Objective
What did I want?
Before I went to formally ideate the website I decided to create a short list of the things I wanted the site to be, definitively--this served to clear my thoughts and clarify the "mission" at hand. The three main points, from there, was "forum for public use, something fun/exciting, and youthful but clean/functional."
As well, I wrote the following at that time what would become the mission statement of the site:
"Solarcap is a website to promote awareness and the potential of solar power in everyday life."
From there, I began sketching out ideas for how I wanted the grid to work. I chose, ultimately, the simplest option (or, the last one shown here) from a variety of such.