The Power of Flower, A Website Project

So today, I want to present to my viewers the new website I'm working on as part of my course's December project. The details of the project is that you can build a website for a local business based on a theme such as a bakery, gym, bike shop, flower shop etc. I chose to build upon a flower shop, which I felt somewhat challenges my design language, being a guy, I don't really know anything about flower shops and what people expect in a flower website. Nonetheless I went along with designing a flower shop's website in the hopes of creating an appropriate website on a theme that's foreign to me. 

The first thing I tried to plan out was my visual direction for the website's theme. My personal design philosophy is built upon designing a website that is modern, simplistic and pleasing to the eye. My first step into implementing this theme was to think of a business name and design its logo. A logo should represent your company and values in a picture, or icon. Shop names such as 'Flower Power', 'FLWR', 'Rose's Florist'  were potential candidates for the flower shop's name, but I ultimately ended up with the name 'Rose Garden'.

The Final Logo

As an extra, here are some scrapped logos that didn't make the cut.

Scrapped Logos

I used my logo as a visual guide to the website's design, you'll see that I have used the rose's peach colour throughout my website. With the logo and color scheme decided, I started to structure my home page. I wasn't sure if my design would captivate the intended audience for flowers, but nonetheless I tried. With a little coding and understanding how to painstakingly format the navigation bar (It took me about an hour to figure out how to properly center the logo *sigh*), I created something that started to look like an inviting home page. 

Main content on the home page

I know what you're thinking already, "You really couldn't name the owner anything other than Rose Bloomberg!?"

I couldn't resist.

Honestly, it's still a work in progress but I'd like to think I made a somewhat decent attempt at an actual flower shop. Overall, I'm proud of what I've managed to do, though there are still many changes to be made, such as a working map and a newsletter section, perhaps even more pages.

I was a little interested in seeing how different/similar it would look like to my previous website projects. I wanted to see if maybe I've improved drastically from my last attempts, or even see if my designs share a similar theme or contrasting designs.

What do you guys think, which one do you prefer? Feel free to leave a comment on your opinions. Personally, I think maybe it's time I go for a different design theme, I'd really like to do more to my websites and go even further beyond what I know. 

Anyway, I just wanted to share and document some of my progress as a web design student. If you managed tune in to my ramblings till the end, I just want to say thanks for reading!

Till next time!