What we'll build
We've thrown together a couple of home page mock-ups. Though we have in mind what we want for large screens, we've begun with a handheld screen size to force ourselves to focus on the essentials.
You'll notice the following features:
A collapsed responsive navbar with logo
A sliding carousel with four images of featured portfolio items
A single-column layout with three blocks of content, each with a heading, a short paragraph, and a nice big button with an invitation to read further
A footer with social media links
Here is the design mock-up as shown in the following screenshot:
Altogether, this should provide a good introduction to our work. The carousel is tall enough to give a good amount of visual space to our portfolio images. It is not difficult to navigate quickly to the content below, where a user can efficiently scan key options for taking the next step inside. By presenting key links as nice big buttons, we will establish a helpful visual hierarchy for the key action...