Planning - Mock up of Website

For the website homepage I am designing, I have decided to technically have two homepages.

The first is simply an image on a solid black background. The image is of a dog kennel sitting on a tuft of grass, with a bone and a drinking bowl next to it. This will be drawn in a slightly abstract cartoon style by hand, and I plan to use the rotoscope technique of painting over it to give it a cartoon effect. There will be a small sign saying "Home" on it, and this image will act as a link to the second, main home page. Colour wise, I am going to have it on a solid black background, with vibrant green grass, light brown/wooden colour for the kennel, and a vibrant pink roof. These colours will add to the cartoon style I want to become associated with DoBERMAN, plus the use of pink and black is something else that will become associated with DoBERMAN, and I plan to use it on the second page, and the CD cover. Hopefully, I can get the activation of the link to trigger the sound of a dog barking as the user is navigated to the next page, linking with the idea of a dog associated with DoBERMAN.

The second page will again be a solid black background. In the bottom right will be the DoBERMAN 'logo', a patch of vibrant pink spray paint, with DoBERMAN present in a stencil like form. This is also on the bottom right of the front cover of the CD case, continuing the theme.

This second page is very basic, in the bottom left is the character I have decided to create for DoBERMAN, a man with a dogs head, inspired by the image on DoBERMAN's myspace. This character will also be in cartoon form, and will also be incorporated into the CD covers. This character will be clutching at a fistful of leads, again associating with dogs, that are attached to the five links on the page, that lead to 'Gallery', 'About DoBERMAN', 'Videography', 'E-mail Service', and 'Music'. At a later date, I may use play on words to associate these with dogs again. The links will again be images, perhaps using the words and drawing them into dog like shapes attached to the leads.