$150 website for a dog hotel - 48h - Payment via paypal

vinpkl, your's is really cool!

 

Hello,

I have finished my entry. I've changed the grass, edited the dog and lowered the size of the sidebar. Also the content is added as well. I haven't added the info about all of your services but it will be added if I win. It's up to you to decide if you want my design or not


(click for full size quality)

EDIT: If you need, I can do the coding as well (for a small extra fee of course)

Regards.

 

here is another revised design with slightly small dog on top center.

feedback appreciated.

http://i27.tinypic.com/wv3fwx.jpg



vineet

 

My revised entry
thx,

http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/6124/dogssitev7copy.jpg

 

Updates:
I'm extending the deadline for the last time so everyone has time to do their last revisions: until 7pm (GMT -3, forum time). After that, I'll tell you who are the "finalists" and will announce the winner and pay him or her within 48 hours (counting from 7pm), as specified in the contest post. There are many great designs and it's going to be a hard decision to make, so I'm taking these 48 hours to ask the opinion of friends, customers, etc.

Image suggestions:
I asked some of you to fill "blank" spaces with something, to include pictures of happy dogs in your designs, maybe to put a lying dog on top of the menu, etc... So here are some nice images that you can use on your designs:

For the site "cover":
http://portugues.istockphoto.com/st...ning-through-green-field-against-blue-sky.php
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-9037013-sporting-dog.php
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-13404315-golden-retriever.php

For putting on top of the menu if you think it fits your design (or on top of something else):
http://portugues.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-208686-what-a-dog-day.php
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-12837041-resting-golden-retriever.php
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-12951951-relaxing-golden-retriever.php


Misc:
http://portugues.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-242549-talking-dog.php
http://portugues.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-7028525-cute-puppy.php

 

Anterr: Thanks for one more revision. Looks good!

leetsooc: looks great! nothing else to change or revise. Thank you.

vinpkl: thanks for revising it. Looks great! Feedback and last revision request:
* Looks good in green
* Could you please enlarge the logo a bit?
* The "home" and "contact" items could be a little smaller
* The dog on top of the menu looks a bit like he's "flying" up there, if possible, please replace it with one of the images suggested for "on top of the menu" in my post above. I know they're not "happy" as I initially asked but I couldn't find any happy dogs in this position, I think these will look nice, probably the retriever will look better.
* Could you please replace the "cover" image (of the dog and the girl) with one of the images suggested for the site "cover" in my post above
* Maybe making the green background a bit lighter (reducing it's opacity) will look even better
Thanks

 

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/8484/dogssitev8copy.jpg

 

leetsooc:very nice!

 

here is the design with all the changes you said

http://i26.tinypic.com/1676vrt.jpg



vineet

 

here is another variation.

http://i28.tinypic.com/dpwcox.jpg



vineet

 

here is another 3rd variation with different picture

http://i30.tinypic.com/2qx99hl.jpg



vineet

 

vinpkl: nice! I like the 3rd variation!

 

Hi, here is my revision,

http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx5/vashadesign/homepage5.png

http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx5/vashadesign/homepage3.png

http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx5/vashadesign/homepage4.png

 

vashadesign: Very nice! I like version 4.
* in the header, you forgot to remove the shadows of the houses and the streets going to them (no need to remove all streets, just the ones that became dead ends after removing the houses).
* Maybe switch the background color to a very light green or something else, I think the blue is not working very well

 

Thanks for the feedback,

I was experimenting with the background before reading about the shadows, gonna fix it right away.

I think the background is too simple and I have made some revision, let me know your thoughts about this one,

http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx5/vashadesign/homepage6.png

http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx5/vashadesign/homepage7.png

 

vashadesign: thanks for doing lots of revisions.
* I think this background is too heavy. Maybe it looks good without a background, who knows... Or maybe a gradient statring with a very very light (almost impossible to see) green on the top of the page and finishing with white on the bottom. To make it look good without a background, maybe it will be necessary to round the edges of the "cover" pic ans some more similar details
* Thanks for using the picture I recomended, however, it looks a bit artificial when you "mirrored" it, we want it to look natural

 

I'm closing the contest in a few minutes.

 

Entries look good Have you decided who is going to pay for the iStockPhotos because in the end they might be expensive? (you cannot use them without license) :S

 

Uploading my last revision, please don't close it yet. Thanks.

 

This contest is now closed.

A LOT of designers did excellent jobs, it's very very hard to choose. It saddens me to have to pick just one winner because there are so many great designs, I wish everybody could win, but i don't have that much money . Thank you everyone for your entries, for the great work and for all your patience in making multiple revisions. I'm sure many of you will eventually sell your designs for prices even higher than what I'm paying.

The finalists are: leetsooc and vinpkl. In no more than 48h (maybe even tomorrow morning) we will choose the winner from those 2 finalists and make the files/payment exchange. I was planning on letting you know what our next choices would be (3rd, 4th place and so on) but I couldn't decide because there are a lot of good designs, sorry....

Thanks a lot everyone
Best wishes