[Project Complete] Due Apr 7th - Template for rental center website - $475

[tarpnman]

Admin code added by Abby - 4P759807TH8625847 (added $60 1MD91169NM994874H)

Tarpnman: Rental Center Website
Due: April 7, 2008

Company Details

1a) Name of Company: Brainerd General Rental

1b) Company Tag Line or slogan: Relax...We've Got You Covered!

1c) Do you have a company logo? http://bamsites.com/graphicdesign/brainerdgen/brndgnllogo.gif

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.)? http://bamsites.com/graphicdesign/brainerdgen/TrailerOnly.gif

1e) What is the nature of your business?: Briefly describe your products or services: Rental Center
Equipment for Rent
New and Used Equipment for Sale
Service Work on equipment
Secure Storage units for rent.

1f) Who is your target market? Who are you hoping to reach with your site?
Homeowners
Contractors
Tradesman
Do-it-yourselfers

Website Details

1b) Do you have an existing website? If so, what is the URL? http://brainerdrental.com

2b) 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.
http://www.zieglercat.com/

3b) What colors or color schemes would you like? Use the Color schemes from the logo and the image included. http://bamsites.com/graphicdesign/brainerdgen/TrailerOnly.gif

4b) List the Navigation links for your Site:
Top Horizontal: Home | About | Rental | Sales | Service | Storage | Contact

Vertical: Left Side:
Location
Hot Deals
What's New
Testimonials
Equipment Support
Suggestions
Resources


5b) What type of look are you trying to achieve? (e.g. clean, high-tech, conservative, warm, flashy, etc.) Looking for something like the TrailerOnly.gif above. Perhaps a racing type appearance without being too extreme. Fast and shiny.

6b) Please provide the addresses of competitors' sites, if possible: Nothing of note.

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: Logo will be forth coming.


Deadlines and Deliverables

1c) What is the deadline for your template design? Monday April 7, 2008

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

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

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



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

I like the idea of the six navigational boxes on the Zeigler site (http://www.zieglercat.com/). May want to incorporate those in the following order:

Rental Items
Sales: New and Used
Service
Secure Storage
Hot Deals
Our Team

[Fabian]

Hello,

Here is my entry.

Thanks
Fabian

[imot]

Hi :)

Here is one from me. Let me know what do you think

http://www.myoujou.com.ar/outpost/brainerd_web.jpg

[imot]

A variation...

http://www.myoujou.com.ar/outpost/brainerd_webV2.jpg

[pdesignstudio]

modern vision:
http://pdesignstudio.com/outpost/brainerd.png

[Kogar]

Hi,

Here is my entry.

Regards

[tarpnman]

Letting you all know we are in the decision making process right now and will keep you all posted. Thanks so much for your beautiful work!

[tarpnman]

Letting you all know we are in the decision making process right now and will keep you all posted. Thanks so much for your beautiful work!

Hello,

Here is my entry.

Thanks
Fabian

[tarpnman]

We have selected the Imot design for the rental center. Thanks to all contestants for outstanding work, very much appreciated.

Hi :)

Here is one from me. Let me know what do you think

http://www.myoujou.com.ar/outpost/brainerd_web.jpg

[imot]

Thank you for choose my design. I´ll send you the files asap

[tarpnman]

Hi imot

You need not send the files yet, there will be some adjustments to the header and a few other items. I hope to have them for you today sometime.

Thank you for choose my design. I´ll send you the files asap

[tarpnman]

Thanks Kogar!

Excellent design. I have a new one: Midwest Security from tarpnman, just posted. Please feel free to try that one.

Thanks
tarpnman

Hi,

Here is my entry.

Regards

[imot]

Ok. I`ll be waiting :)

[tarpnman]

Thanks pdesignstudio!

Excellent design. I have a new one: Midwest Security from tarpnman, just posted. Please feel free to try that one.

Thanks
tarpnman

modern vision:
http://pdesignstudio.com/outpost/brainerd.png

[tarpnman]

Thanks for your entry Fabian, nice work as usual. Thanks Kogar!

I have a new one: Midwest Security from tarpnman, just posted. Please feel free to try that one.

Thanks
tarpnman


Hello,

Here is my entry.

Thanks
Fabian

[tarpnman]

Imot,

Here's some additional information I'd like you to consider for the website. We will use the first design with the black header area.

