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A Wedding in Gaucho Country
http://www.cibelee.com

Category:
Recreation & Travel

Created by:
Liz maryland Hiraldo in 2002

Rating:
8.8 (2 votes)

Date added:
Sep 11th, 2002

Last updated:
Sep 12th, 2002

Tools Used:
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, HTML 4.0 Reference, Macromedia HomeSite, WS_FTP Pro

Designer's words:
Lee Newman & Cibele Vieira were getting married in Brazil and needed a website that would allow them to provide timely information to their guests, who were located worldwide. They were having a typical "gaucho" wedding and wanted to reflect that theme in the site's design. The site needed to be partially bi-lingual, with select sections in Portuguese so that their Brazilian guests would be able to access the information as well.

They also wanted the site to act as a wedding planning tool, allowing them to collect RSVP and travel itineraries from their guests.

In keeping with the "gaucho" theme that Lee & Cibele wanted to emphasize, rich earth tone colors were chosen for the site design. Images showing typical gaucho activities, which would also be part of the wedding ceremony, were selected to highlight the theme

The site was developed using ASP which allowed us to display select information depending on the language selected by the user. Portuguese and English navs were developed that were simple and easy to read for less savvy computer users.

A separate, persistent nav was developed so that users could easily RSVP, send their itineraries or email Lee & Cibele. A database storing this information was recommended but Lee wanted a simpler solution. The RSVP and itinerary forms sent an email to Lee, Cibele and their wedding planner with the data attached as a comma-separated value (CSV) file. This data was then imported into Excel to aid with wedding planning.

Our comments:
As far as personal wedding web sites go, this one could easily be the best both in terms of design and content. Warm earth tones of the design is enriched with the vibrant colors of gaucho country photos which are nicely placed around the content. Authentic fonts compatible with the theme complete the experience. If you are wondering how a personal wedding site can have six different language options, try clicking on them to see what happens.

--Aycan

DI (11) - Mar 2nd, 2003 Presentation  10 Graphics  9 Usability  10 Technical  7 Personal Slant  9 Overall 9.0 I think is absolutely neccesary to turn the web human, real. And this website is a very good example on how to do that. I think everybody on the web would like to celebrate with this cool people their marriage... but most important, would celebrate the fact that a very personal webpage could turn that professional and well done. The color selection is so warm and also so basic... it takes us to the land, to the sun, to the weather. And the information is so intimate and usefull. They worried about giving us info about the place they choose to get married... they loved the place and give us the chace to love it too... wow! they really made me want to go to the wedding.... bad luck, I wasn't invited! Very cool and very human work!!!