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Zee's redesign
After some weeks planning, designing and developing, the Zee's new website is online. Much more than simply a redesign, we have changed everything, mainly because we needed to use a good and scalable CMS and create a blog for the company.
Zee's old site
With all these requirements, Drupal became our only choice. Firstly because we've been using it for a while so it wouldn't take us too much time learning and developing for it, giving us more time to spend on the design matters.
Our goal for the site was basically create a very simple interface using few images and put all of our efforts on typography, colors and CSS.
Listed below some sites and blogs inspired us.
We also followed some ideas we learned from some excellent podcasts such as the @media presentations: How to be a Creative Sponge, Diabolical Design: The Devil is in the Details, Five Simple Steps to Better Typography and Interface Design Juggling.
Among all of those lessons, we were able to apply on this project the very useful Jason Santa Maria's tip of creating a sort of wireframe, but with the real content, where we could play with the typography elements without worrying about colors and images.
With the site well structured we started applying some colors and testing different combinations.
Wireframe and first color scheme
Although our first idea was to use a light background, we chose to keep it dark. That decision is explained because we have always used dark backgrounds, and wouldn't be a wise move to change our identity so drastically. Visit the site at http://zee.com.br
Final Version
About the author
My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through Abduzeedo. Also you can follow me on Twitter or my personal site at http://fabiosasso.com.
6 Comments
I wish i can learn to be as stylish and artistic as you. But then artistic skills are inborn.
U people have got a cool site in here.. and a nice contrasting shades.! (I dint know tht black can create this much wonders)
Great job! The site looks very nice. :) I especially like the colors and typography.
The site seems to function very good too.
Parabéns, o Redesign ficou demais!
E outra esses sites inspirados, são favoritos meus também.
Além de utilizar o Coda, acho ele o melhor editor html e para CSS uso o CSSEdit.
Abraço
Well done .Nice works with drupal
Definitely this new version seems better, looks more professional, more minimalistic, great choose of colors, although i still think that it can be improved... congrats!!!
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