[Project Complete] Due Sept 4th- Careers site template - $425 - 1 Page, PSD only

[trevorh]

Admin code added by Abby - 6KH87613JK0340115

Hello all, this contest is for a one page, PSD only web template. All of the page content and photos can be found inside the following zip file:

http://www.printaudit.com/Recruiting.zip

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Due: Deadline extended to September 4.

Thanks!

[abby]

Client,
Please copy and paste these questions http://www.designoutpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7842 into a message here in your project and answer them. This will save the designers time and this will help them better serve your project. Thank you

[trevorh]

Abby, I addressed most of these questions in the content file in the .zip. However, I will respond to all of these questions in a post when I get back from to the office on Tuesday. Thanks!

[trevorh]

Please refer to the content.doc within the recruiting.zip file I posted above for more details and photos you can use.

Company Details

1a) Name of Company

Print Audit

1b)Company Tag Line or slogan:

Have fun, build great products, wow the customer.

1c) Do you have a company logo?

Yes, refer to .zip file.


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, but refer to sitecontent.doc for more details.

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

We develop print management tools that allow companies to analyze, reduce and recover their printing and photocopying costs.

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

This contest is to create a careers portal for our website. The plan is to link to it from job sites such as monster.com and entice people to come and work for us.

Website Details

1b) Do you have an existing website? If so, what is the URL?

http://www.printaudit.com

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 like the idea of having a large eye catching banner on top of the site, similar the following sites:

http://www.salesbrain.net
http://www.karo.com

I like the “fun” aspect of the following pages:

http://www.red5studios.com/about/team/
http://www.red5studios.com/offices/oc/

Their color scheme is a little on the dark side though – your design should be more cheerful.

3b) What colors or color schemes would you like?

Please refer to the sitecontent.doc in the .zip file for a detailed explanation.

4b) List the Navigation links for your Site:

Home, Current Openings, Meet Our People, About


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

Clean, fun but still professional.

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

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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:

All required images are included in .zip file. Feel free to use stock photos too if needed.


Deadlines and Deliverables

1c) What is the deadline for your template design?

August 18.

2c) Will you require HTML coding? (Yes/No)

No.

3c) If so, will you require it to be ONLY CSS layout? (Yes/No --- {fees})

4c) How many pages coded will you require delivered? ({fees})

One.

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

Refer to the recruiting.zip file.

[Fabian]

Hi Trevor,I'll be posting mine in a day or two.

[Elena]

Hello,
I'm working on my version too.

Elena

[trevorh]

Hello everyone, how are the designs coming? Anything I can help with or clarify? Thanks.

[BrianDove]

hi Trevor,
here is an idea from me.
I tried to follow your requirements as close as I could. :) I look forward to your feedback on that one.

Thanks,

Brian

[trevorh]

Thanks for starting us off Brian.

- You have the right idea with the layout, but while the design is clean I think it's a little too plain. For example the employee picture and the one under growth could be fancier. The build great products and wow the customer sections in the banner also look pretty plain.

- I like the blue you used but I'm not a big fan of the green/teal color...we've slowly been moving away from it. You could try something more cheerful like orange or red.

- The growth picture and description doesn't really look like it's a part of the puzzle pieces. It looks like it's part of the right hand menu.

Thanks.

[Fabian]

Hi Trevor,this is what I had in mind.

[Aliska]

Hello
Please check concept from me.

[Aliska]

And small modification

[trevorh]

Aliska - I may not have been clear enough about the core values section. Refer to BrianDove and Fabian’s designs. The 3 core value pictures (Growth, Respect, and Fun and Play) should not all show at the same time. Instead they should appear as a link or puzzle piece, or some other cool design that when clicked on will then display a picture and section related that that link. One section will be displayed by default. Doing it this way I won’t have to create separate pages for each of the core values. Also, the banner should be collage style with our pictures, as the others have done.

Fabian – I’d like to see more color. I like the blue but I would also use a more cheerful color in there like orange or red. Think of your Facilities Manager template design The puzzle pieces look pretty plain. Any other ways of doing that section? You don't have to use puzzle pieces. The collage could use more color also – the Print Audit 5 box looks a little tacked on.

