[ProjectComplete] Due 21 Nov - First Inventories website - $450

[3bedsemi]

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GOOD LUCK AND THANKS FOR LOOKING

Company Details

1a) Name of Company
First Inventories

1b)Company Tag Line or slogan:
Fast and Detailed Professional Inventories

1c) Do you have a company logo?
It is being produced by designoutpost : LOGO (http://www.designoutpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11684)

1d) Do you have a corporate visual identity (a customized (non stock) logo and color scheme carried out throughout your office, stationery, business cards, etc.)?
Not as yet.

1e) What is the nature of your business?: Briefly describe your products or services:
My business produces a document that is a full and detailed inventory of a property and condition of the contents.THis will be signed by the tennant and landlord at the start of the letting and then reviewed at teh end of the letting. The document will be used to make a judgement on how much of the deposit is returned back to the tennant.


1f) Who is your target market? Who are you hoping to reach with your site?
The website is going to be a brochure in the first instance. Targetting property Landlords, letting agencies, estate agencies and tennants.



Website Details

1b) Do you have an existing website? If so, what is the URL?
No

2b) IMPORTANT: Please list at least 3 URLs (web addresses) of high quality sites that you like the look of (these do not have to be sites who’s business is similar to yours. It aids us in determining what your design style is.) Please consider layout, colors, navigation, graphics, and typography.

I don't have 3 sites in mind... will post some at a later stage...

I like light, fresh, clean, tabbed, rounded sites with good use of white background.

For website related to inventories business then look at this:

inventories links (http://del.icio.us/doshi/inventories)

3b) What colors or color schemes would you like?
no particular colour scheme but want it to match the colour scheme of the logo.

4b) List the Navigation links for your Site:

Home – (should show news articles and a list of links to say partnerships/asscociations)
Services
Prices
The Inventory
The Process
News
FAQ
Coverage
Online Booking
Contact Us


The bottom should have terms and conditions, sitemap link

the above list may change

5b) What type of look are you trying to achieve? (e.g. clean, high-tech, conservative, warm, flashy, etc.)
I like light, fresh, clean, tabbed, rounded sites with good use of white background.

6b) Please provide the addresses of competitors' sites, if possible:

This link contains a list of links that are similar to my business

inventories links (http://del.icio.us/doshi/inventories)


7b) Do you have any images for use in the design of your site? If not, do you have images, can you offer suggestions of what you type of imagery you feel would be most suitable for your website:
I would like to see high quality images of things related to houses e.g. bathrooms, living rooms, dining rooms, conservatories, houses, gardens - basically rooms within the house/flat.


Deadlines and Deliverables

1c) What is the deadline for the design of your project?
21st Novemeber 2006

2c) What is required breakdown of the files you require our designers to supply you with on finalization of your project?

Home page and section page - html coded

[3bedsemi]

The Logo for my company First Inventories is nearly coming to completion and can be found in the logo forums. This may help with the design. Also, please tell me what further information you require to get this project started?
thanks

[lisaw]

Hello

I would like to submit an entry to this project. I will post one soon.

Thanks.

[lisaw]

Here is my submission.

I have made up some text, (I'm sure you have your own text) just to show what the page would look like.

The images are from istock photo and can be purchased if you choose my design.

I hope you like it, feeback welcomed!!
Thanks
Lisa.

(p.s. had to very slightly reduce the quality of images etc, to allow for uploading onto this site).

[3bedsemi]

Hi lisaw, thanks for the submission, I will shortly provide some feedback. :)

regards

[3bedsemi]

HI Lisaw, sorry for the delayed response. my intenet connection was playing up.

The overall look is fresh and nice. I like the rounded tabbed sections.The selection of house style and checklist photos are nice.

Can you place the following logo in the template. I would like you to make use of the three colours used in the logo on the template and maybe the top section to be be white space instead of the blue.

http://www.designoutpost.com/forums/showpost.php?p=237312&postcount=9

Questions:
how flexible will the right hand column be? I may want to add new sections like: testimonials, links and maybe 4 PDF download links showing samples of documents that I create.

[lisaw]

Hi 3bedsemi!

Thanks for the feeback. I will set about making the changes.

The right hand column will be completely flexible, in that as you add more content it will grow longer and so will the rest of the page.

Let me know if there is anything else you want changed or any more questions you have.

Thanks.

[lisaw]

Hi 3bedsemi

Here is the revised submission. Please let me know what you think.

I hope you like it!

Lisa

[Severner]

Hello there,

This is what I have come up for you so far and I think the header could like very nice rotating images of interiors etc;

[Asparagus Productions]

I'll have something for you soon.

[Asparagus Productions]

http://www.asparagusproductions.com/designoutpost/firstinventories_001.gif

[3bedsemi]

Hi 3bedsemi

Here is the revised submission. Please let me know what you think.

I hope you like it!

Lisa

Good morning Lisa

Here are my comments for Lisa - revision2



The overall website feel is pleasing to the eye apart from some issues with colour.
The slogon text in blue blends in too much with the blue background.
The orange for the tabs when not selected is not clear to read.
The general text colour seems too faint.
Can you add a fax number image under the phone and email image.
can you remove "our news", "faq" from teh right hand side column
it's not clear if the "our news", Frequently asked questions", "coverage" text in right hand column are links or just text.
can you add FAQ and coverage to the top level tabs. Place them after process tab
can you add the 4 PDF downloads examples to the right hand side column and a link at the bottom taking you to see more downloads.
can you places booking tab between inventory and prices.

