November 3

I've been thinking about my final project and I have an idea for what site I would like to redesign. The only problem is it isn't one of my original websites from the beginning of the semester. Looking at those websites, I don't think I'd really want to redesign any of them. Two of the five I didn't really like.

One, gocomics.com I guess I could do if I absolutely had to do one from that class, although I have no proposals for it as of yet. The reason I really don't want to do that site is that it's largely a paysite, and since I don't subscribe to it, I have a limited knowledge of the workings of the website as it is. If that makes sense. Also, I just really have no desire to do it.

The second site I hated was pinupgirlclothing.com. At first I really wanted to redesign this site to see if I could make it seem less trashy (because a lot of their stuff really isn't). But I feel like I would just end up using yahoo shops or something similar and it wouldn't be much of a challenge.

What I do want to redesign is WWE.com. Being as big a franchise as it is, it's not surprising that they have a ton of information and it's all crammed into the homepage. I find it to be cluttered and uneccessary. I wanted to find a way to simplify it and make it easier to navigate through the plethora of information.

My first idea is an attempt to come up with a much different type of navigation. I thought of using a picture of a championship belt and using the different parts as links to the different parts of the site. My only concern is that the way I see it now, it only allows for about four or five link which I'm afraid might be too simplistic unless I find a way to really simplify the organization of information.

My other idea, and the one I like a lot more at this point, is somewhat based off the idea of Zen Garden. The user would be able to choose a layout based on the wrestler of their choice. I've yet to decide if only the background image and colour scheme would change or the entire layout. I'm thinking about doing away with the entire left hand navigation that exists on the current site and using only the top nav bar (which would remain largely the same). This nav bar would be a sort of constant between all the different layouts you could choose. I'm also toying with the idea of being able to move around and reorganize the different blocks of information on the site, much like blogger. Although I haven't yet put much thought into the design of secondary pages - like articles - I think they would fit into the scheme of the user's choice so that no matter where he goes on the site, it's always "his own."