Thanks!

[trevorh]

I'm going to try to find some sample collage style banners that I like.

[trevorh]

Here are some sample banners I've found that I like the look of. Rather than trying to blend the pictures together as some of you have done, I think you can get a less cluttered look by using some kind of a square effect (not sure what the real word for this is) to do the different sections/pictures:

http://www.cbn-atl.org/images/home_collage.jpg

http://www.v1s.com/web-banner-squares.jpg

http://www.mcmillanmanor.com/images/bannerHOME.jpg

http://phl.vlending.com/files/2/a/2a58b7f07ab6a58ebffdca5f12b8f5e9/43724-collage-banner.jpg

[OffbeatDesign]

Thanks

[trevorh]

Offbeat, I like the brightness of it but I’d prefer that you used our blue more – the blue from the Print Audit 5 box. The blue should be the primary color but I definitely like the idea of using red or orange too. The collage might a bit too over the top. See my comments about the collages in my previous post.

Thanks.

[trevorh]

A general comment for everyone: I'd like the quote part of the employees testimonial section to stand out more. I would bold that text to make it more visible. Thanks.

[OffbeatDesign]

Thanks for the feedback

[OffbeatDesign]

Version 3

[OffbeatDesign]

Version 4

[BrianDove]

will post my revision soon!
:)
brian

[trevorh]

Offbeat, it looks too busy/cluttered. Partly due to the large images you are using in it. I'd prefer a cleaner look for the banner.

[OffbeatDesign]

Version 5

[OffbeatDesign]

Smaller, cleaner banner

[BrianDove]

heres something new from me :D

thanks!
brian

[Christian]

Hey Trevor, here goes the work in progress. I'll have the polished up version by tomorrow morning. The printer could be done in flash, with the profile pictures printing ever 20 secs or so on. And the tiles in the main graphic could use some smooth flash effects too, but still tweaking their overall look. :) And the lil guy that left that's peeking could be drawn to look like the actual guy that left, just for fun. :D

[Fabian]

Thank you for your feedback.Here is a revised version that uses a simple tabbed system for the values sections.This allows for larger images to be used,giving the site a enjoyable interactive visual IMO:)

[clink]

I'm working on a design for you :)

[trevorh]

Christian, did you mean to post a design? I don't see one.

[trevorh]

Brian, I like the look of the puzzle pieces at the bottom. It would be nice if we could fit in the associated pictures as well though. The banner is looking better but it looks a little inconsistent. For example you have the pictures in the Have Fun section oversized and rotated but the ones in the other sections are straight and smaller. Your banner is wider than the sections below…I think the page would look better if the whole thing was the same width.

Fabian, better but the banner looks pretty crowded can you try to make it look cleaner? You don’t need the ribbon or the thumbs up in there. The notepad style you’re using for the testimonial section doesn’t really suite the rest of your design.

Offbeat, can you try to find a middle ground between the banners in #24 and #25. #24 might look too busy and #25 a bit too plain. The employee testimonials section can be smaller.

Thanks.

[trevorh]

Fabian here's another banner idea for you: You could have our team photo with the toilet paper form most of the background of the banner and then have photos for the other sections on top of it. Kind of like you do in the Have Fun section and similar to the cbn-atl.org sample i posted above.

[OffbeatDesign]

Here you go

[trevorh]

A note for everyone: I'd prefer that the menu was below the banner as it's more visible that way.

[OffbeatDesign]

Thanks

[trevorh]

I will be extending the deadline by a few days in case anyone else wants to join.

[clink]

That's great thankyou. Expect my design tomorrow or Sunday latest.

[BrianDove]

update:

thanks

[Fabian]

One suggestion for a very clean look to the header is to start in the large background image shown then slide or some fade-in the other pictures. The result could be some nice flash transitional effects.

This offers a clean solution for getting your message across as well as not blocking out any of your staffs smiling faces.

