The Design
Without a footer, the template now only has two sections. The top section is our hero banner, displaying the website name and navbar underneath. The bottom section is the content area, where each page is rendered.
The phonograph in the top-left was a tiny media player. Browsers by default block autoplaying media, so I suggested to remove it as it probably won't get used much.
This is the design as shown in the Photoshop Document, certain layers were extracted to use as assets in the website.
Development
Using Laravel, no longer did I have to use GET methods to parse URLs. Laravel has a built-in Routing API which allowed me to create prettier links.
http://example.com/logout
http://example.com/register
http://example.com/download
There's a bunch of tools you can use to make a fully functional website. Sending emails, running SQL statements, validating forms, hiding exceptions and it's PHP so you can basically burn the world.
There's also a really neat templating tool which made managing the front-end a lot easier. You can create a master template and extend it to other pages. Create components and include them in multiple layouts.
You can apply middlware to certain pages to process information before the page renders.
For example, grouping pages that need authentication and applying the authentication validation middlware to that group. This makes managing access to pages a lot easier.
Although it was a simple website, it's needless to say that Laravel is a powerful tool for creating websites and this was a good introduction to it.
Above is a screenshot of the website homew page in it's final revision before opening to production, in a development environment.