New Website Design Proofs

Hi Blake,

I could be flexible for a call tomorrow morning if that works. I'm not sure about Bonnie yet and also if you wanted to have us both on the call at the same time, or individually. If at the same time, we'd have to arrange for a screen share and time that works for both. I would like to do something tomorrow so that I can show something Wednesday at the Parish Council meeting.

I have tried to email and call the CincinnaitiRefined but have not gotten a response from them yet. I will stay on that.

Phil

Blake,

Is there any chance that we can get on a call with screen share near 1:30 PM today? Sorry for the short notice, but i have been tied up this morning several things.

Thanks,

Phil

Yes I will be present! Can't wait to see

Thanks, I will be on call.

Hi Blake,

The link works fine and thanks for including the images. I will let you know how things go this evening.

Thanks for all you help on this!

Phil

Blake,

It seems to be working now, just really slow, but perhaps it my connection.

Please disregard last message.

Thanks,

Phil

Hi Blake,

I demonstrated the look of the website to parish council last night and have approval to move forward, but I do have some considerations that have come out of followup discussions. I would like you to review the and consider adjustments where they make sense and can be accomplished.

Here are the items:

* The navigation overall looks good. We would like to see a different look on the dropdown menu where you have alternating blue items. I got the sense that maybe we are relying too heavily on blue and need to back off of that somewhat. Also, the alternating dark and light blue could get annoying on a longer dropdown list. I can find some suggested examples of something else if needed
* Home Page Primary photo -- in our initial design discussion of the wire frame, we had discussed that this would be a 3 stage carousel with a 4-5 second delay to the next sequence. Is that still the plan and not shown in this prototype? We just want to make sure the ability if built in the working website.
* There is a feeling that there is a little too much blue. We are in favor of bringing the brown back in the logo and perhaps considering using that in the site. We'd be interested in seeing what the site might look like with perhaps that brown in either the Titles or the buttons, but not both. I don't want to put you to too much trouble, but perhaps we could see the home page with a couple versions of this to determine how to move forward.
* on the six-gang photo/nav section on the home page, we'd like to see those with some padding between them or border. We feel the 3 at the bottom stand apart more. When you look at the mobile view, the six really run together because there is also not padding. Pehaps some subtle border would work. Again if he had a couple renderings of this on the home page, I think we could make a quick decision
* Lastly, some were questioning the fonts - the text could have more of a presence, maybe a little bigger, or use all caps somewhere, italics, as well as a complementary text in the mix. Something to give dimension & movement. I realize we can change fonts on our own, but if we could tweak these going in before it is created, it would make it smoother going forward.

Let us know if you have questions and if you could take a stab at some of these adjustments.

Thanks. If you need to discuss, I could be available for a call today.

Phil

Hi Blake,

I wanted to reach out to check on the status of the buildout of the St. Francis de Sales website. I know it is not technically in the design phase now, but I have not heard any sort of update on the status of the site. Is there a timeline that has been set or is in progress towards the build of the site?

Thanks,

Phil