New Website Design | Colors

Hi Blake,

Thank you for your work on this - I think you did a great job running with the ideas we discussed. It helped to have a second set of options to compare to and contrast with. We looked at all of the design features as a team and here is what we've decided on (for all of these things, however, please use your best design judgement to implement them or let us know if they are not recommended):

- We'd like to go with the arch-shaped version of the stained glass, not the diamond shaped one. We would like to crop it just a bit shorter, as it was feeling a little too tall - see attached sample as an example.

- We'd like to go with a Navy/Blue/Stone color scheme, see attached for an example. I just used the color picker and paint can in MS paint, so this is very rough and unprofessional looking, but it gives an idea (also, any little stray colors around images, inside letters, etc. are not intentional, they are just a byproduct of using the fill feature). Please polish it as you see fit as you make the changes - for example, it doesn't have to be these exact colors, although I just used the color picker to copy the existing colors that were already provided in various options. Note our only concern is that the stone color doesn't go into the shade that almost has a rose undertone to it. We do like the colors in these placements on the page, however, and then would duplicate them across all the sub-pages in the same way as well.

- Logo, fonts, and layouts are good.

- The places where there is text with a box around it, like "join us" "aug 18th" "more bulletins" on the home page and "Mass at St Augustine" etc. on the sub page, seem inconsistent in coloring/style - some are white, some are brown, some have a different color text inside vs for the box, etc. Can we unify those in style whenever they appear?

- Can we unify the text colors to one simple scheme? We are nervous that if we have too many choices in the overall template it will open the door to too many different admin users getting "creative" down the road... (something we had mentioned to Sam, not sure if it's in any notes anywhere so I will include just for your reference - my apologies if it's a repetition for you - we have some staff who get crazy with new colors, shapes, fonts, etc. so we want a really tight design template that we can lock down and keep consistent no matter who is editing and adding on the website). So, essentially eliminating the places where there are some brown text (aug. 18 box, etc.), yellowish text (menu words in sub-header under church name and the footer, etc.) and so on. Our thoughts were to have the page color scheme be the text color scheme, navy and white or stone, with perhaps the blue as a sparing accent or else maybe a charcoal, no other accent colors (except the typical practice of making some link text blue to indicate it is interactive, etc.). What are your thoughts/recommendations?

- Change the color behind the events/news section and any similar sections on the sub-pages to be the stone color (see attached for example), but add the texture overlay that you had in the last mock-up using a slightly darker stone color over top (we really liked that addition!). Jaci is wondering if there is a less "feminine" more "substantial" overlay pattern option?

- We like the way the photos on the Worship page have a border around them - can we do this everywhere a photo is used (including the events/news homepage area, etc.)? Perhaps just set a standard of thin Navy border around any photos on light backgrounds and stone or white border around any on a dark background? Or whatever you recommend, just something consistent.

- For the header image on the sub pages, we like the blurred focus - is there a way to also make it a little more transparent/translucent?

Fr. will return from the Holy Land this weekend; when we get a rendering with these updates we can show it to him for final approval and go from there.

Thanks,
Rebecca

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Hi Blake,

Thanks for your work on this, it's looking good!

Just a couple final tweaks that we can see:

The "overlay" on the stone colored area behind news/events doesn't stand out to me very much - should that be darker/more pronounced? I thought it was more noticeable when it was first drafted on the blue and really gave it a polished touch, I'd love to see it a little more noticeable here to give it that same polished feel.

Fr wants the navy bar in the header to be taller/a thicker navy space where the text of the church names and logo are, and the text of the church names and logo size to be increased slightly, to give that area more importance to draw the eye. He also thought the heading text size of news, events, etc. could be increased, but we also understand there could be a consistency issue with font size/etc. if we mess around with that here and there, so whatever your best judgement is based on your experience.

Finally, Jaci was thinking the main page stained glass image looked slightly rotated - see her notes on the attached image.

Then I think we are all set.

Thanks,
Rebecca

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