Hi Again Guys, New contest for you today: www.OkiTrader.com This site is an ebay/classifieds type site. People post their used items for "Buy, Sell, Trade Your Stuff" type items. What we're wanting: 1. Logo Design. 2. 5 Themes. 3. 1 3x10 inch bumpersticker design. "I Sold My Junk At OkiTrader.com" Logo: $50 It must read "OkinawaTradingPost" as the full name. And "Buy, Sell, Trade Your Stuff" under it. With "OkiTrader.com off to the far right. Logo symbol should be something to do with Okinawa and a cool web 2.0 look and feel. Of course use high polish and styling as we like in our other contests. No flat designs please. It must say "WOW". Brandable. Need vector format when complete. Themes: ($10 ea x 5) May buy more if they're great. (1 design, and just change colorization to make 5 easy variations) Next, we're trying to get your skills into giving us a buttery smooth and polished theme template for the site. We want 5 templates total. Blue, Green, Brown/Beige,Peach/Beige,red/white/beige. Or your own choice. But base them on the look and feel of the below Web 2.0 gradient styles in the links below: Examples: I really like the look and feel of the www.woothemes.com site. So if you copied their different templates like: Their homepage (BLUE) :http://www.woothemes.com/ Their WooTube ThemeGrey) http://www.woothemes.com/demo/?t=23 Their Fresh News Theme: (Brown/Beige) http://www.woothemes.com/demo/?t=6 Their Live Wire Theme Choose Web2-green/grey (Green/Grey): http://www.woothemes.com/demo/?t=5 ElegantThemes.com earthly touch theme (Peach/beige): http://www.elegantthemes.com/preview/EarthlyTouch/ and Bustatheme.com News CMS theme (Red/Blue/Beige): http://wordpress.bustatheme.com/cms/ Those are all themes that I like the colors and gradients. So maybe that helps you understand the elegant/smooth/simple look we're looking for in a theme/logo. These themes will be sold as part of the script we're selling www.PHPSwap.com/demo so we need at least 5 - 10 themes for the package. So we may buy more themes @ $10 ea. if everyone wants to contribute. Just copy the HTML theme from the current www.OkinawaTradingPost.com site and use that as a template. We need: Header Left side Footer Content area will be dynamic. Feel free to change the "Turn This Into This" pictures if you can make that section even better! Redo the text if you want to make it more readable. We may end up paying one person for the logo and several others for the themes, or one person if their entries are the best overall. Thanks all, Looking forward to your submissions. We'll have more contests soon. Regards, Forsh
Hi everyone, Is anyone confused on what we're asking for? Just want to make sure everyone knows we're looking for at least the logos to start with. Themes too if you can. Thanks, Forsh
Hi joidiamonds, Thanks so much for the entry! I love your symbol on the left. Very clean. Keep that. I'm not liking the font for "OkinawaTradingPost" though. Would like something with a straight across font, but keep trying to make it bold and striking. Also, the "Buy, Sell, Trade Your Stuff" , let's make it with capital letters on each word and lowercase for the rest of each word. Plus I'm still thinking a font that isn't so simple would be more interesting. As for the OkiTrader.com on the right. I recommend you also use a capital "O" and "T". and remove the all caps. You also might want to make the .com smaller and keep the OkiTrader big. Everyone, the above a good recommendations for your submissions. Really hoping to see more entries. We've already passed the first day. So only 3 more days left. And I still want to judge themes as well. Regards, Forsh
Everyone, There's only 1 day left and we have almost no submissions. I'm beginning to think I should have split up the contest into two. 1 for the logo, and another for the themes. If we don't get any good submissions for at least the logo, I'll have to close out this contest and start over. So at least post the logo's for the contest in the next 24 hours. We're paying $50 for an awesome logo! Thanks, Forsh
Hey everyone. Thanks so much for submitting some logos. Unfortunately I'm at a loss for time tonight and am supposed to close it out. But I'm not satisfied with the submissions so far. So I'm debating whether to close it out as scheduled, or give it another day... I think I'll close this out though as promised and not announce a winner as so far the submissions are not up to par unfortunately. But I am grateful as always for everyone's contribution. Really. I'll go ahead and open up a new contest tomorrow focusing just on the logo. Then another for the theme's separately. For today's submission feedback: joidiamonds post #5 was the closest to what we're looking for color and layout wise. Just not the fonts. #9 was not so good on the 'okianwa trading post' fonts, but the slogan was good. The okitrader was good but too unnoticeable. Needs to be more prominent, but the font was okay. gesfox: nice and clean shading and color gradients. Not bad at all. The font could be better, and the logo needs to be totally changed. But the theme I'm very interested in. It looks like a potential winner on the theme part. Do you have the whole theme done? If so, please post it or PM it and we can discuss. Please repost into the new contest tomorrow for this with updates. It's appreciated. Regards, Forsh