Design idea
So I’ve been given more or less carte blanche to design something for the Wisconsin Historical Society’s new intranet. Make it pretty, he said.
Well. Um. Okay. So not a web designer.
But I like some of the sites I see that use a photo affixed to the viewport as background, so I went cruising for suitable photos. I should learn not to do this. I could get lost for years in all the cool photos they’ve got.
Finally I stopped myself. What I need, I said, are pictures of and from the buildings. That only makes sense. One click back to the home page, one click to “About Us,” and boom, there’s the link I want, to pictures of the very impressive WHS building. (Hear me, Jim? The navigation’s grand.)
Oh, but then I find a link to pure unadulterated inspiration. What a rush. Seventeen different flavors of design “bingo!” I purely love mosaics, I purely love printer’s marks—and the colors on these ought to be fantastic as grounding for a web page.
Knowing me, I won’t be able to make it work. Still. I love a good moment of inspiration.