$150 Design Contest

[dreaminginspiration]

Contest Title: $150 Design Contest
Deadline: Monday 20th March 2006
Prize / Delivery Method: $150 via Paypal

I need a new design and logo for my site www.pokercrowd.co.uk, this is a site for people to host and search for poker games. I will need a main front page and a sub page with little/no content as well as a unique logo. The design and logo must be sleek, clean and professional i dont want a "template" look with shiney orbs everywhere. An example of the type of design i like is http://www.bodog.com/poker/ no including the large white content section. Im looking for a dark design with the colours i like found at http://www.bodog.com/poker/ (not the red).

Mainpage: A simple layout with the header at the top, menu at the left and the content to the right. In the content a place for a 250px square ad logo promoting users to signup, A place for users to search for poker games and news items and also Poker Online. In the header i would also like a login form. The links i will need in the menu to begin with are Home, Search, Account, Forum, Poker Online, Poker School, FAQ, Contact

Sub Page: For this the layout is the same with the login form in the same place. In the content there will be need to be some sort of sub links at the top.

Logo: Im looking for a logo to represent the crowd part of the name kind of like the logo www.pokerroom.com has. It must match the design type and if you can do maybe multiple logo choices it will be a plus. I will be using this logo for many things like newsletters, being printed on t-shirts etc etc so it might be best to make it vector?

I will require all image files, fonts and anything else needed in the design. The design must be coded but its perfectly fine to code it after you have been chosen as the winner.

If you need to contact me im available by PM, email, yim, msn, aim. Just pm me for the addresses.

Edit: The quality of this design must be high. Also please reply to the thread if your going to enter.

 

[dreaminginspiration]

hmm maybe you could move the 250px x 250px ad to the top left of the content area and the search boxes which arent in yet to the left then the news beneath with the online events next to it.

The search boxes are: Type (drop down menu), Game (drop down), Style (drop down), location (dropdown), then the submit button also a text link beneath saying advanced search.

 

[Jim_]

I can't come up with a good logo design, but heres a layout.

 

[dreaminginspiration]

Well, the menu isnt wide enough, the header isnt high enough, i would like some sort of bg image on the header not just a gradient. The page u designed is closer to content than main page, read my details.

 

[kasted]

 

[dreaminginspiration]

To white, and i dont really like the gradients on the side.

 

[quietorbit]

 

[dreaminginspiration]

id like the search in the main content bit, and the games style location is 3 seperate searches.

 

[quietorbit]

Here are the 2 style I hav in my mind...

 

[dreaminginspiration]

Hey, maybe try to merge the news section and the recent news. and put the search where the recent news is.

 

[vivsin]

EDITED

 

[dreaminginspiration]

i quite like the button type and the colours (i know i said i didnt like the red) of the basketball ad. fonts are to big, no header bg image, layout not like i asked? i dont like the colours of that grey all over.

what site did u get that add off?

 

[vivsin]

EDITED

 

[dreaminginspiration]

to cramped, no online events, news area needed, 250px square banner, header to small, i would like to see a difference between content and menu.

 

[vivsin]

last attemp

 

[Chris.]

removed

 

[dreaminginspiration]

@ vivsin: ur last attempt so no point givin feedback

@ BuyandSwap: dont want to be a pain but, not really what i wanted at all, the layout is almost right but the design i could make myself, except maybe the 4 cards under the menu.

 

[kasted]

I was thinking about adding a tabbed quick-nav area just above the content area. But I wanted to know what you thought of the site as of now!

Thanks,
Scott.

 

[quietorbit]

 

[dreaminginspiration]

@ kasted: the colour doesnt look right to me, try black.

@ wongpk: after seeing your layout actually match the 250px banner i wanted i must say that the design should fit on a 1024x768 screen with no horizontal scrolling needed as 800x600 is too small.

 

[quietorbit]

Since it's 1024x768 size, I just link to the image...
http://i1.tinypic.com/rmimix.png