Website: Choosing a layout (Option 1)

In the following posts we have designed 3 possible layouts for our website. There are many pros and cons between them all so it was a hard decision to choose a professional layout that is also simple and easy to follow

Option 1

The first layout was the original design which was influenced of an existing website. It allows a lot of articles to be displayed on a set size compared to the other layouts, and still show advertisement at the top and middle of the page.

However, if you imagine the design with all the photos and text entered website layout is cramming all the articles around the advertisement and it becomes a bit cluttered, coming off to the viewer as unprofessional.
On the other hand, this is compensated by the easy and clean layout of the title and logo alongside the main article photo at the top of the page that brings some sort of control to the page.

It also has an easy navigation bar down the right hand side of the design which would link to the different articles or categories of stories. It also features the site map down at the footer of the design with extra links, but this could collide with the navigation bar and the viewer will have too many links to choose from.