Recently I was appointed president of Iranian Cultural Club at Purdue University. One of the things I had planned was changing the club’s website to make it more functional and user friendly. I have the new design up and running now.
Fixed width design has been my choice for most of my better websites. In one of my previous posts, I explained why fixed width is better than fluid width in most cases.
I divided the homepage up into smaller boxes to give each box topic more importance and make it easier for the viewers to read. I personally don’t like to read long lines that go across the whole page.
I put random pictures on every page. The whole goal of the website is to represent the Iranian Club and get others involved and pictures are a good way to create interest in potential new members.
For the picture gallery section I used Jalbum software. It is easy to use and doesn’t require database. I simply created the album on my computer and uploaded the whole thing online as a web album – no coding involved. The only downside is that the gallery’s design doesn’t match the rest of the website’s design.
I will in future add a feed to it that would be updated for every event and meeting that we have. I’m not sure how to actually do that, so I will have to read about it and learn. I will also write a post about it here too.
A better approach might be adding a blog to it, but blog requires installing and database use which I’m not sure if the University allows.
