Logo and web site design for The Northern
Virginia Chorale, of Springfield, Virginia.
www.northernvirginiachorale.org
The
Springfield Chorale wanted their website redesign to have a fun, light-hearted
look and feel, so I used a purple, green, and black color palette
complemented by musical note images on each page, with an elegant
script font for the headers to convey the feeling of their musical
organization. Each page uses a different musical note, and smaller
versions of the notes are depicted next to each navigation element,
as well. The Chorale's logo incorporates a large, green G Clef on
a wavy music bar, inside of a circle. The first draft of the logo
was created in the purple and green colors, then modified to a sage
and dark green, to provide some color contrast on the site. It was
also coordinated to work with the Chorale's holiday concert brochure
colors.
Each
page of the site has been created in a user-friendly fashion, with
text that is well formatted and easy to read, and information links
that stand out through different background colors, and which also
coordinate with the overall site colors. In addition, I have centered
the website layout on the page, to make it more compatible with different
size browsers and screen resolutions.
Technologies used: This
website was created with Dreamweaver, and the graphics for
the site with Adobe Photoshop. The logo
was created with Adobe Illustrator, (including hand-tracing
the G Clef to make it a vector/scalable
graphic.) I used InDesign to format three documents which were
made into printable PDF files for their ticket order purchase
form, as well as their Donation letter and business advertising purchase
form.
The
site navigation uses a hand-coded Cascading Style Sheet implemented
on each page, and incorporates a rollover highlight background color,
as well as a different visited color. Two different fonts are specified
in the navigation and will display as Tempus Sans ITC with Tahoma
or Arial, or just as Tahoma or Arial, depending on the fonts that
are installed on the viewer's computer.
The
site also has downloadable music clips of some of the Chorale's performances
that play on the homepage, and also under the Recordings section
links.
