better get a move on

with all these briefs, shouldn't i?

the first one i will natter on about is the all important solar century D&AD brief.
which is important.



here's the home page for the current solar century site, which is very nicely laid out with nice yellows and greens which give the feeling of being eco-friendly without being too garish. And although this page alone contains quite a bit of information, it all fits on the screen without needing to scroll (i am on my imac but i think it would be fine on my ye olde pc too) thanks to the clever layout witch utilizes the space even with that massive image in the middle. there's drop down boxes which usually annoy the crap out of me but here they're well designed and work well, and up in the corner along with the language options (international company maybe?) there's a little news feed, which seems quite unbiased, at the moment i can see the headline "Sun setting on solar power?", there's also news links about the governments current nuclear energy plans.

the news links then link you to a page inside the site, with the article or a link to it. these pages are quite different to the rest of the site, there's a lot of text based information and links, and while the serif grey text is nice as it feels nice and soft, it can be quite hard to read on the light grey background (speaking as a person with wonky eyes.) (see below)



the rest of the site is more like the homepage, using sans-serif on a whiter background which is much easier to read, although there are some graphics that look like they've been made in microsoft word. (that was a bit harsh of me but you can see what i mean below)