FEEDBACK @jharrvis: Welcome to the contest and welcome to Digital Point. Great designers are always needed. I appreciate you incorporating all my suggestions. I like how you designed your own 123 steps, instead of using the design I provided. Who ever wins will actually have to do this. I have two suggestions: 1) I need the form to be bigger. 2) I don't know how you can do this but the insurance companies seem rather detached from the overall design. Any suggestion on how to make them more incorporated into the header?
FEEDBACK @jharrvis: Thank you for letting me see a bigger form. However, I like your green "Top Quotes From Top Providers" above the banner that you had in your first design. Sorry about not being clear concerning my other suggestion. I was suggesting that you somehow incorporate into header the insurance company logos that you see under the 123 steps. The logos don't seem to be a part of the theme. @Black Thesis Designs: Thank you for your updates. Two suggestions: 1) Remove the logo in the header and put it above the picture. The logo will most likely just be text. 2) Navigation also needs to be incorporated into the design. I would put it above the header also. @borsi: Thank you for changing the 123 steps. They definitely look better incorporated into the header than before. The form, however, needs to be added into the header and not beneath it. I am afraid if we had the form there it would fall under the fold for many viewers. @Ace2016: You are really doing a fantastic job at incorporating all my suggestions. I am a fan of your current design, now all I have are but a few minor further suggestions. First, the numbers in the header need to look different since I ripped off the 123 graphic from another website (I should probably be a little different from my competitors ). Secondly, I like the diamond icon idea that you use for the posts but I think we should find a different icon since we have used it on two other websites. Other than those changes you are in the final category on deciding who will win this contest. As always, thank you for your great talent and agility in adapting my suggestions to your designs. @b4db0y: Wow, love your designs. Very clean and clear. I prefer your second design with the insurance company logos in the header. My suggestion is as follows: Take "Free Quotes From Multiple Providers" and move the saying up a bit. I would then recommend designing the form the user will be filling out where you have, "TOP QUOTES FROM TOP PROVIDERS" (look at i5ive.com for ideas on what the form will look like). I like the "TOP QUOTES" text but it's right where the form needs to be. Once you have those changes the text body and footer need to be designed. For the footer, I actually want a footer and a subfooter. The main footer will actually be a sidebar, like what you see in one column wordpress themes. The subfooter will have the company information. For the body text I need a right or left sidebar. I will let you choose where you think the body sidebar should be. Let me know if you have any questions, but so far I really like this design.
FEEDBACK @cottonStella: It's nice to see you make the jump from logos to site designs. Particularly, when you create a great design like this. I appreciate you incorporating all my suggestions. The only changes I recommend are actually additions. In the body and sidebar I need title bars designed. These are the H2 tags. Also in the main footer I need it to look like a sidebar. Look at the footer of this website to see what I am talking about. Let me know if you have any questions.
FEEDBACK @jharrvis: Thank you for all your changes. This is a great design, and no more changes are needed. Your design is now a part of the finalist group.
ANNOUNCEMENTS I will be closing this contest tomorrow. Currently, jharrvis is the only designer who has made all the changes, with Ace2016 very close also. There are three other designs I am seriously considering as well, IF they make the needed changes. Please submit your changes as soon as possible so that I can add your design to the finalist group. Again, Thank you for all your great work. I envy all your design talents!
UPDATES the difference in the darkness of the forms. If you need more changes just tell me. thanks, Regards, b4db0y
WINNERS ANNOUNCED Those of you who have participated in my past contests know that I always offer a cash prize for the winner and also a lesser cash prize for one or two runner-ups. However, with this contest there really were no runner-up designs. There were four designers who deserved to win the $65. So, instead of awarding one winner and a few runner-ups, I will be awarding the final four designers each a $65 prize. I want to thank everyone who participated in this contest. I am always in awe with the talent I find on here, and hope that you will participate in my future contests. CONTEST WINNERS In alphabetic order Ace2016 ($65) b4db0y ($65) cottonStella ($65) jharrvis ($65)