1. Add the image of http://bamsites.com/Steve500cropped.jpg (You'll need to cut him out) holding the tool in place of your current guy with the had hat.
2. Change the font on the "Relax..." something like what's on the "Boys of Summer" jpg (http://bamsites.com/sources/BGR/BoysofSummer.jpg)
3. Increase the size of logo (upper left) by about 50%)
4. Add a telephone number in fairly large type in the upper right area of the header. You can use 218-828-2815.
5. Put in the hours of operation similar to that pdesign did.
6. Use a navigational font on the left column similar to what Kogar used. You could use that throughout the design for headings and navigation.
7. The Footer: Left region should read: Locally Owned and Operated. Middle Region: text nav = Home | Site Map | Contact, linked accrodingly. Right Region: cBrainerd General Rental. (the c is a copyright symbol)
8. IMOT can you give me a quote on rendering the template to html code?

Thanks, all for now.

We have selected the Imot design for the rental center. Thanks to all contestants for outstanding work, very much appreciated.

[BlueCherryGraphics]

We have selected the Imot design for the rental center. Thanks to all contestants for outstanding work, very much appreciated.

Congratulations Augustin.

This thread has been moved to Revisions.

Client, please post a note in the thread once you receive the finals.

Thanks! :)

[imot]

Imot,

Here's some additional information I'd like you to consider for the website. We will use the first design with the black header area.

1. Add the image of http://bamsites.com/Steve500cropped.jpg (You'll need to cut him out) holding the tool in place of your current guy with the had hat.


Hi,
I can´t see the link image. It doesn´t work the link.

[tarpnman]

[client requested image be deleted]

[imot]

Hi tarpnman,

Do you need html (tables+css) or a css tableless coding?
Here are the changes that you request :)
http://www.myoujou.com.ar/outpost/brainerd_web copy.jpg

[tarpnman]

I IMOT

Just letting you know I am awaiting feedback from client and will pass along any further revision instruction.

Thanks for your patience.

tarpnman

Hi tarpnman,

Do you need html (tables+css) or a css tableless coding?
Here are the changes that you request :)
http://www.myoujou.com.ar/outpost/brainerd_web copy.jpg

[tarpnman]

Hi Imot,

I have some revisions for you. Here we go:

1. Header: We'll put a different phone number upper right. It is 218-828-RENT. Perhaps you can make it the same look as is on the image of the trailer. It is here: http://bamsites.com/source/bgr/TrailerOnly.gif. I'd make it fairly large and prominent.

2. Remove all navigation from the yellow/gold band bordering the lower header. Replace it with the following centered:
brainerdrental.com | 218-828-2815 You may add a gradient or outward bevel to that gold border, kind of like the buttons below.

3. Left hand navigation will be as follows:
About
Location
What's New
How To
Testimonials
Press Room
Suggestions

4. Main Body graphic button navigation. I'll discuss individual buttons from left to right, top then bottom.

First Box | Rental Items: This will be sectioned into four sections of equal dimension with individual photos showing a Skid Steer (like the image in the second square), next a power saw, next (lower left) lawn mower, next (lower right) Rototiller.

Second Box | Sales: This one will be halved horizontally (top/bottom) and then the lower half split vertically. A skid steer, like the one on http://www.asvi.com/. The lower left box will contain the Toro logo; and the right will contain and image of a black sign: http://www.signoutfitters.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=5505.

Third Box Service | Image of a techician working on a tool

Fourth Box | Secure Storage: Split Vertically (left/right) Left image part of the current one; right image a portable storage unit like this one: http://brainerdrental.com/images/movabl12.jpg

Fifth Box | Hot Deals: Leave as is for now.
Sixth Box | Our Team: use part of this photo: http://bamsites.com/source/bgr/BoysofSummerCropped700.jpg

Bottom Footer Nav. Limit the bottom navigation to:
Home | Site Map | Contact Everything else on either side can remain the same.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks

Tarpnman

[imot]

:)

http://www.myoujou.com.ar/outpost/brainerd_web2.jpg

[tarpnman]

Thanks imot.

The large nav buttons (the main body area ones) need a little more definition around them, especially around the top area to make them pop off the page a bit more. What do you suggest?

Also make the font on the gold separator bar, near the header, the same as is here: http://bamsites.com/source/bgr/traileronly.gif

Here's some more:

http://bamsites.com/source/bgr/ImotRevFinal2.png

[tarpnman]

One last one.

The footer text looks weak. Is that just the jpg or does it need to be strengthened?

Thanks imot.

