Final Inspirations

These are the inspirations, colours and fonts that I have used in the final development of my banner and buttons, and the general layout as a whole.

Banner and Buttons

This is the banner for the website. I went with historical based writing, with a parchment based background. The wax seal in the background was made from the D and A of Dunfermline Abbey and was molded together with Bevel and Emboss in Adobe Photoshop.





Above are the main buttons for the website. I have tried to keep the theme of historical and old that went into the banner.





To keep in the colour scheme, I decided to make rollover images on the buttons, so as to make them red when the mouse passes over them. The red used is from the wax seal on the banner.

Final Website Design

Above is the finalised website design. The information inside this is very basic, but will be in full when creating the website.

Fonts

These are a taste of some of the fonts I am thinking of using in my website. The idea is to make the website feel like it's historical, but at the same time still be able to read by all who look at the website.

Websites I like the look of.

This is the current Dunfermline Abbey website. Im not over keen on the colour scheme, as I feel they make the website feel cold and uninviting. I also feel that they have put way to much information into the website. I understand that the Abbey is still working, but some of the information they have on here is the sort of thing that you can find out about when you visit. This website has given me the opportunity to show how my website is not going to look.




This is the Edinburgh Dungeon website. As you would expect the website has a dark, horror feeling to it, as it is for a dungeon after all. The colours help the feeling of grotty and dungeony - reds, blacks and freens, with lighting effects. This website shows how colours and lighting and images can help make the feel of the website.



This is the Evanescence website. When live and not a screen dump the images in the middle scroll to another and then to another. Also the font at the bottom is technicoloured, which I like, its very different. The reason I put this one up is that i'm hoping to use the scroll images movement that this website has.



This is th website for Warwick Castle. I am a bit ambivilent about this website to be honest. I like that they have used strong, bright colours to show the current sales and offers, but the rest of it I feel is a bit bland, just white with blue writing and their logo. I wouldn't want to make my site like this.



This is Spartan Games website. I do not like it at all. Its not very eye catching at all. Its main background is white, with a burgandy red border. I think the only thing I sort of like is the banner, but I think that could have been done better also.

Images of Dunfermline Abbey

This image is of Dunfermline Abbeys Gate. I do like how the photographer took the picture, but unfortunately the weather wasn't particularly great so the colours are alot more duller and dreary.




This picture is of Dunfermline Abbey. By the looks of the picture, this photographer took this from the Glen, which is next door to the Abbey. I like this picture, as unlike the picture before, its a nice day and there is alot more colour. However I do feel it looks a bit to bright, maybe due to hazy sunshine or from the camera itself.



I like how this photographer has incorparated angles in this photo, and also how they have captured the colour of the sky and the abbey. Really nice photo. Might have been better without the tree right in front of the abbey, but unfortunately can't be helped.



I do like this photo, so much so I have tried to do a similar version with my own photographs. I like the angle, with the gravestones in the front. The only thing i'm not sure on is the brightness. Again it could be the fact it was one of those once in a blue moon lovely sunny days or the brightness from the camera. Other then that a lovely photo.

Research On Dunfermline Abbey

Dunfermline Abbey is as a Church of Scotland Parish Church located in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. In 2002 the congregation had 806 members. The minister (since 1991) is the Reverend Alastair Jessamine. The church occupies the site of the ancient chancel and transepts of a large medieval Benedictine abbey, which was sacked in 1560 during the Scottish Reformation and permitted to fall into disrepair. Part of the old abbey church continued in use at that time and some parts of the abbey infrastructure still remain to this day. Dunfermline Abbey is one of Scotland's most important cultural sites.

Early history

The abbey was founded in 1128 by King David I of Scotland, but the monastic establishment was based on an earlier foundation dating back to the reign of King Máel Coluim mac Donnchada (i.e. "Malcolm III" or "Malcolm Canmore", r. 1058-93). It was administered by the Abbot of Dunfermline, its first being Geoffrey of Canterbury, former prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, the Kent religious house that probably supplied Dunfermline's first Benedictine monks. At the peak of its power it controlled four burghs, three courts of regality and a large portfolio of lands from Moray in the north down into Berwickshire.

In the decades after its foundation the abbey gained power and wealth with the dedication of 26 altars gifted by individuals and guilds and was a lucrative centre of pilgrimage after Dunfermline became a centre for the well-promoted cult of St Margaret (Malcolm's wife and David's mother), from whom the monastery later claimed foundation and for which an earlier foundation charter was fabricated. The foundations of the earliest church (the Church of the Holy Trinity) are under the present superb Romanesque nave built in the 12th century.

During the winter of 1303 the court of Edward I of England was held in the abbey, and on his departure next year most of the buildings were burned.