Imagine the outcry if Julie got a great big picture covering her face ;)

[Christian]

Here you go Trevor, just noticed the last one didn't upload. This is the next go, though still tweaking a bit!(and still working on "puzzle" graphic) Also, have some ideas for the banner, some with flash, some without like perhaps having each of the current panels holding each section with each slogan, or just switching tiles and slogans every few secs. And if you want to make it even flash'ier you can have the little guy I was talking about pop his head up once in a while above the corresponding text.
:D




Christian Sanfiel

[clink]

My design should be ready to show later today. Thanks. :)

[clink]

Ok, this is my concept. I tried the square collage idea that you suggested in several variations but found that it really didn't help your slogan to be readable so tried my own concept. It would still be very possible to impliment flash into the header and it has a kind of 'flashy' feel even when static in my opinion.

I tried to go with something very professional yet fun and welcoming. Feedback is greatly appreciated :)

[clink]

I also had this idea for a cool way to show the layout in browser:

layout (http://www.pushstandards.com/printaudit.html)

[Elena]

Hello Trevirh,
Is your project still open for new entries?

Elena

[trevorh]

Elena, yes. I'm extending the deadline to August 22.

[trevorh]

I'll post feedback for all the new entries shortly.

[Elena]

Great! I'm working on my version :)

Elena

[trevorh]

General comments – A lot of you are making the picture and bullet points that are associated with the core values too small. Those bullet points will be comprised of 3 short sentences, so there has to be room for that.

BrianDove – So far I probably like yours the best. It could however be more cohesive for lack of a better word. I’d like the whole design to gel together better. For example the menu should be a part of the banner above rather than on its own. I know you did it to add a fun element, but I don’t think I like the look of having the employees testimonial section crooked. It looks out of place like that. See my general comments above about the puzzle pieces. You may have to reposition the picture and bullet points below the puzzle pieces to make more room.

Offbeat – I generally like your design but still not crazy about the banner – I just looks like there’s too much going on in it. Your testimonial section can be a lot smaller still.

Clink – Good start, the banner looks good -- I would however remove one of the pictures of the trophy and replace it with a customer quote. Rather than have a footer on top, then a space for our logo and then the banner, you may want to simplify things by putting the white version of our logo on the blue bar on top. The style (or maybe just the color) of the employee testimonial section looks a little out of place.

Christian – Looks pretty good but it’s too incomplete to judge. Can you use the blue from our brochures for the background/fonts? Also, our logo should be in color and you should be using the product pictures and trophies for the Build Great Products and Wow the Customer sections on banner. The Have Fun part looks good.

Fabian – I’d rather have all the elements in the banner. The other parts could be laid on top as squares or something. I would make the faces smaller to fit in more people. Perhaps part of the image could be faded to reduce the problem of putting squares over people’s faces. I don’t mind how you did the tabs for the core values, but the main page content looks a little plain. Any way to spruce it up? For example, adding borders around the pictures or using some other effects. The green you're using in the menu doesn’t suit the rest of the site.

I will try to narrow these down after the next round of entries.

Thanks.

[clink]

Thanks for the feedback, I'll have changes for you soon. However, I wasn't exactly sure what you meant about the logo, do you mean just get rid of the top blue bar? Thanks.

[trevorh]

I don't mind the look of your blue bars, but having all that space their just for the logo isn't ideal. I'd rather the logo was just on the banner or on a bar on top or something.

[clink]

Ok thanks, I'll see what I can come up with :)

[BrianDove]

here is a revised version from me.
thanks!
brian

[trevorh]

Brian, you changed it too much :) I liked the first banner you made – although I do like the new shinier menu and the new employees section better, but preferred the longer, narrower style of the old testimonial section. The page looks a little squished now. Can you find a middle ground between the old design and the new, using the old banner instead?

[Elena]

Hello,
Here is my version!

Hope you will like it ;)

Elena

[BrianDove]

heres a mixture of what you liked! :)

Brian

[Christian]

I'll post my final version late tonight. :D

[trevorh]

Elena, it looks pretty nice but a little bit too crowded. Here are some suggestions:

- I think you could remove the orange balls (with the 1, 2, 3 on them) from the banner. I would also remove the employee picture and ‘Meet more employees’ box from the banner. The our team section should only have one person it, along with a quote. I’m not sure if I like the shade of green you’re using in the banner. Any other color ideas there?

