charles
02-22-2007, 04:41 PM
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Company Details
1a) Name of Company
FixingYourHome.com
1b)Company Tag Line or slogan:
none
1c) Do you have a company logo?
no
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.)?
no
1e) What is the nature of your business?: Briefly describe your products or services:
Information about home improvement topics. I wont be directly selling anything. Basically all article pages.
1f) Who is your target market? Who are you hoping to reach with your site?
anyone searching for ideas, help, products, information about home improvement topics.
Website Details
1b) Do you have an existing website? If so, what is the URL?
No site up yet.
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.
6b) Please provide the addresses of competitors' sites, if possible:
www.doityourself.com/ The only thing I like is the cleanness of their content section: example: http://www.doityourself.com/stry/replacedishwasher in the middle where the article is. My content will be along these lines. Their outer layout is way to busy and the content area is too small.
www.lowes.com/ I like their drop down menu.
http://www.askthebuilder.com/ nothing of note here.
http://hometime.com/Howto/projects/bathroom/bath_2.htm I have always had sites with multi columns before but I like the simple clean single column here. It’s a bit narrower then I would use.
http://www.frontgate.com/jump.jsp?itemID=7582&itemType=PRODUCT&path=1%2C2%2C145%2C1821&iProductID=7582 Im not doing any ecommerce but it’s a very nice site. Like their menu. Very clean site.
http://www.home-improvement-home-improvement.com/ nice simple, clean.
www.citysceneblog.com I do like the small simple header banner with the collage of pictures. Can’t decide if I want to do a collage like that or something else. Perhaps you can show a sample of each so I can decide. I do like how the whole page resizes but the banner doesn’t move when you make the window smaller. This works for a collage style but perhaps not for something else.
3b) What colors or color schemes would you like?
None picked
4b) List the Navigation links for your Site:
See comments further down about the menu.
Menu titles: not set in stone yet.
Interior Home Projects
Exterior Home Projects
Plumbing, Heat & Air
Gardening & Outside
Other Projects
5b) What type of look are you trying to achieve? (e.g. clean, high-tech, conservative, warm, flashy, etc.)
Clean, simple yet professional.
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 have no images. Any related to home projects.
Deadlines and Deliverables
1c) What is the deadline for the design of your project? 3 weeks.
2c) What is required breakdown of the files you require our designers to supply you with on finalization of your project?
Standard design deliverables.
Are there any other comments/specific ideas we should keep in mind while designing your project?
The follow were things I wrote down before filling out this sheet.
FixingYourHome.com is my new domain. I have no current logo, graphics, site or anything.
The site is for helping people with home improvements. The site is an information site displaying home improvement articles. Anything from inside projects to outside projects and more. Think of anything that you can get in home depot or lowes and I will be providing information on these things.
I like the simple standard black text on white background for the content area.
I like standard blue for text links.
I like minimal size top header to allow for more content above the fold.
I would like some type of graphics in the header area in the theme of home improvement. You would need to provide graphics with rights to use (or let me know cost to buy rights – low costs please). I did see that Microsoft office clipart photos has many home improvement theme photos and those I believe can be used as I own their software.
I looked through template sites and didn’t find anything I liked.
One or two column.
I would like to include some type of drop down menu matching the colors of the site. Graphic or text main buttons.
I just want this to be better than an off the shelf template.
Look forward to seeing your ideas.
-Charles
Company Details
1a) Name of Company
FixingYourHome.com
1b)Company Tag Line or slogan:
none
1c) Do you have a company logo?
no
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.)?
no
1e) What is the nature of your business?: Briefly describe your products or services:
Information about home improvement topics. I wont be directly selling anything. Basically all article pages.
1f) Who is your target market? Who are you hoping to reach with your site?
anyone searching for ideas, help, products, information about home improvement topics.
Website Details
1b) Do you have an existing website? If so, what is the URL?
No site up yet.
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.
6b) Please provide the addresses of competitors' sites, if possible:
www.doityourself.com/ The only thing I like is the cleanness of their content section: example: http://www.doityourself.com/stry/replacedishwasher in the middle where the article is. My content will be along these lines. Their outer layout is way to busy and the content area is too small.
www.lowes.com/ I like their drop down menu.
http://www.askthebuilder.com/ nothing of note here.
http://hometime.com/Howto/projects/bathroom/bath_2.htm I have always had sites with multi columns before but I like the simple clean single column here. It’s a bit narrower then I would use.
http://www.frontgate.com/jump.jsp?itemID=7582&itemType=PRODUCT&path=1%2C2%2C145%2C1821&iProductID=7582 Im not doing any ecommerce but it’s a very nice site. Like their menu. Very clean site.
http://www.home-improvement-home-improvement.com/ nice simple, clean.
www.citysceneblog.com I do like the small simple header banner with the collage of pictures. Can’t decide if I want to do a collage like that or something else. Perhaps you can show a sample of each so I can decide. I do like how the whole page resizes but the banner doesn’t move when you make the window smaller. This works for a collage style but perhaps not for something else.
3b) What colors or color schemes would you like?
None picked
4b) List the Navigation links for your Site:
See comments further down about the menu.
Menu titles: not set in stone yet.
Interior Home Projects
Exterior Home Projects
Plumbing, Heat & Air
Gardening & Outside
Other Projects
5b) What type of look are you trying to achieve? (e.g. clean, high-tech, conservative, warm, flashy, etc.)
Clean, simple yet professional.
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 have no images. Any related to home projects.
Deadlines and Deliverables
1c) What is the deadline for the design of your project? 3 weeks.
2c) What is required breakdown of the files you require our designers to supply you with on finalization of your project?
Standard design deliverables.
Are there any other comments/specific ideas we should keep in mind while designing your project?
The follow were things I wrote down before filling out this sheet.
FixingYourHome.com is my new domain. I have no current logo, graphics, site or anything.
The site is for helping people with home improvements. The site is an information site displaying home improvement articles. Anything from inside projects to outside projects and more. Think of anything that you can get in home depot or lowes and I will be providing information on these things.
I like the simple standard black text on white background for the content area.
I like standard blue for text links.
I like minimal size top header to allow for more content above the fold.
I would like some type of graphics in the header area in the theme of home improvement. You would need to provide graphics with rights to use (or let me know cost to buy rights – low costs please). I did see that Microsoft office clipart photos has many home improvement theme photos and those I believe can be used as I own their software.
I looked through template sites and didn’t find anything I liked.
One or two column.
I would like to include some type of drop down menu matching the colors of the site. Graphic or text main buttons.
I just want this to be better than an off the shelf template.
Look forward to seeing your ideas.
-Charles