web design for innovative youth services in a local government

“CoSY Net” - (which stands for City of Swan Youth Net)

The City of Swan’s youth team work directly with young people, their families, and regional youth services to create opportunity and change for youth in the community.

We work in collaboration, think outside the box, and are constantly inspired by the fresh intelligence and creativity of young people.

The aims of the website are to:
 Create an online presence for City’s youth services
 Celebrate local youth cultures / talents
 be engaging! - get feedback and opinions from young people
 Share information about youth services + opportunities

 Young people - 11 to 25 yo
 Parents
 Organizations offering services to young people (eg youth centres) in the community

We are developing a new website to be a highly engaging, media rich portal that will contain / link to all kinds of youth information - including events, videos, competitions, forums, advice, blogs etc

We want a design that is youth friendly, creative and vibrant. To keep it fresh we want to be able to change images or update any flash elements regularly, so the design needs to allow for this.

We are looking for ideas for:

HOME PAGE
Which we’d like some moving imagery either through flash animation or a scrolling image gallery to make the page come alive. We’ve highlighted 2 OPTIONS for designers in “Attachment #1 - More Details”

SUB PAGE
This will be used for all subpages and will have a mixed use purpose to display either/a combination of text, images, video, or flash animation provided by our team. Hence, any background artwork on these pages shouldn’t upstage the content.

WEBSITE LOGO
We want a logo design for the website which brands each page
* Website logo is based around the words - “CoSY Net” (stands for City of Swan Youth Net)

The content, images and menus will be driven by a content managed system + will need to allow for varied page length, any number of sub pages and the use of a style sheet to govern the style, layout and font of the pages.

Please read the attachments!!
• “Attachment #1 - More Details” (full brief)
• wire diagrams
• etc