Contest 125*125 Banner needed for home poker product - $20

Requirements: It is for a product called PokerDIY Tourney Manager. It’s a separate product written by PokerDIY.com (note, I am not advertising this website!). It is a free, down loadable poker application that is used at LIVE poker games (home poker games or big poker tourneys) to time the blinds and generally manage the game.

PTM runs in the browser online or you can download it free to your windows/mac etc. and run it offline (this is a key feature). Please stick to the same color theme as the PokerDIY.com logo/site – dark red and blue/navy with white/.

Main requirements:

• Clean and simple (no random background images or stock photos)
• Clear, bold text that is easy to read and highlights the product

For example -I love the banners on the right of this site – all very clean and simple - notice how the ones with simple bold text standout more than the others - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/16/a-guide-to-google-analytics-and-useful-tools/

If you look at that page, a couple of them really stand out nicely with clean, bold text.

I don’t know exactly how it should look (that’s your job) – but there is a series of screenshots on the product page - http://www.pokerdiy.com/poker-blinds-timer.aspx - one of the main features is that it can be customized easily – perhaps it should flick through a few different images to demonstrate this? Whatever you think is best.

Here is the key set of information and a call to action at end:
1. Free Poker Blind Timer
2. Simple, free and runs on any computer
3. Get PokerDIY Tourney Manager now!

It should be an animated gif but not too flashy or distracting and under 30kb large.

If no entries are of a high-enough quality then I will not award a prize - please mark your images as samples so that they can not be used to ensure this is fair. (I have to state this as I have had some half-hearted attempts in the past where there are not enough contestants).

Winner too provide high-quality .PSD and .gif files and will be paid via PayPal. More banners and work for same product if I can find the right designer!

 

Awesome requirements Honest & straightforward. I'm in

 

I'm too

 

Feedback appreciated!

 

@oxygen: Thats good - some feedback: Make the word "PokerDIY" smaller and the words "Tourney Manager" bigger (Tourney Manager is the main part of the product name and the key focus). Like the colors. Only thing missing was the screenshot of the application, but not sure where you could get that in!

Can you try using the following text:

1) Free Blind Timer (note: it's blind, not blinds)
2. Simple, free and runs on any computer (or "runs offline")
3. Get it now!

One thing to point out - although I like this banner - I am not usually a fan of a lot of animation (ie. the scrolling frames from left to right - I prefer as little movement as possible). It looks good here though...

 

thank u for the feedback. i'm just a little worried about the text being too small if it's too long. let me give it a shot though. I'll post my edit in another few mins.

cheers

 

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@technoguy: Thanks for your entry: I like the yellow and white writing - it just needs to slow down a LOT. Please also try it with the Yellow removed on the Click Here - it is enough to just have this in white. - I don't like the website logo (The application is the focus here, not the website) - instead of that I would have put the top bit of a PTM screenshot perhaps.

Also - the writing at the top looks a bit cluttered - maybe drop the word "POKER" and space Blind Timer a little so that it looks like separate words

@All - in the example above, the Click Here is a great call to action, but perhaps this could be dropped and "Get it Free" could be used instead of these words (to make one less frame and keep it simple).

 

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I like this banner a lot: it still looks a bit cluttered with all the different fonts and sizes - I would prefer "PokerDIY Tourney Manager" to all be the same size (PokerDIY can be smaller) - Can you change the "Get PokerDIY Tourney Manager Now" to: "Rebuys, Blinds, Chip Calculator" (or just "chip calc") and slow down the animation a LOT - like 5 seconds. If some one is interested in the ad they will watch it and click on it - if it is too flashy they'll just ignore it like every other poker ad.

Thanks for the entry - it's good..

 

My Entry:

 

My try

 

@all - thanks for the entries, please always make PokerDIY and "Tourney Manager" the same size/font. The product name is "PokerDIY Tourney Manager".

Also - I really want to see some screenshots from the product page integrated into the design somehow... I'll comment on each entry now.

 

@Mr.LeGeNd: Looks good, but a bit too complex - maybe try remove the "Get it now" completely and space out the product name a bit. Also don't like the chip image (PTM is written by PokerDIY.com but I dont want anything to do with the website on it - this is an advert for the PTM product only). Please slow the animation down a LOT (to like 5 seconds).

@gamelord: Interesting colors and simple - I like that (not too much motion). I would make the bottom 4 words the same size font, also the small text could be increased a bit too).

@good designer: Try take the emphasis off "PokerDIY" and make "PokerDIY Tourney Manager" all the same font/size. I don't think italics work well in banner ads. I think I prefer the bottom blue entry (orange actually does look good too!) but no flashing text please.

@all - Don't forget - this is an ad for "PokerDIY Tourney Manager" which is the product name and nothing to do with the website. Not too much animation/motion/flashing stuff and as few fonts and different text sizes as possible.

Thanks for the entries!

 

Revisions:

 

I did the changes you asked:

 

thanx for feedback
this one less animated