[Project Complete] Due March 23rd - Web 2.0 Startup - Commenting Systems - $380

[doke01]

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Company Details

1a) Name of Company: PodGlo Enterprises, Inc.

1b)Company Tag Line or slogan: "What do you Speak?"

1c) Do you have a company logo?

Yes - You should be able to get it from here: http://podglo.podzone.net:8085/

Let me know if you need anything more.

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.)?

Yes. Red and Blue with white backgrounds.

1e) What is the nature of your business?: Briefly describe your products or services:

Web 2.0 startup - Audio Commenting Systems

1f) Who is your target market? Who are you hoping to reach with your site?

Siteowners, bloggers, podcasters to host the service and general consumers 18-35, youth 14-17 for listening to comments


Website Details

1b) Do you have an existing website? If so, what is the URL? The site will exist at www.podglo.com. For something that I have put together see http://podglo.podzone.net:8085/ (it is not very good but gets out some of the key ideas).

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.

www.bloglines.com

www.mybloglog.com

www.feedster.com

www.widgetbox.com

www.technorati.com (most relevant except there needs to be something like the 'get audio comments' side bar in http://podglo.podzone.net:8085/ . There will need to be space for a tag cloud).

3b) What colors or color schemes would you like? Red and blue and shades thereof. White background, everything centered as in samples. Open feel with white space.

4b) List the Navigation links for your Site: (In No Particular order)

Popular
Favorites
Get it!
Community
My Comments!

5b) What type of look are you trying to achieve? (e.g. clean, high-tech, conservative, warm, flashy, etc.) Web 2.0, clean and inviting.

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

www.evoca.com
www.chinswing.com

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: No images right now. People. People in conversations. People talking with Microphones/mobile phones or in front of computers. Happy people:-)

Deadlines and Deliverables

1c) What is the deadline for the design of your project? - March 23rd.

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

HTML + any images + any CSS
Photoshop/Illustrator page if possible.

Are there any other comments/specific ideas we should keep in mind while designing your project?

The site should be easy to understand and navigate at first glance. There are two purposes of the page: 1. To get site owners to download and use the widget on their sites 2. To get people to listen to comments and participate in the community.

[doke01]

Why am I getting no responses yet? Can anyone give some guidance? Maybe there is a misunderstanding as to what I need? Is it $? Or is everyone just to busy?

Thanks,

Doug

[Zoe]

Hello Doug,

Often can take a few days before you receive your first entry. I think most of us read through the information and sit on it for a couple of days whilst we form an idea.

I am sure you will receive an idea soon.

[doke01]

Demex,

Thanks for letting me know. I am really excited to see what everyone has to offer. I am like a kid on Christmas!

I will just have to show patience.

Doug

[Zoe]

Hi Doug,

I am begining a design however am a little puzzled by something.

Could you please tell me what the image of ' +100/-10 Glos ' to the right of the play lists is?

Thanks

Zoe

[doke01]

Zoe,

It is just a rating system. You can use something like (+10/-2) (where the 10 is 10 positive ratings and the 2 is 2 negative ratings) as a placeholder. Feel free to give your interpretation of how you think it should be displayed as we are still figuring out how to display the information. The key idea is that these are playable, rateable comments and you are free to give them your interpretation as to how they are displayed in the design.

Doug

[doke01]

I thought you might like to see something more so here is the url to our development site. It might give you some more ideas.

http://podglo.podzone.net:8085/playback.php

To see the current playback widget for the side go to www.myspace.com/doke01. This is unfinished and not working functionality but the size/shape/style is about what it should end up being.

[Zoe]

Hello Doug,

Thank you for that. Here is the start of my idea. Before going too much further, I was hoping to see if this is headed in the right direction. - plus it gives you something to unwrap. :D

I look forward to your feedback.

Zoe

[doke01]

Zoe,

Thanks for giving me something to 'unwrap'!:-)

It's a nice direction but I'd really like to get closer to www.technorati.com.

