Web Page Button Designs

Web Page Button Designs

Towards the end of my last blog post I suggested ways which I could improve my web page designs. In this post I am analysing my experimentations with button designs. Experimenting with buttons instead of a navigation bar is one of the ways which I intended to improve my work. My suggesting was adding the same roses from my logo design to the words on the navigation bar to create small buttons instead.

These were my results. I believe the roses add a sense of recognisability. However, when my logo will be above the navigation bar on the left this extra design may be unnecessary. The flowers make the other four corners of the buttons more pointy, which was not intended and I don't think it has worked very well. The simple capitalised font is plain and doesn't reflect my company ethos at all. So, perhaps, experimenting with font is another important experiment also.


After gathering feedback from various tutors and peers, I have decided not to use these button designs, because they are too complex for the simple web page I intend to design/create. Also, I found that many people said that the buttons were too varied, and it seemed like I didn't know what I wanted to get out of them.


   "The roses are very dainty, but then you have these sharp edges that poke out, and a plain font which uses capitals, which is very alerting. What are you trying to get from these?"

I heard these points many times, but one of my peers who wishes not to be named mentioned all of them. I use the same font on the navigation bar, so I feel that my next experiment should be to experiment with fonts.