Who is the Client and what is the Project?...
The community garden at the Waterworks in North Belfast is managed by Grow and is set in an area of a Belfast City Council park. This public space has seen its fair share of trouble over the years and is protected by a huge fence. We have helped to turn this into a shared space, what was once a neglected corner of a park, a no mans land, has become an area where 20 or so gardeners from a wide variety of backgrounds and circumstances have come together to grow vegetable and their communities.Siobhan would like a website to promote the organisation and the work they do, to make people aware and encourage others to get involved.
What does the Client want?...
The client would like 7/8 main pages. These include:
- Home - banner, brief introduction to site, latest posts from the news blogs, live feeds from BBC Gardeners weather or another appropriate site
- About - text about what Grow is, does and hopes to achieve in the future. To include Grows mission statement
- Learn - A paragraph on various sections about what 'ingredients' a key to a Grow community garden.
- The Gardens - A google map with markers pointing out the 2 gardens, Grow Waterworks community garden and Grow Helen's Bay community garden.
- Get Involved - Wants this content split in to two pages. Why? and How? page.
- Support - It's possible that these two sections could be folded into other pages, e.g. donate on the home page, Volunteer on the About page or get involved page. Would like a link to page on http://www.justgiving.com/
- News - Monthly blog entries labelled 'Monthly Newsletter' - this page will in essence be a category archive for blog posts in the 'news' category. Latest headline(s) to appear on the front page.
- Contact us - How to contact the team bringing you 'GrowOther elements to include are:
- Sponsors links
- Links to social networking site such as Facebook
- Donate button
- Preferably run using Wordpress
Some sites which the client has expressed she likes are as below.
Reasons for liking these sites include simple design, strict 4 colour code, image dominant and aesthetically friendly sites.
Over the next week I will be working on logo designs, wire frames, colour schemes and mock ups.
Logo Design
I used Photoshop and Illustrator to create my logo designs. I based them on elements of gardening and developed the hands as flower idea as I really liked it. I also liked the single 'G' instead of using 'Grow Community Gardens' all the time so I have also developed that concept...
My favourite is the butterfly/hands as I think it combines the elements of gardening and community really well. I think this is the one I will use for the site.