Later history

During the Scottish Reformation, the abbey church was sacked in March 1560. Some parts of the abbey infrastructure still remain, principally the vast refectory and rooms over the gatehouse which was part of the former city wall. The nave was also spared and it was repaired in 1570 by Robert Drummond of Carnock. It served as the parish church till the 19th century, and now forms the vestibule of a new church. This edifice, in the Perpendicular style, opened for public worship in 1821, occupies the site of the ancient chancel and transepts, though differing in style and proportions from the original structure. Also of the monastery there still remains the south wall of the refectory, with a fine window. Next to the abbey is the ruin of Dunfermline Palace, also part of the original abbey complex and connected to it via the gatehouse.

Dunfermline Abbey, one of Scotland's most important cultural sites, has received more of Scotland’s royal dead than any other place in the kingdom, excepting Iona. One of the most notable non-royal names to be associated with the abbey is the northern renaissance poet, Robert Henryson. The tomb of Saint Margaret and Malcolm Canmore, within the ruined walls of the Lady chapel, was restored and enclosed by command of Queen Victoria.

Today

The current church building (on the site of the old Abbey's choir) remains in use as a Parish Church in the Church of Scotland, still with the name Dunfermline Abbey. In 2002 the congregation had 806 members. The minister (since 1991) is the Reverend Alastair Jessamine.

Architecture

The old building was a fine example of simple and massive Norman, as the nave testifies, and has a beautiful doorway in its west front. Another rich Norman doorway was exposed in the south wall in 1903, when masons were cutting a site for the memorial to the soldiers who had fallen in the Second Boer War. A new site was found for this monument in order that the ancient and beautiful entrance might be preserved. The venerable structure is maintained publicly, and private munificence has provided several stained-glass windows.

Famous Births, Marriages, & Burials

• Saint Margaret of Scotland was buried here in 1093; on 19 June 1250 following her Canonization her remains were disinterred and placed in a reliquary at the high altar. Her husband Malcolm's remains were also disinterred, and buried next to Margaret.

• Both Duncan II of Scotland 1094, and his wife Ethelreda, were buried here

• Donald III of Scotland 1099

• Edgar of Scotland was buried here in 1107

• Both Alexander I of Scotland 1124, and his queen Sybilla de Normandy 1122, were buried here

• David I of Scotland was buried here (1153) along with his queen Maud, Countess of Huntingdon (1130)

• Malcolm IV of Scotland was buried here in 1165

• Alexander III of Scotland (1286), was buried here, with his first wife Margaret of England (1275) and their sons David of Scotland (1281) and Alexander of Scotland (1284)

• Elizabeth de Burgh, wife of Robert I of Scotland, was buried here in 1327

• Robert the Bruce was buried, in 1329, in the choir, now the site of the present parish church. Bruce’s heart rests in Melrose, but his bones lie in Dunfermline Abbey, where (after the discovery of the skeleton in 1818) they were reinterred with fitting pomp below the pulpit of the New church. In 1891 the pulpit was moved back and a monumental brass inserted in the floor to indicate the royal vault.

• Matilda of Scotland, daughter of Robert I of Scotland, was buried here in 1353

• Anabella Drummond, wife of Robert III and mother of James I was buried here in 1401

• Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany was buried here in 1420

• Birthplace, in 1600, of Charles I, the last British monarch born in Scotland.

• William Schaw, Master of Work to the Crown of Scotland, was buried here in 1602: his tomb can still be seen.

• David Lindsay, 1st Lord Balcarres, son of John Lindsay of Balcarres, Lord Menmuir and father of Alexander Lindsay, 1st Earl of Balcarres, was married here in 1611

• Bishop James Bruce

source of information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunfermline_Abbey

Layout 3 for Dunfermline Website

This is idea 3 for the layout of my website. I like this version as it just the buttons to guide the user to the required information they are looking for, instead on a mountain of information that they may not be looking for. The banner will include a picture of the abbey, but also i'm planning on having a image in the background of the abbey, so as not to make the website to bland and clinical. This is the idea I will be going with, as there are not many websites out there with this sort of layout.

Layout 2 for Dunfermline Abbey Website.

I came up with this layout as it is easy to read and understand. The layout is not to crowded. I did however decide to go with this layout as there are many websites out in the internet world that are the same. My plan for my website is to make it look as different as possible so the general public would remember it.

Layout 1 for Dunfermline Abbey Website

This is idea layout one for the Dunfermline Website I am buidling. With this one I felt it was spaced out enough, for the plan is not to make it to busy and cluttered. I decided not to go with this layout because there are a number of websites on the internet using the same layout. I want to make my website different in every way.

Dunfermline Abbey Pictures Part 3