Hello all, I'll keep it simple. I want to redesign the following site: I tried to do it myself, but the result was not so good, so I decided to start a contest about it. Some info: This is a blog with hardcoded content in the frontpage. It has several posts (articles), a store (click on Visit Our Store on the menu bar in the header) that sells products from Amazon and every product has its own page (you can see those pages by clicking on one of the images in the image rorator in the homepage). I want you to redesign the Homepage, the Store Page, and create a page for the Product Pages. You don't have to worry about Post pages or any other pages on the site. More specifically: Homepage You have to redesign the whole page and you can do whatever you want to it - nothing on that page needs to remain the same, other than the text content. I would like that content to remain in the frontpage, but I don't want it to take up so much room. At the moment, the frontpage of the site is 1000px wide and I would like it to stay at that. However, due to the hardcoded content (the text), the height of the homepage goes up to about 3600px and I think that this is too much. We could potentially try to put the content in fixed height frames with a scrollbar or anything else you can come up with. I would like you to use some nice text to make a simple logo for the site which (I think) should go at the very top on the left hand side, while on the right, we could have some text for support. Below that, I would like some sort of a menu bar which should emphasize that there is a store on the site. I don't want to give you any specifics about the menu bar other than the fact that you are free to use Dropdown boxes. In other words, the menu bar could have as little as 2 items in it - 1 for the Store and 1 for Articles (which would dropdown to show like 5 article titles). At the moment, I am using this image rotator, but it doesn't seem to perform well so you are free to change it to whatever you like. The bottom line is that I want the homepage to have some sort of a header with a logo (or nice font for the title), some more text with our support email, and a menu bar. Then I would also like some sort of a showcase for selected products, and some way to display the content that has been hardcoded on the page. Feel free to add ANYTHING to those (maybe a sidebar?) and completely redesign EVERYTHING on there. Store Page At the moment, the store page basically displays all the Product Categories (7 categories total) and 3 products from each category. You can do anything you think is best for this page. I would just like the Product Categories to be clearly visible (unlike how they are at the moment), and some of the products from each category to be showing (that's not a requirement but I think that it's a good idea). Product Page The Product Pages have the following elements: a) Product Picture b) Pricing Info (+ link to buy the product from Amazon) c) Product Info and details d) 3 Customer Reviews I would like all those elements to remain there, but please redisign the whole page to make it look more attractive than it looks now. Actually, the product pages don't look bad in my opinion, but there is definitely a lot of room for improvement and I would like to see something completely different because they are not performing well. -------------------------------------------------------- The bottom line is that the site is not performing well in general and I think that this is because it doesn't look good. In other words, I will do whatever I can to change it, but that does NOT mean that I will choose an "ok" design just to change it. I want something good, or I will just try to redesign it myself (and I am not really a designer as you can tell) hehe.. I am only showing you the site so that you can get an idea of what it's about - not so that you can maintain its current feel or look. I want something new, something modern, something that will convert to sales so try to be MARKETEER first and then a DESIGNER! I want you to send me a PSD with all the layers so that I can code it. This contest will end in no more than 7 days - whether a winner has been chosen or not. However, if I see a design that is good, then I will definitely offer advice and extend the deadline so that I can choose a winner. I WANT to find a winner - but I will not compromise to do so GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE! If you have any questions - ask away!
It's an image so that the URL doesn't get crawled. It currently has spaces in between of the words. Take those spaces out and it will work. Please confirm to make sure. Thank you!
Does anybody else have this problem? If so, I would recommend that you use a proxy to visit the site as I am discussing with my host to figure out if there is a problem. The site is loading fine for me. A small note here - if you do use a proxy, then chances are that the image rotator will not be displayed properly (since it's using Javascript and proxies have it disabled). Because of that, the images from the rotator will show up as a list (one below the other). So, just in case that happens, here is how the image rotator actually looks like at the moment with JS turned on which is the norm... I don't like it - so please try to change it - but I am just showing it to you so that you can know how it looks.
Thank you for your entry D-Zel. In order to help you and others understand what I need, I would like to describe the basic elements of the design that you sent me. First of all, you used a nice background for the whole site. You kept the header and the menu bar elements as they are now, but you changed their look. Below that, you kept the image rotator as is, but you removed the small images below it and replaced those with a right and left arrow to see more products. Below that, you kept the content of the page as is, but you styled it with a nicer frame. In general, I thought that your entry was ok, but too similar to the original one. I want you to change the menu elements or at least change their structure, so that the "Visit our store" link is highlighted more. I want you to forget about the current image rotator - change it completely.. You can make it only show 1 item at a time instead of 2.. you can even take it out altogether if you want.. I want you to forget about the current layout of the content... We can even make everything fit into 4 small frames (like the ones you created below the larger horizontal one) - that's not a requirement, but if we maintain the current layout of the content, then the height of the page will be very large and I don't think that this is good. Overall, while I think that your entry was not bad, it looks a lot like the current site which is not performing, and the whole reason we are doing this is to try and get a complete redesign in an effort to make it outperform the current one. FOR ALL: You don't have to design all 3 pages right away. Start with the homepage, post it here for my comments, and then once we are good with that, proceed to the other 2 pages which will use many elements from the homepage.
