UCSB HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE WEBSITE
Working closely with department chair Peter Sturman and committee members Richard Wittman, Jeanette Favrot Petersen, Miriam Wattles, and Laurie Monahan, I executed a thorough redesign of the official History of Art and Architecture website. The design answered the demands that the site be modern, attractive, easy to navigate and update, complient with web standards, and representative of a diverse group of scholars. As with all of my design work, I emphasized clear information design, sophisticated spatial structure, and sound technical implementation. Throughout the site, a grid influenced by the Swiss graphic designer Josef Müller-Brockman regulates the images and typographic material. The grid lines highlight the site's module: one line of twelve point sans-serif type. As much as possible, all of the vertical spacing is a multiple of this number. Horizontally, each of the images and blocks of type are multiples of a 117 pixel module. On most browsers this spacing is pixel-perfect; elements that reappear on similar pages do not shift at all when loaded. Technically, the site balances CSS positioning with "minimal" tables. Using only one table for the site enables easy visual editing in commercial web authoring tools.