I'll invite you to take a look at the Security Systems one I posted last week. Let me know if you have time to give it a shot. Although the deadline has past, I'm going to extend it to April 26.

Let me know if you can make that.

[imot]

Hi,

Let me know if the service image is ok. If not please sendme an example of what your client want.
Thanks
Regads :)

http://www.myoujou.com.ar/outpost/brainerd_web21.jpg

[tarpnman]

Not seeing the graphic.

[tarpnman]

Forget the previous comment imot, I've got it now.

[tarpnman]

imot,

Here's a couple more.

Border text: brainerdrental.com - can you try a different font, maybe one like the logo font - abit stronger. Also next to it change the phone number to: 800-450-2848.

I sent a graphic earlier that didn't come through. Here is it:
http://bamsites.com/source/bgr/BGR_Rev42808.jpg

Remember to try the background color as a med to med dark gray - solid (no gradient) extending through the back of the website and taking over where the white main body borders are currently.

Let me know if you have any questions.

[tarpnman]

Also,

Can you give me a bid on rendering this to html code? I'll need the home page and a subpage, where the main body area (where the big buttons are now) will be white.

Thanks

[tarpnman]

One more!

I forgot to mention, it's on the graphic (bamsites) that I'd like you to rework the main phone number (upper right) with the font more like the "G" on the logo. Less bevel, a bit flatter - you could even make it a bit larger if you needed to.

[imot]

:)

http://www.myoujou.com.ar/outpost/brainerd_web22.jpg

[tarpnman]

imot,

did you see #29?

[tarpnman]

disregard the last note, it hadn't loaded yet, sorry.

I want the gray to extend behind the large buttons, replacing all the white border.

Imot i'll throw another $60 in the kitty on Th or Fri, so you can do the html as discussed as well. We're just about there!

Thanks for your patience

[tarpnman]

Is there a way to get the text on the large buttons to stand out more. They seem somewhat obscure.

[imot]

:)

http://www.myoujou.com.ar/outpost/brainerd_web23.jpg

[tarpnman]

Hi Augustin.

A couple more tweaks. I misunderstood the client, OK:

See this: http://bamsites.com/source/bgr/IMOT43008.png

Background: Make the entire background this gray (3F3F3F), that means eliminating the gradient. (add a new layer for this in case we decide to go back to the gradient :).

Main Phone Number: 218-824-RENT
On the border make the brainerdrental.com font like this:
http://bamsites.com/source/bgr/wwwtrailer.jpg

Let me know if you have any questions. I appreciate all the work!

[tarpnman]

Imot,

Background color: 3f3f3f is too dark, I think. If you try it and can barely see the difference between the black, try something lighter like #666565. The gray above in post #36 is too light.


Thanks

[tarpnman]

Hi Imot.

Did you get this info?

[abby]

Imot the additional $60 has been added.

[imot]

Hi, sorry I didn´t see this new info until today. I was seek the last two days. I will post a revison asap.

Sorry again.

[tarpnman]

Thanks Augustin.

[imot]

:)
http://www.myoujou.com.ar/outpost/brainerd_web24.jpg

[tarpnman]

Hi Imot,
You forgot to change the "brainerdrental.com" font on the border. Also, several of the large main buttons are not lined up properly. For example, sales: the upper gold portion is offset slightly to the left (iscierda?).
And, as directed earlier but not done: On the border make the brainerdrental.com font like this:
http://bamsites.com/source/bgr/wwwtrailer.jpg
Thank you!

[tarpnman]

Here's a link for the changes:
http://bamsites.com/source/bgr/imot5408.png

[imot]

:) I find the logo font for the brainerdrental.com! :tup:

[tarpnman]

OK,
I believe this is the last one, I mentioned it earlier:

On the gold border: italicize the brainerdrental.com. The phone number should read: 218-824-RENT (7368)

You can then prepare the html and we should be done!

[imot]

:)

[tarpnman]

OK,
Everything's perfect EXCEPT:

You got the phone number wrong on the border:

It should read, as directed in the previous post,
218-824-RENT (7368)
NOT 218-828-RENT

[tarpnman]

Once you're made that change, we are done.

Send me the coded home page and sub page (white body area) and all psd's, etc.

[imot]

Hi,

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[BlueCherryGraphics]

PROJECT UPDATE: moved to Template Archives.

[imot]

Hi,
Sorry for the delay, I didn´t see your pm.

Here is the font file