The PodGlo: definition and Glo: definition don't need to be there also because we will handle it on a FAQ page.

check out www.myspace.com/doke01 for the current player. The one you show is an early mockup. click on the blue links in the player and you can see the buttons we are using now.

Oh and I want to try and avoid the feeling of pink. We had some bad responses to that before by users.

Other then that, you really made my day by putting something up.

Thanks,

Doug

[Zoe]

Hi Doug,

Are you happy to go to a wider design template - 1024 pixels wide - rather than 800 pixels wide?

Technorati - is 1024 pixels wide.

Thanks

Zoe

[doke01]

Zoe,

Yes, that is fine. I did some research and 80% of web surfers are using 1024 wide or wider. Also, most of our projected users are web-savvy and more likely to have the higher resolutions so it is fine.

Check it out if you want to see:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp



Doug

[Zoe]

Thank Doug,

I will continue working on the project over the next few days. Unfortunately I work during the week, so only have a little time after work. Will see how I go. :)

Thanks

Zoe

[Zoe]

Hi Doug,

Just wondering, are you able to "sway" the colours of the logo by any chance? To possibly a different shade of red and blue?

Thanks

Zoe

[doke01]

The site has not launched yet so I don't see why not. Go ahead if you think it will help the design.

Doug

[Zoe]

Hi Doug,

Here is something a little more funkier. I haven't added the image as I had problems getting that. Please check your PM regarding these issues.

Also I was a little unsure what else you may have in the info boxes?

I look forward to your feedback.

[doke01]

Zoe,

What images do you need? I will get them for you. I will let you know on the other info boxes later today ( I will give you a better idea of what we want in that area..but you are getting closer:-)).

Also, lets assume no ad space is needed. We will do the ads on other pages.

Also, I am not thrilled with red man. How about removing the dark blue header and red man and centering PodGlo over the first column with a white background.

Could you take the red border away from around PodGlo and make the "w" and "s" capital in "What do you Speak?"? I would like PodGlo and the tagline to be surrounded by whitespace.

The bar where it says search, make that into the top of a box (like the top 20 box) that surrounds the top searches column of boxes.

Make the page background white and what do you think of a thin, red border for the boxes?

If you look at http://podglo.podzone.net:8085/playback.php there are some avatars associated with the comments further down. I believe they are 50x50 pixels. Could you put those where the numbers are under top 20? This should be a community site so it would be good to see the avatars somewhere.

I'll get back to you tonight with the first column info.

Doug

[Zoe]

Hello Doug,

If you go to the top of this page - there is a link to Private Messages just under where it says Welcome, Doke01. Click on that and you will be able to see the message from me about the player.

Thanks

Zoe

[doke01]

Zoe,

Here it is. You can use the buttons images on player2.jpg.

Thanks :)

Doug

[doke01]

Zoe,

The player is 180x440 pixels.

[doke01]

Zoe,

Info boxes should have top tags, featured commentors and top searches. Of course the player will have to be in there somewhere. The list is in order of importance with the first being the most important so if you need to drop something drop top searches first.

Doug

[Zoe]

Hello Doug,

Here are some changes.

[doke01]

Zoe,

Could you move the right column down under the search bar and make it the center column/box and put Top Tags and Feature Commentators on the right?

Could you center the PodGlo logo and also center the Search on the red bar?

I am going to send you the font tonight that I would like for "What do you Speak!" and could you make it black with quotes around it? We use it on our business cards this way.

Could you make the top of the Top Tags and Featured Commentators boxes the same as the top 20 box (red with white text and rounded corners)?

Could you remove the blue bar on top completely and put a login at the top right like at the top right on this site: http://vlip.com/?

Could you make the yellow bar on the top 20 the light blue used in the player and make the text black?

Could you change Get it! in the Top 20 bar do Demo! ?

Rather then placing the badge over the player can we place it above the player? It would be great if you could see the entire player.

Zoe, I feel like I am bossing you about but I really appreciate your hard work!

