Hi everyone. I am looking for a banner and matching favicon for my website www.sportsticketsecrets.com. This is my first contest, so I tried to set the $$ high enough to be fair and make it worthwhile. Please let me know if I'm being unrealistic. Please try to use the caricature on the home page if you can instead of some generic shape or symbol. You don't have to use the entire caricature, but try to match the pictures of have on some of the other pages, kind of like my avitar which shows my face and the tickets. Also include the catch phrase "stop watching the big game on TV". If you have something completely different I'd be willing to look at it, but right now I'm leaning toward something more cartoony. I don't want anything super flashy, but something that is eye catching and fits the overall tone of the site and colors. I also need a matching favicon file that could include the "head and tickets" of the banner, but I am open to your creativity. Background about the site: This is a lighthearted site that teaches sports fans how and when to buy tickets for face value. Since sports by there very nature are fun, I'm looking for something along those lines What I need from you: 1) Original .psd file and fonts used 2) .gif & .jpg files 3) 32x32 and 16x16 favicon files Payment: I'll send you $75 via paypal once I have chosen the winner. Rules: Be creative! Must match the current site colors. Area for banner is about 90 high and 450 wide. Be sure to protect your submission so there is no theft of your ideas (not that it would happen here on DP Please contact me if you need a bigger version of the image on my homepage. I can send you a link as a .psd file that may help. The contest will end in one week or sooner if I see something that WOWs me. Good luck!
Hello coolwanz, Yes, please use it if you want to. I'm happy to include it in the banner. Thanks for the question. jhoward
Wow, I'm impressed with the quick response and banners! crowquill I like yours the best so far. I like how you added the baseball, but maybe try it abve the i in ticket. Also, can you add some more sports balls like a football and basketball? They could even be very light in the background, just something to cover several sports. Ariestoteles I like you idea of having a mascot character, but the one you've got doesn't look like a "ticky". I would like something a little simpler like the TiVo character if I go that direction. hosters If feels like you just pieced together a few different things that don't go together. I like having some kind of light pattern in the background of sports ticket secrets, but I don't care much for the S and figure on the right side. I had someone ask in a PM about animation. I hadn't thought about it before, but I'm open to looking at that too, but don't feel obligated to have any animation in the banner. It's not that vital to me. Also, I didn't think to say this before, but please post your sample in this thread instead of in a PM so everyone is on the same page. Thanks for all the great banners. I appreciate it. jhoward
Thanks for the feedback. My first entry was only draft and not final. The final version will be posted soon with your suggestions incorporated.
Banner Proposal for sportsticketsecrets.com .................................................................. favicon
Great entries Crowquill and Coolwanz. After long gap here is my try. Just for fun watch. I know there is a size restriction....but tempted to post large logo/banner.
My Entry is well a full redesign, I know you never said to do it but you said be creative, so I was and redesigned your site while inkeeping with the small form of layout. If I win I will edit all your pages into the new design.
Wow, you guys (and gals?) aren't going to make this very easy for me!! These are all great entries. Ariestoteles Thanks so much for entering. Yours is a good basic design, and I know I asked for something not too fancy, but now that I'm seeing some of the others, I probably am going to go with something with a little more flair. I like that you changed the ticket, but how about spreading the letters out a little so they're not so crammed together? And my head is not in the same proportion as the original. Can you make it not look so stretched? crowquill I like some of the changes you've made to yours. I like the addition of the soccer ball, but I prefer the caricature layout you had in your first one. I liked how it was at an angle and tilted a little. I also liked the square better than circle. Also, maybe make the square face part look like an old time polaroid picture. That might look cool. I also like that you've changed the tag line to more match the url. Good job. Still one of my favorites, but there's some stiff competition from others! coolwanz I like this one quite a bit, especially the animated balls on the right side. Nice job. I'm concerned with the colors, however. They don't really match or compliment the colors of my site. I do like the hat with the STS on it, but those colors don't match the colors of the words in the banner. I also like the glow you've got behind my picture. Can you straighten the hat up so I don't look so gansta? LOL Also, I like the idea of having bleachers full of people, but this banner doesn’t look like it’s going to fit on the space I have for it. And since my page backgrounds are mostly white, I’m afraid the solid colors on the background may look too out of place. Can’t think of a way to make it work though, unless the colors fades to while at the bottom, but that might not look very good. I think since the whole header has a white background, the banner will stand out too much. I also like the idea of the bleachers, but the ones you have look like a little different style than the rest of the banner. I also like the spotlights in the background. On the favicon, can you make the background white so it’s easier to make out what it is? I like yours the best so far. Check out www.crossfit.com and take a look at their favicon. I’d like something kind of like that if possible. Thanks!! Also, you could maybe put the S from my jersey on the cap and use that as the favicon. Just a suggestion. ramakrishna p I’m sorry, but this is one of my least favorites right now. I do like how you’ve tried to incorporate the tv into it, but the balls are too big and cover my face. Also, my body looks like it’s distorted. Don’t feel like you have to use the whole image. I’m perfectly happy with you just using a portion of it like just my head and hands, etc. Very creative idea though, so good job there. Retzseo Another of my favorites here. I like the tickets with the url on it and I like the row of sports balls. One thing I would suggest right now is you don’t have to use the whole caricature of me. You can use just a portion of it to make the head bigger. Also, can you clean up the letter on the ticket so they’re easier to read? Right now the words are crammed together a little. In reviewing yours again, I like having a ticket in the banner, but how about one that looks more like a sports tickets? If you click on any of the pictures on http://www.sportsticketsecrets.com/bowl_secrets.html you’ll see what I mean. Also I’m not sure the banner is the correct size, so you may need to adjust it to make it fit into the area I have in the header. Overall nice job. It’s going to be a difficult decision! Power Slave Even though yours is more simple, I do like it. I like the tennis ball very much. It shows some movement in the banner. I also like that you were creative in how much of my caricature you used. The only thing I would suggest right now is to flip the background shading so the darker part is on top and fades to while, although I just checked my site header and it’s all white so I’m not sure how the colored background in any of these banners will look on the site. KIbeth Thanks for the redesign entry. I’m not completely opposed to a redesigned site. I purchased this one as a template, so all along I’ve been thinking of getting something new. With a new site such as this, how easy is it to add and move pages? Right now I use FrontPage which does the navigation automatically when I add or delete pages. I do like the little footballs next to the menu items. If I go with a new site, I think it would be cool to have the footballs next to football tickets, baseballs next to the baseball tickets, etc. I would like the caricature to be larger however. Again, you don’t have to use the whole thing, so maybe you could just use my head and right hand. Thanks again for all the entries so far. Some of you didn't have a favicon. That is an important part of this contest for me. One thing I thought was I guess I could split the prize money if you all don't want to make a favicon. Just a thought. I'll try to work on a list to put them in order of my favorites in alittle while. I'm having a hard time deciding right now. jhoward