Another Education website

On the beginning of the new year I’ve small research about the education websites because one of my personal project was connected to academic area so I wanted to know what I’ve to use and how for this type of the website. Get some inspiration from .net and around. In my research all around i completely forget to have a look to the BATH SPA University website.

http://www.bathspampa.com/

The Float Design - studio based in Bath made a new visual for music and performing arts website. This web site is a well designed as well as good coding supplied. Is important to say that on the website their authors applied all contemporary rules that they can use.

Strong layout with right side navigation which is more concentrate to content than just nice visual preparing good place for floating information. As you see there is a for horizontal levels which present different part of the web site. Technical navigation with search form closely connected to main navigation which forming basic object for navigation. Main body for information have fixed size but it’s prepare for basically for different layouts and finally footer as the end of every single page.

News are well formed and prepare for good readability - from the GUI perspective they used right approach for presenting this part of the site.

Video Section - have one big plus and one small minus. The plus is right side navigation for choose video that you wanted to watch as well as good size of the video frame. Minus can be that you can not see more videos in categories as is performance, music, experimental etc. Maybe this part of the website will be updated when they’ll have more video content.

On this screen you’ll se how they play with empty space - it’s a really good work.

Finally - best part of the website I dear say is photo gallery. Well good organized and formated as well as good coded. This is the expectation what the University have to looking at. If this professional approach we’ll see in other European Universities the students live and access to the information will be much more easier than it is now.