Web Site Plan

Web Site Name

Musings of the Reluctant Gentleman

URL

reluctantgentleman.com

Purpose

The purpose of this site is to allow me to share my personal creative works with friends and family and random strangers that may stumble upon this site. I will post Artwork, creative writing, Photography, Videos, and Music that I have created and I can notify friends and families of new additions or they can periodically browse to see what I have been up to.

Target Audience

The main target audience for this web site are my family and personal friends that have expressed interest in my creative works. Secondary audience will be aquaintences that may have expressed a passing interest and I will gtive them the URL to use at their discretion. Tertiary audience will be random strangers that stumble upon my works by means of search engines or third party links.

Scenario

As bishop Brother Wall exercises his perogative to assign himself to give a talk on Christmas. He would like to share that talk with his family that is widely scattered across the country and beyond. He also writes a Christmas story that he shares with his family. Brother Wall posts the talk and his story to his web site "reluctantgentleman.com" He posts on face book that they are available. The farflung family members are able to access the talks and the stories on their iPads and read them in their family home evening.

Asset List

Written Works - one index page and one page per story, talk, or essay. Longer works one page per chapter.

• essays - 5 essays
• short stories - 3 short stories
• talks - 6 talks
• Longer works - none currently

Visual Arts - One index page and one page per photo, Video, or other artwork.

• Photographs - 9+ currently
• Videos - 1 video
• Graphic Arts - 5 Designs
• Art - nothing to include at this time

music - index page with play links 1-3 songs currently under consideration

Style Guide

Basic Layout
Responsive layout with maximum page width of 960 pixels. All pages will be identical except for the content area. Design to express elegant simplicity and with minimal features and ornamentation. Background areas will use subtle textures in muted colors

Background Textures
Body : background.jpg 300 px square seamless
header : seamlesstexture1_500.jpg 500 px square seamless
Content Area : handmadepaper.jpg 300 px square seamless

Typography
color: all text to be black navigation text will switch to white on roll-over to contrast background color change
Headings: Google web font 'Great Vibes'
Text: Google web font 'Short Stack'

Colors
Navigation area background: #f8faef
Navigation color: #ffffff
Navigation color on rollover: #F4D180