Thanks,

Doug

[Zoe]

Hello Doug,

>>
Zoe, I feel like I am bossing you about but I really appreciate your hard work!

lol - you just know what you want. :) It's better than someone saying they don't like something and then you have to guess why. :)

Will work on those changes.

[doke01]

Zoe,

Here is the updated logo with the tag line.

Thanks :)

Doug

[Zoe]

Do you have a larger version of the logo?

[doke01]

Zoe,

Sure. Let me know how big do you want it to be and I will get it optimized and get it out.

Doug

[Zoe]

Try it at 800px wide. Then I can always scale it down. :)

Thanks

Zoe

[doke01]

Zoe,

Here the are in .ai .eps and .jpg

Doug

[Zoe]

ah perfect! thanks

[doke01]

Zoe,

I need something soon for this, I am running out of time.

Doug

[Zoe]

Hi Doug,

Sorry, I do most of my designing on the weekends. Been working hard this week and haven't had much time. Weekend now though so I will see what I can do. :)

Zoe

[Zoe]

Hello Doug,

I am sorry for the delay. Here are the changes you requested. :)

[doke01]

Zoe,

Looking good! Ran it by my partner and there are just a couple of final things we need and it is done.

1. Could you change the logo back to the original colors and use the original blue and red throughout the site. You've done a good job at making it minimal like we wanted now we want the color to pop!

2. Could you align the height of the center box and the boxes on the right with the left box?

That's it! If it looks good we are done! Hopefully you can do this today or tomorrow.

Thanks,

Doug

[doke01]

Zoe,

One final thing I forgot to add, could you round the top corners of the search bar like the others?

Thanks,

Doug

[Zoe]

Hello Doug,

>> Hopefully you can do this today or tomorrow.

Unfortunately I work during the week and participate on this site during my spare time. I will be able to make the colour changes sometime today, however creating the HTML version take a number of hours and I wouldn't be able to do that until the weekend sorry. :(

Zoe

[Zoe]

Hi Doug,

Here are the colour changes. :)

[doke01]

Zoe,

No problem with the weekend, I'm happy to know it will be done. Now everyone is telling me it's too red! I am beginning to feel how you must feel. Can you try this..make the search bar and headers blue, the go button red and leave everything else the same.

P.S.(Don't forget to line up the bottom of the boxes).

Thanks,

Doug

[Zoe]

Hi Doug,

lol. Will change the colours.

What do you mean by the headers?

Also, lining up the bottom of the boxes is tricky once you start adding content. I can make it look pretty in the design program but in the real world they will rarely line up. :) I will see if I can pull some tricks from my sleeve when I code it up.

On a side note: for officials - could you officially announce the winner so we can move it through to the revisions forum. :)

Thanks Doug - I will make the colour changes before the weekend so you can take one last look.

Zoe

[doke01]

Zoe,

By headers I mean the search bar, the featured commentators bar, the top tags bar and the menu bar (popular, favorites, etc.).

Anything you can do with the bottom would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Doug

[Zoe]

Hello Doug,

Murphy got me and I have had a graphics card failure. :( Forced me into upgrading my computer which I am organising straight away. I am half way through the HTML coding and you are first on my list as soon as I get my new computer up and going in the next day or two.

Zoe

[doke01]

Zoe,

We have a conference in four days. It is crucial you get this to us as soon as you can.

Good luck!

Doug

[Zoe]

Hi Doug,

I am taking the files with me to work today so hopefully I can work on them there. ;)

Zoe

[Zoe]

Hello Doug,

Looks like I wont get my computer sorted for a number of days so as I said I bought the files with me to work and have stayed back tonight. I have the HTML files for you - Please check your PM - so that you can get started ASAP - and I will finish tidying up the PSD file for you tomorrow.

Thanks

Zoe

[Zoe]

Hello Doug,

Please check your PM with a link to download the files. Included is the request change for the GO button. :)

A pleasure working with you on this project.

Thanks

Zoe

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