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So, I'm a design student at Sunderland University currently studying Advertising and Design. I've always been my own person; outspoken and loud... speak my mind! I'm like marmite; either like me or not =/ form your own opinion. When it comes to interests, my life revolves around Films/TV; am a big geek in that department! Creativity is the foundation of my inspiration and work...

Research: Grid Layouts..

Whilst researching website to anaylse; I was asked to consider the layout for each I came across such as the use of colour, graphics, typography and if poosbile "discern the underlying 'grid' for each page". The below images show which websites I considered and attempted to discern the grid for.

Lanikai Properties


Lankai Properties is an American real estate website I came across in my research and I thought the layout and overall tone of the site worked really well with both a mixture of successful features in terms of graphics and information. The grid is quite simple to work out but if I were creating a similar styled website I believe it would be difficult to place each feature correctly in proportion.

Imdb




















The Internet Movie Database (imdb) is frequently used by me who is particularly interested in the latest film releases and who will be starring in that film. So, I believe this website works well because it is very informative and well structured. As you can see from the screenprint; the website 'grid' is easy to duplicate and is neatly contained which works better than the previous example.


rightmove





Similarly to the previous website; the rightmove 'grid' is also well structured and easy to determine where each individual container would go and how you would produce this in Dreamweaver etc. The only criticism I would make is the bottom section(s) as it might be hard to seperate, and I may possibly alter the information into two boxes instead of the current layout.

google


















Google is he most well-known website both here and internationally; so it is commonly used but from the underlying 'grid' what is not working is all the sections for various information. However, there is an option available, where if you dont want to view certain info. then you can delete individual sections to just show your specfic interests. The gird is not too complicated but maybe to harsh on the eye for where to look for viewers preferences.