Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Bailey & Hutchings P.C.

I started my web design interests while working on a Multimedia minor at Utah State University, I took a beginning HTML class that focused on writing the code, We did one large project in this course, I chose to do a project for a law firm owned by a friend of mine. Though this project was never used by the law firm, I thought I would post some pictures of it here.

Welcome to Bailey and Hutchings, P.C. This is the front page that was created for this customer, in developing this page I ran into a few issues. 
  1. I was required to have a movie on the page, This movie feels like it was stuck in and not well developed into the page.
  2. When you get to this page, you are not given a clear idea of what it is or where you are going. 
If I were to redo this site, I would give this site some adjustment, I would make the navigation bar with a drop down menu, I would add bread crumbs to the site as well as adding information to the front page such as different blog postings or a mission statement.



I feel as though this page worked better than the last page did on this site, This page is more clear as to what this site is, The color scheme stays consistent, the layout of the site has changed but not dramatically, it helps to lead and guide the viewer to read the history of this law firm.


This page is the primary reason that I would add a drop down menu on this web site, this page is unnecessary and with a small law firm of only two lawyers seems to be out of place, what this page communicates could as easily be communicated by placing their names in the drop down tab under attorneys with both attorneys listed. The following pages show the bio's for each attorney.

The following two pages are bio pages for each of the lawyers with this law firm. These pages get the information out to the public, and gives a good professional resume of what these lawyers have accomplished in their education and career's.


This page had some list's made on it, The two lists side by side did not line up, that became a frustration in my coding, it seemed what ever I tried I could not get this page to line up the way I wanted it to.

A basic Unordered list was used on this page to show different clients that Bailey & Hutchings do work for, Most of them are well known clients in the are they do work for. The work on the page was basic, but it communicated strength for those looking for a law firm to handle their work.

This last page is designed to be a contact page for the law firm, The viewer of the page could fill out a form or they could contact the firm on the options listed on the right hand side of the page. One of the issues that kept this project from being used by Bailey and Hutchings was finding an affordable place to host this page that had scripts set up that would allow us to use this form once the page left the Utah State University Servers.

Although there are things on this page I would do different, For my first page I fill that is was a success, as I continue my journey through the world of the web I look forward to opportunities to take what I learned on this project and grow with other projects.

In the Beginning

Though I have not been a blogger, I was asked to run a blog for my Interface Design Class this semester; I guess this may turn me into a blogger. This blog will focus on work that I have done, as well as work that is in progress. I may also post some examples of objects, designs, or websites that I like, I hope that this blog will be an interactive blog and that readers will leave their comments and suggestions and that we can debate different issues. I hope to post a few times per week, but overall, we will have to see how I do at this hobby.