Diana took all of the promotional pictures for the website.

Jeremy wanted people to be able to listen to samples of his music. I placed the music player in the footer so it would remain visible and be very noticeable.

I wanted the comments to be seen on the front page, so I incorporated a scrolling view of the comments at the bottom of each post.

The most important aspect of the site for Grace is the blog. They use their blog to post any announcements or upcoming events, and they wanted people to be easily notified of new blogs on the front page of the site. (After Katrina, the people of Grace stayed in communication with each other on a forum that someone had previously set up. They wanted to be able to use the blog as a communication tool in case anything happens again.)

I placed a blog excerpt next to the navigation so it could not be missed.

I did not want the blog or other pages to lose the focus on the people.

For the staff page we still wanted to emphasis that they were real, likable, normal people. We did a little photo shoot, and these were the pics we choose to represent the staff.

Diana wanted a clean layout for her blog. I put together a blog that did not have a lot going on on the sides so that the attention was focused on her pictures.

For her gallery view I used slideshow pro, which allowed me to create a very picture focused slideshow that could also go full screen.

We knew she would be blogging a lot of very important events, and people would probably want to search for specific pictures. I implemented thumbnails in the search results that would help the user find exactly what they were looking for.