Brian, that’s better. The logo looks a little out of place on top there. What if you used the white version of our logo and just put it on the blue ground above the ‘Wow the customer' part of the banner? I would try incorporating the Employee Testimonial section right into the page, rather than having it float on top. The employees quote should be more visible.

Thanks.

[trevorh]

Brian, I also think it would look better if you used a single background color or gradient, instead of using 2 colors (blue and gray).

[Elena]

Thank you for your feedback!
I'm working on changes. Will do my best.

Elena

[BrianDove]

updated version :)

Brian

[Elena]

Here is changed versions.

Elena :)

[Elena]

...

[Elena]

... and some play with shades and colors.

[trevorh]

BrianDove, I think I preferred the puzzle pieces on the darker blue background. The logo might look better on the top right of the page. Can you do the headshots in a way that does not show so much of the background? I’d like it to be mainly just a headshot. The reason being because most of our employee pictures have multiple people in the background.

Elena, I don’t like having the entire background blue, so I prefer ‘print_audit_changes_5.jpg’. That one is a little plain however. Also, I like that banner better than the others. Anyway to add more color to that section but not have it entirely blue? If possible I would like to see puzzle pieces instead of the tree.

Clink, Christian and everyone else, are you working on revisions too? I am on vacation next week so I am going to have to extend the deadline until I get back on September 4. In the meantime feel free to post any revisions or other ideas you may have. I won’t be able to post feedback until I get back however.

Thanks.

[trevorh]

I'm back. Is anyone working on revisions?

[trevorh]

Please post any revisions as soon as you can. I have to make a decision in the next few days.

[Elena]

Hello,
I'll post revisions right now!

[Elena]

Here is changes. I've added some colors but not too much so as the text section looks not too overload.

The note about Our Core Value.
For better clarity the background of the left "Value section" will be changeble accordingly the active pazzle link. The example of how it's work at my next posted image.

Thanks,
Elena

[Elena]

The example.

[trevorh]

Brian, one more thing, can you try to integrate the blue puzzle piece section more with the above? The text in the white section should really be introducing the core values that are below. Right now the sections look too separate from each other.

[BrianDove]

I hope that one is better :)

Rgds
Brian

[clink]

Hi Trevorh, sorry for the lack of contact, I've been really ill for the past couple of weeks with flu that doesn't seem to want to shift. I'll try and get a revision to you in time but don't hold things up for me as I'm still not in a good state to work.

Good luck with the rest of the project!

[Christian]

Last minute tweaks. I'll post late tonight. :)

[trevorh]

Elena, I like the overall layout but a couple things I don’t like are the ‘steel’ effect you use around various elements such as the banner. This is hard to describe but can you give the fonts and colors more of a business feel. For example the green/red fonts you use in the banner almost look like a Christmas theme. Can you give your puzzle pieces a less cartoony look, similar to how Brian has done them? Your puzzle pieces don't fit together very well :) Thanks.

[Elena]

Hello Trevorth :)

I'm working on chages :) Will upload revisions soon.

Thank you for great feedback!
Elena

[Elena]

Here is changes.

[Elena]

and the second version with green slogan and white pazzle.

[Christian]

Hey Trevor! Finally, here's the design I've been working on. I had to sort of start from scratch since I wasn't really loving my other design. Hope you like this one! :D Integrated the Testimonials Printer into the navigation bar. Instead of printing straight out, the page would print straight but then sort of fall and tilt a bit on the table, giving it this less stiff, more natural flow.

[Christian]

Minor Change, Careers in orange.

[trevorh]

Christian, Brian, Elena – I think you all have most of the page looking pretty good. The part I’m still not satisfied is the puzzle pieces and accompanying picture/description. I think that the space you’re leaving for the bullet points is too small. The descriptions beside the pictures will actually consist of 3 short (I’d say at least 10 word) bullet points. Most of you are only pointing one short sentence. Can you all try rearranging that section to allow for more bullet points? You can use more space on the page.

Christian – Your design looks pretty sharp but your page is so short (the white section) that it looks like it’s cut off. See my comments above rearranging the puzzle pieces/pictures and making that section longer. The puzzle pieces might look better if they were different colors.

