well it needs to be either clean and simple but with a little something (like some logothing in the url) or fancy, but when done fancy it needs to be very professionaly done and keeping in mind the theme of the forum which is somewhat serious. spbx' design goes into the right direction but i don't like the font and it's missing something.
I will close this contest now. Thanks for your entries. It's not what I'm looking for but I have designed a header myself. I was hoping for something that I like more than what I can do myself. I have not copied anyones design nor idea as you can see for yourself. spbx please pm me your paypal info and I will you send you the $25 for efforts and most liking design. Thanks everyone. Martin
dude, please next time wait little more.. people in DP are smart ones.. they would find out what u need!
You posted your contest to be 48 hrs. You should have at least waited the 48 hrs. You didn't even wait 24! Designers DO have to come online and see your thread before they can actually enter anything. We DO sleep. And the better designs always take longer and come in towards the end. Just a suggestion for future reference. Thank you for giving him the $25 though.
In fact I don't think it's right what the CH did: First gave us some ideas, then changed the template size, then said something like "There are no illustrators like one time" - He never said he wanted an illustration (the CH edited the thread but I have the mail) ... bah!!!!
I shouldnt have given feedback at all because in most cases it will not make a difference anyway. Also, Yogem, the feedback I gave on your design, saying that I dont like the font, was totally ignored by you. Also you saying is pointless. I gave all my suggestions in my opening post. Now it should be up to the designer to come up with a concept. I ended this contest early because I saw that the designs submitted where in my opinion nowhere even close to what I had hoped for and I had come up with something I like better myself meanwhile. I just don't want to waste my or anyones time nor offend anyone, that is why I have edited my last posting. I have still paid $25 to the one design where the designer understood the concept and what I was looking for. However I don't need this hospitality and will probably not run another contest any day soon.
dont have any reaction now but just this " " we all charge this to ecperience... Dp designers could give what you want for sure.. i have take time to do another better hoping could take your wants.. but it already ends, without 48 hour timespan.. but its done so i must learn from this ch.. thanks for this.
These people are correct. You most likely WOULD have gotten what you wanted if you just waited it out. Less then 24 hours is an INCREDIBLY small time span for design entries. Especially when your dealing with a worldwide website. I just found it odd that u called our posts bad hospitality. I was simply trying to help by giving you future advice. A $100 contest would have gotten you a very amazing design if you just left it open for the right period of time. Instead you closed it earlier and made it very likely that not many people will enter your next contests, if you ever run any more.
I doubt that I would have gotten what I wanted since all the designs did not even come remotely close to what I had in mind. Giving more feedback or waiting for resubmitted designs would have been just a waste of time for me and the designers. I became disapointed with this contest really fast, so I launched photoshop myself and made a design that I like more than all the entries in this thread. I don't see what you complain about. Me ending this thread early? Noone of the designers who had submitted their designs would have won anyway, judging from their submitted designs. Should I have waited for the 48 hours to pass, have people submit more work, when in the end I would not have chosen a winning design anyway? Noone got hurt here, instead I even paid for efforts what is probably the average contest prize these days anyway. Have fun.