Exercise 1

Favourite Web Page

Web site:
FIMS
Reasons:

While no longer cutting edge, this and all the Western sites are good examples of a website with a lot of content.

The full width hero slideshow with content columns below is still a fairly common website design. It was an attempt to utilized large screens while still having a site that would look good on a mobile device. The previous FIMS template used a fixed width for all content which did not require high resolution images. The new design requires large high resolution images which do look much better.

Design Elements:
  • hero slideshow (full width)
  • menu bar with dropdowns
  • header and footer
  • breadcrumbs
  • 3-column body with right and left sidebars