subcategory page

-in this, there's no way to see what subcategory page you're on. 

I tried adding a title, which works well but also looks a little odd.

then I tried fading the text on all the other ones, which, I think works better in terms of the existing menu - I also made the images bigger so they're not so squashes together and the text doesn't cover the text on most of the book covers. I decided that this image ratio looks better on all the pages (though on mobile it still changes) 

the only thing with this, is that i need somewhere to put the bookmark for bookmarking a subcategory - it would work well next to the white title space in the previous image.

but, i tried it in the menu item? which i think works pretty well. in the smaller responsive layout it somewhat looks like it might be attached to the 'upcoming releases' item but i think because it's only showing the bookmark of the page you're on, it's probably fine.

submenu

I initially did the submenu like this

mobile:

but thought it might be too much for this one? (actually i had them all in one column on mobile first)

 so I tried putting it in another dropdown; but decided that is too many; it will proabably look better like it does above.

excepr that the top menu just saying categories and being pink is vague, and not as obvious about what page you're on, I made it do this on each page:

and just to make the hierarchy slightly different, and so news doesn't look so repeated: 

wireframes, html prototypes, design tests

updated wireframes for invision + new book club and submission page

more wireframes + invision

Invision links: Web | Mobile 

I tried to sort all of the 'get involved' stuff which was quite scattered into one page

and made a new releases page

Also thought about putting the text over the images, like in the carosel? this would save space and look neater - especially when some titles are one line of text and some are three, if they're all on the images it doesn't matter

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trying some mobile layouts:

a simpler version - not sure if the text is too big here though?

updated wireframes

added only one top story so that subcategories are more visible above fold

made related stories more specific - as in, related to a particular aspect

made an identities category page - unlike the news one, there's only one top story and one other headline under each thing - because there are 20 subcategories rather than 5.

I cut down some of the subcategories a little, so that there are fewer and also grouped some (graphic novel/comics) that are very similar. this also means they're all multiples of five (news is four, but can have a popular column to fill the gap)

another version of the long article.

Wireframes for interim

Home

Nav menu / just showing the subcategories

(the sections starting 'disability' and 'asexual' are the sub-subcategories of indentities)

People category

News category

Upcoming Releases subcategory

Two example articles