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:

Here is the design mockup 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 a next step inside. By presenting key links as nice big buttons, we will establish helpful visual hierarchy for the key action items, and we will ensure that visitors do not have problems because of fat fingers.

For ease of maintenance, we've elected to have only two major breakpoints in this design. We'll use the single-column layout for screen sizes narrower than 768px. Then, we'll shift to a three-column layout:

You'll note the following features in the mock-up for tablets and higher versions:

The color scheme is fairly simple: shades of gray, plus a golden-green color for links and highlights.

With these design goals in mind, we'll proceed to get our content in place.