isis-design

This is just a playground for some experimenting with different designs for ISIS2.

Some goals include:

• first impression that suggests web x.0 instead of web 1997
• stronger University of Iowa branding
• making basic navigation more accessible
• cleaning up the HTML, moving to HTML5/CSS - away from table/font/junk...
• playing nice with publication standards, fonts, colors when possible
• dealing with different sized browser layouts?

Each design has examples of the following pages:

• login page
• home page
• student records index page
• new admissions profile
• student handbook
• new courses page

Some comments about the different designs:

Design1:

• Full bar, icon defines ISIS, greeting outside bar
• gradient profile boxes

Design2:

• Full bar, simplified ISIS icon (bigger), University of Iowa text pushed right
• button based navbar mouse overs

Design3:

• similar to 2, reduced nav bar, pushed up and to the right of the icon (smaller header)

Design4:

• similar to 3, but a liquid design with just a min-width on the main content area

Design5:

• similar to 4, but black on gold instead of gold on black