DVGBC Website Redesign Concepts

Getting involved with the Philadelphia DVGBC network through the Student Design Competition committee and the EGB (Emerging Green Builders), it was only a matter of time until this happened. Being so involved with everything else, I've been trying to avoid it at all costs.

From the onset, I've noticed that the DVGBC website was poorly designed. The branding, color palette and everything has been successfully and professionally established by BarberGale, but the website is a separate beast. Visually it has the branding nailed down, but programmatically, it appears to be an off-the-shelf blogging CMS, and it is now restricting the growth of the site. Recently, the DVGBC has made comments that they are looking to revamp it by putting a team together to address the issues.

The DVGBC Marketing committee has created a Website Redesign sub-committee. Now this is just getting ridiculous, committees within committees, that's like a Turducken! I know, and you know what have I done? Yes - I have gladly stepped up and am now a member of the team, creating mockups for the page layouts and offering technical advice… To tell you the truth I feel this is probably my best fit within the organization because of my background. I'm not quite ready to leave it all behind.

Here is the design I came up with for the Homepage layout after extensive and organized feedback from the rest of the team. It's the first of dozens of pages that need to have their structure addressed, and hopefully this will get us started on the right foot.