Hi, I am creating an affiliate/sales site based around news and videos and I'm looking for some ideas about design. I looking for somebody to come up with a design for the home page and sub pages with $250 available for the home page design and $150 for the subpage design. So $400 if I decide to use both parts, but if you just want to go for one or the other that's fine. Indeed I may choose a homepage submission to use as a subpage or vice versa. I only require an image of the site, you do not need to code it. This will preferably be a psd. Description - Site will provide users with relevant video programming (think soaps and infomercials), news about products and lifestyle surrounding products, as well as the opportunity to purchase/download products. Open to any ideas, you can create, borrow or steal bits from any websites you like. If you want to use widgets to display information (like Yahoo's tabs etc) you can do that too. In terms of how I'm going to display affiliate information I'm wanting to copy poker/casino style pages such as http://www.pokernews.com/ http://pokerworks.com/ http://www.pokerpages.com/ and in terms of how to deliver video and news, as well as the above, also http://www.brandrepublic.com/ http://current.com/ http://www.lonelyplanet.tv/ In any combination or variation you can think of or go for something completely different. Colours - Colours to use are black, white, grey and red. You may use other colours (blue may fit into the overall theme) but predominantly these should be the prime colours and unless you have a specific reason for including another colour I would tend to favour just these. Navigation - Whatever you feel works best. This can be tabs, side nav, images, etc. I don't need you to create a site structure or worry about usability as such (although the design must be user friendly), just however you envisage the site working. Closes April 4th 09:00 BST, or generally whenever I get around to looking at it that day
Hey mate, I will get an entry in for both parts hopefully over the weekend! Sounds interesting and the kind of site I like to do. Will post when I have completed! Cheers, Davey. Woo...1500 posts
Hi again mate, Here is my submission; I imagine the sections would need some swapping around/changing etc. I just didn't have enough info to go on from your post but hey this will give you the main design idea anyway. Also, the header isn't done yet as there was no site name posted. http://www.memvis.com/dp/j8diamond/ Am willing to make any changes you might want. Cheers, Davey.
Hey DaveyBoy, I like the design. What I'd like is a more dedicated news area, probably significantly bigger. I was thinking if you take out the free and not so free stuff and make the box deeper and use that as a news area (1 or 2 columns, not sure what'll work) and obviously deepen the affiliate box accordingly. Also could you box off an affiliate section or two, for while I can imagine what it'll look like, my colleagues require a more visual frame of reference. Just shove in a screen cut of pokernews affiliates but if you could put the red dot breaks rather than their blue lines as dividers. Also I see you've done a couple of poker specific designs that don't seem to have been used, is it alright if I put them up for consideration too? I know they're not quite to my design brief, but again it's just ideas we're really looking for here and poker seems to have the best affiliate sites, to my mind anyway (hence my couple of poker sites :]) Cheers.
Hey mate, thanks for the feedback. Just a couple of points - 1) Regarding making the boxes 'deeper' to have a news section - do you just mean longer on the page? It's early so maybe i'm confusing myself! hah 2) Which poker sites did you mean that I had created? I will make the changes at some point this morning. Glad you like it so far! Cheers, Davey.
1) Yeah, longer 2) Eatmystack and Pokerbonusrolls, although the latter isn't really anything like what I want and the eat my stack I'd be chopping so the whole top box is above the fold. They are both very poker oriented and it's not quite what I want, but they do provide a bit of variety
OK thanks, i'll make the changes no worries. Those two poker designs were for contests that I actually won so I couldn't sell them again. Feel free to show my work though. Will post back when I have finished your requested changes mate, cheers.
Hi Anterr, Not so keen on your design because there's no room above the fold to 'sell' anything or put stories. Needs a larger area for stories too.
Regarding the 2nd page, what do you need for that? I'll try that next now I have my main design. Davey.
Hey mate, Decided to have a go of the inside page as well, felt motivated! Here are both the pages : Home Page : http://memvis.com/dp/j8diamond/ Inside Page : http://memvis.com/dp/j8diamond/inside/ Let me know what you think! Davey.
Hey DaveyBoy, we've had a talk this morning although I'm waiting for people to get back to me by email and we're quite happy with the design. If we wanted a couple of changes (specifically the news 'boxes' to include an image and the subpage articles to have an image at the top of the article) would you be able to do that? I'll PM you for your payment details.
Thanks mate, glad you like it. I have PM'd you my details. Yes, any changes you want before I send the files are no problem. Davey.