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Any ideas for good site layout? - Twin-Skies - 11-30-2008
Here's the gist:
I'm currently employed as a marketing/research assistant at a start-up company that will be covering news regarding the green energy business - solar energy, wind energy, biofuels, etc.
Aside from pulling together our list of newsletters for info, I've been tasked with coming up with ideas for a good layout for our site, which will be launching this February 2009.
A lot of you guys are way more net-savvy than I am, so I was wondering if you might be able to recommend any sites that you feel have a good layout we can study.
We need something professional-looking ( our clients will be mostly business-type), yet easy to read and use.
Any ideas for widgets and other add-ons (RSS) will be most welcome.
Thanks
RE: Any ideas for good site layout? - Grim - 12-01-2008
Is the site going to be updated frequently? Or is it going to be a bit more static, with links to the contents instead?
If it's the former, I'd suggest a blog-like layout, much like these:
http://www.revolutiontwo.com/demo/elements.html (good for text + images)
http://5thirtyone.com/ (good for plain text)
If it's the latter, these come to mind as good launchpads:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
http://www.opendns.com/