Brian – I liked how the puzzles looked on the blue background, what if you faded the main section from white to blue? That way the puzzles could be on a blue background but the section above could still be white and it would still look like one section. Your white section looks a little plain compared to how the others have done it. The logo on top of the banner still looks kind of out of place. There must be a better place to position that.

Elena – Better, but see my general comments above about the Core Value section. Also, is there a different color you can use instead of silver/steel effect you’re using around the banner, etc? I’m not crazy about the steel look  I’d prefer if the Our Team section was made longer and skinnier, instead of being wide like that – see how the others have done it. The ‘Why has only one person’ section to the left of it could be made bigger.

Sorry for dragging this out so long. Hopefully I can pick a winner after this round.

Thanks.

[BrianDove]

here is the latest version with some other minor modifications :)
Look forward to hear your feedback,
thanks!
Brian

[Christian]

Here's my next design! Updated a few things. Added the quote you requested to the award :D

[trevorh]

Brian, It would better if you could fit the logo into that first orange box in the banner without making that section of the banner taller than the others.

Christian, better but can you make the picture beside Growth a little bigger. If need be you can make the puzzle pieces a bit smaller. Is there a different color you can use for the Respect piece? I’m not crazy about teal. Also, I would make the Our Core Values text all one color.

Thanks.

[trevorh]

Christian, can you show what your entire page looks like? Your screenshot is cut off at the bottom.

[trevorh]

Elena are you working on a revision?

[Christian]

Here you go Trevor! :D

[trevorh]

I don't think the purple suits the rest of the page. Other ideas? I would make the word 'Growth' a color other than orange. Also I would make the Growth picture bigger yet. I liked the mirror effect your used for that picture in your original design. Thanks.

[trevorh]

I would make the text under the Growth bullet points a little bolder too.

[BrianDove]

update... :)

thanks
brian

[Christian]

Here's the next tweak :)

[trevorh]

Sorry for the delay. I'm thinking about it and will try to make a decision in the next day or so.

[Elena]

Hello Trevorh,

Sorry for keeping silence.
I was not be able to work on my computer last days.
I'll post changes today or tomorrow.

Thanks,
Elena

[trevorh]

Christian, can you decrease the perspective effect on the growth picture a bit?

[Christian]

Here you go!

[trevorh]

Christian, ignore my hybrid post if you saw it :) Can you trying putting a very light white to gray gradient in the background of the white section like your original design had? Also, can you make the employee quote larger, with less text. Also ad a link to that section that says 'Meet more employees'. I would remove the party hat guy.

Thanks.

[trevorh]

Christian, I liked how you had the Fun and Games section larger in your first design, by putting part of it below the employee testimonial. I wouldn't mind seeing something like that on this design.

[Elena]

I'll post my revisions tonight.

Elena

[Christian]

Here are the next few tweaks. :) A few things may look blurry for now, but that's just temporary.

[Elena]

Here is my changes :)

Thanks very much,
Elena

[Elena]

another puzzle versions...

[Elena]

... and with white font color.

[trevorh]

Christian, while I like the new hybrid design, you had to add extra paragraph text above the puzzle pieces to fill in space, so that probably won’t work. I don’t want to have that much text on the page. Can you go back to the design in #94 but remove party hat guy. Also can you change ‘Our Core Values’ to a different color, such as blue? You might also want to change Growth picture to the partying one you used in you first design and change that heading to Fun and Play. Keep the large employee testimonial quote and ‘meet more…’ button from the newest design.

After this I’ll put the designs to a vote here in our office.

[Christian]

Here you go Trevor!

[trevorh]

Christian wins! Thanks for your work everyone, I appreciate it.

[Elena]

Condratulations Cristian!

Nice design and very cool header idea...

[Christian]

Great! Thanks Elena. Any revisions you may need Trevor, I'll be waiting. :D

[trevorh]

I will let you know soon. In the meantime please start working on this:

http://www.designoutpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14521

Thanks.

[trevorh]

Christian, the puzzle pieces should have a hover over effect, can you show me what that will look like? Thanks.

[Zoe]

Congratulations Christian.

This thread has been moved to the revisions forum where you can continue to make any modifications required.

Please post back here once you have received the files.

Thank you

Zoe

[Christian]

Files Sent*

[BlueCherryGraphics]

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