My aim this weekend is to get a decent start on the layout of my web page template(s). I've got the site architecture already sorted, it's a pretty simple setup. I'm getting seriously stumped on how I want the pages themselves set out.
Seth Godin posted this blog on Friday on "Things to ask before you redo your website", which seemed very apt timewise. According to a passing reference in this blog, it seems the holy grail of commercial home page design is the Apple website. The main focus of the blog though is on the questions you SHOULD be asking yourself, rather than comparing apples with oranges (no pun intended).
I'd really recommend reading through them - a lot of his questions don't relate to what I'm doing but they're still worth asking and a couple of them were really helpful in starting to work out what it's all for.
Reference
Godin, Seth (2009) http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/09/things-to-ask-before-you-redo-your-website.html viewed 12:15pm 15-Sep-09
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I find the best thing to do is to trawl the web and gather lots of examples of things you like and don't like about other sites - be they positioning of navigation, colours, image galleries etc. Seeing things in context makes a big difference and helps kick start the creative juices. Here is another blog I found which might be inspirational - http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/2008-design-trends/
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