Website Examples

For my website, I want to create a simplistic style that represents my magazine and also represents my target audience. In order to follow the needs of my desired audience, I needed to look at previously made websites that are made and sent out to the age category mirroring my own magazine.

One thing that I have noticed whilst looking at pre-existing websites is that they all follow a similar colour palette of; blue, white, black and grey. Therefore this has become a common convention I will use whilst creating the website for my surfing magazine. Another convention I will follow is the similar layout patterns, the style of these websites are blocks of images with overlaying text on top of the images. The images are made up of waves and sunset beach settings which makes the viewer want to read the magazine to get a better understanding of these. As a result of this I am going to attempt to take similar images to these and add them to the homepage of my website. 

The website for Carve has a different style as it has one background image and then the centre is filled with the actual website content. I like this concept because it gives the website a subverted look to the regular design of a typical website. My magazine has a subverted style to it as it's different to a regular regional magazine, therefore I may use aspects of this design in my own. The main thing I would change if I were to use this as a reference whilst designing mine would be the colour of the background image, however the content of this website seems to match the image so it could be one of the colours from their colour palette.


This is my favourite out of the 3 website examples I have looked at, The colour palette is similar to the one I have chosen for my own website. I will also insert a image montage at the top of my website and then lay out the rest of the content I have in little boxes just as Surf girl have done. I may replace the background image with a surf inspired pattern/design, however I will decide this once I have the content of my website is in place so that I can see what work best with the style of my magazine and website.