Please post the entry here so that I can comment on it and everyone can benefit from the comments Also, many of you told me that you cannot access the site. I still can't figure out why that is happening, but I don't want to delay the contest until I find out so You can find a screenshots of the site here: Homepage Store page Product page Here is how I want to display the content for the homepage to save room: Again, you don't have to do all 3 - start with the home so that I can see your idea, and then, if approved, proceed to the other pages!
Nice job Kain! I like it but I still think it needs some work. I really like the frame that you used for the content with the tabs like I asked you to do. I don't like the social media icons to be at the top left - that's traditionally where the logo should go, so in our case, you should put the title of the site there. Also, and that goes for everyone, take out the Google +1 since it doesn't belong in the same category as those... it's more like the Like FB button or the Tweet for twitter... The social media icons normally go right after the top part where the logo would be. In this case, I would put the title where you put the social media icons, I would make the green space (where the title is now) less height and you could maybe put the social media inside that green space or even above it to the right. I would also put some text in that green space so that it doesn't look empty... maybe something like the text "Browse through.......".. Use Lorem ipsum for now, and I can change it later to something else. I would like the theme to have some sort of a menu bar at the top - put 3 elements in it: Shop (with dropdown) | Why Choose Us? | Read (with dropdown) Also, the store has 7 categories - you put 6. Any way you could fit one more in there nicely? If it's easier for you, then we could include an 8th category for items on sale so that it's an even number of categories. Actually, let's definitely do 8 categories for the store widget. What do you think? The tab for the content is great - leave it like that. The footer should have 4 links in it: About Us | Why Choose Us | Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use That's all I can think of
Much better! I still think that the social media icons take too much space and they are displayed in a very dominant spot which is not right... Maybe you could put smaller icons and put them at the bottom of the page? Not sure what would look the best, but I don't want them so visible because they are not the main goal.. The goal is to sell the products so we should have as many products as possible. I like that you used the 3 elements for the menu bar like I told you, but I don't like how they are all at the right hand side - it makes the middle and the left hand side seem empty... Maybe put them in the middle or something like that? I don't like how the pics in the "visit our store" section are the same as the pics in the article. I would like the ones in the store section to have a different frame, maybe with a larger bottom border so that we can put their names in there. And they should be bigger than the pics used in the content. Maybe take the image slider out and use that whole area to make it for the store? Then use the 8 categories like I told you and make them big enough to almost cover the whole area (with their frames). 2 rows with 4 images each, and each image would lead to a product category. I would maybe try adding the slider and a few product images in the middle... We could make the whole first area be for the visit our store part, and then have a middle area (between the "visit our store/latest products" and the "content frame")... with the image rotator that will say "Best Sellers" instead of "Latest Products" on the left hand side and some small product images on the right hand side section! Yes, that may work nicely. One very important thing that I just noticed is that your design is about 850px wide if I am not mistaken - the site should be 1000px wide. Overall, I like it and if you make the changes that I mentioned then there is a good chance that your design will be the winner. I want to wait a little longer to see if there are any more submission, but I think that with the changes I mentioned I will be happy with the end result. Let me rephrase. I will give it a few more days to see if anything else GOOD comes up, and if it doesn't you will be selected as the winner Good job and I can't wait to see the changed design!
The Whole design is about 1000px wide. , I resized the images and uploaded, But for your reference see the original size below I made the changes that u mentioned. http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/9629/futonbedsalehomepage2.jpg
Another Try with black color, Hope You Like http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/6282/futonbedsalehomepage3.jpg
Very nice!! You got the idea and I really like it. Maybe we'll change the colors a little bit... maybe a combination of black AND green, but this is looking very good! Again, I want to wait for one or two more days for any more submissions, but you are in the lead at the moment! Now, we could wait to see if any more submissions come in in the next 1-2 days, but while we are waiting, you could try the following to perfect the design: Try and combine green AND black in the design... They are both great colors for e-commerce and I really like that you chose those two for your design, so putting a little bit of both should look great! Try and make the title a little better... We don't need a full blown logo, but something a little nicer would be great. Try putting the menu bar back to the left hand side, and add Home as the first tab. Change "Visit Our Store" to "Featured Categories". For the image slider and the products in the middle section, switch the titles... Best Sellers should be the image slider, and Latest Products should be the products. In the slider, instead of "click here", try "more info". Mention prices below the product images for the product section. You put 10 small images, now try to also put List Price: $XXX and Our Price: $XXX. Or maybe you can try and just put the price of the products like this: Instead of "New".. Maybe... I really like the green "New" so I would like to have to that too... Not sure about that.. Work a little bit on the footer. The copyright is in the page, while it should be in the footer in my opinion. Maybe you can do this: 3 lines: 1st) About...... (centered) 2nd) Follow us on FB TW YT (centered) 3rd) Copyright (on the right) These are all small details.. The bottom line is that your design looks great and you will be chosen if we don't have anything new and better in the next couple of days! Yes ardianet... I will wait for 1-2 more days. Will you have your design ready by then?
i have changed the color combinations and corrections which u told, Hope You like it, Let me know your feedback http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/258/futonbedsalehomepagefin.jpg