2nd Session - Layout

We looked at several online ezines, including artreview.com, DazedDigital.com, Wonderland, Icon, GQ.com and Nylon.

We decided that we liked the more centralised layouts, with a discreet right-hand nav bar, a page title across the top, and a slim main nav underneath. On the individual pages, we decided that we wanted page headers underneath the main nav, but not extending completely across the page (not going above the right-hand nav.

To summarise, we're looking at an inverted-L layout.

We also decided that we wanted to keep the layout fairly simple, avoid making it too 'busy' as this becomes hard to look at and detracts from the kind of atmosphere we wanted from the site.

When looking at the individual main pages (i.e. arts homepage, literature homepage) we decided to have the articles separated by rules and discreet grey lines, though having 2-4 articles displayed per horizontal table. An example of this layout can be seen on DazedDigital.com.

When looking at actual content pages, we'll keep the right nav layout, have centralised content running down the page with a text-wrapped thumbnail gallery at the top right, and underneath have a user generated area with comments. The gallery can be clicked on to expand onto it's own page.