[3bedsemi]

Hello there,

This is what I have come up for you so far and I think the header could like very nice rotating images of interiors etc;

Hi Severner. thanks for your submission.

Here is my feedback for Severner - version 1


would like to see the logo blended into the top header. At the moment it looks "bolted on" and distant.
Would like to see the top level tabs blended in somehow. again , they look distant.
I like the clean overall feel and balance of the design
I like the clear and bold photo of the furniture.
I like the downloads section to the left with the PDF images for links.
I like the use of the headings in the same font ( to me it looks like the same font) as the logo.

[3bedsemi]

image

Hi Asparagus

Thanks for your submission.

Here is my feedback for your entry:


the overall look seems squashed.
the logo seems too large with respect to the overall page.
overall look seems too grey. not keen on the faded images
not keen on the font used for the slogon.
I like the top level tabs used
I like the Testimonials component
I like the samples component.
how about replacing the arrow links with PDF images.

regards

[lisaw]

Hello

Here is my entry with revisions made. Please let me know if there is anything else you would like changed?

Are the images OK? I changed the sofa picture from the earlier entry, but can change it back if you prefer the other one.

Thanks.
Lisa.

[heathersmith]

I'm working on something :)

[heathersmith]

edit

[lisaw]

Hello

a more detailed entry from me :)

[lisaw]

here's another version with the background colour in blue.

[heathersmith]

My entry:

[heathersmith]

Second page:

[3bedsemi]

Hi, thanks for the recent entries. I am in the process of gathering my thoughts and will post something very soon

regards :cool:

[3bedsemi]

Hello Heathersmith

thanks for the entry

** I like the overall proportion and clean feel
** I like the photo of the kitchen and the bedroom on the second page
** It's very blue so how about trying to add some more green if possible and a hint of orange as found in the logo.
** I like the watermarked type tick beside the kitchen photo
** The first page has a grey aspect to the header ( section where the logo is) while the second page does not. I prefer the second page header
** could you add another photo if feasible to the body of the page? which could change with different pages or something that I could omit depending on content
** I like the fonts used
** I like the green "fast and detailed profess inventories" on second page
** I like the HOME, FAQ and CONTACT links in the top right corner
** I like the tabs and colour of the tabs
** I like the testimonial and links component

regards :)

[3bedsemi]

Feedback for lisaw

thanks for the revision

** can you replace with the sofa photo.
** I think it looks better without the blue background
** not keen on the shadows around the 3 header images
** not keen on the contact us and download headers. They look like buttons
** not keen on the glowing line under the contact us and downloads components
** The main body text seems small - could this be increased just a little if possible?
** Can you show me what the page looks like without the background graphics behind the body of the text
** when home is selected, would there be the thin white line below the tab or would it be filled in?


regards :)

[heathersmith]

Thank you for your feedback :)

Here are the revisions for the first page:

[heathersmith]

Second page:

[3bedsemi]

Hi Heathersmith

thanks for the revision. my comments:
** I am not keen on teh green background. I prefer the initial blue background. Also, i am not keen on the orange buttons - i prefer the green button. Is there anywhere else you could add orange subtly to the design?
** I like the new photo of the towels in the second page.

regards

regards

[lisaw]

my revision

[heathersmith]

:)

[heathersmith]

and...

[3bedsemi]

Hi, Just letting you know that I am going to announce the designer that I will work with later today ...The decision is not easy as both Lisaw and HeatherSmith have created excellent designs... :unsure::unsure:

[3bedsemi]

Hi

The winner is Heathersmith. :drink:

I have chosen this design because it is easy on the eye, well organised and has a professional feel. I look forward to working with you to finalise the design.

regards

[lisaw]

:) well done heathersmith

[Severner]

Congratulations to both you and Heathersmith, beautiful site!

[heathersmith]

Thank you for choosing my design! :D

Let me know what changes you would like made and I will start coding the pages right away.

Heather

Thank you Lisaw & Severner :)

[3bedsemi]

Hi,

thanks for producing an excellent design!

I am compiling a list of changes for you...

regards

[3bedsemi]

Hi, changes required for First Inventories Design Project:

1. Please use the final logo ( EPS format available and other formats also available - tell me what u need)
2. Make the Logo proportionally correct. At the moment it looks oversized.
3.The Top tab order - Services, inventory, process, news,coverage,prices, booking.
4. can you add a sitemap link to the bottom of the page beside copyright msg.

** How difficult would it to add a new side components to the right hand side column? say a news component?
** Is there anyway you could potentially add some more green to the design? The green border you put in earlier did not seem right... If you can't then that is no problem.
** will the bottom copyright msg be in text format?

regards

[heathersmith]

Hello,

I'm working on the revisions and I will have something to show you by tonight.

Thanks!

Heather

[heathersmith]

How's this for the first page? :)

(The copyright info will be in text format)

Heather

[3bedsemi]

Hi , thanks for the update.

if you can change the tab order
New Top tab order - Services, inventory, process, news,coverage,prices, booking

i think we are all done! :-)

regards

[heathersmith]

Great!

I will start coding the pages.

Heather

[heathersmith]

PM sent :)

[heathersmith]

Files sent!

[3bedsemi]

hi, I have received the files. thanks :-)