Webpage Design- part 1

For my final project I decided to create a website for the business that my mom and I started together about a year and a half ago. I’m hoping the initial concepts will develop into an actual website so I am multitasking! Yet again, I think I bit off more than I can chew but I am going to give it my all and just hope for the best.

First page will look like this: 

I have great ideas for this webpage, but for my final project I will keep it simple. I want each page to be clear cut and straight forward. No one wants to buy products from a website that they don't understand. 

The first page will have simple swirly designs for the "tabs" to each page within the site. I also want to put a short blurb in there about what we are going with this business. 

For those of you who are curious- my mom makes handmade- one of a kind jewelry, homemade all natural soaps and lotions, and hand painted gift boxes. I am a photographer so that will be incorporated as well. We donate a large portion of all profits to different charities. 

The “about our mission” tab will have a picture of my mom and I with corresponding messages from each of us. I may add our general mission statement as well. The pictures will have a border that is a separate image placed behind the pictures to give it some pzazz.

 The “products” tab will go to a page titled Projects and Musings which will have separate links within for each category of item that they viewer can purchase. It will be broken into two sections- one for my mom’s items and one for mine. I really haven’t started doing much for my items yet, but I will eventually.

Now, I am still not sure if I want to include the next tab- “Events Photo Gallery”- or not. I feel like it would be a nice thing to show off so that people can inquire about having us come to their event or home party, but I don’t know if it is really necessary or not. But the next tab is very important in my eyes. Viewers need to know that we donate a large portion of profits to charity and what I’d really like to do someday is to show the charities that we have donated to, an image associated with that charity, the link to the organization’s page, then the actual dollar amount that we have donated so far. I also want to include a piece to let people know that they can suggest future charities as well.

 The last tab will be the “Contact Us” page. This will be the fun, quirky page as far as layout. I am going to come up with a cool way to show Kim and PL’s contact information, separately as well as the general format for getting a message to viewers. I also want to include a link to our facebook page so people can go “like” us on facebook.

I did include an idea of what I want the check-out cart to look like as well. It will be very similar to Amazon’s check out page. CLEAR CUT! Then customers can chose to pay with card on our secure site, or pay with PayPal.  

FEEDBACK APPRECIATED! Like I said, I am really hoping to lay the ground work for a functioning website that we can use for our business, so I could really use some help from as many people as possible! Thanks everyone :-)