RESCUE Redesign $250

[azrescue]

(Admin code added by Palmer - 7878411X)

Organization Name: RESCUE
Contest Prize: $250

Deadline: February 6th, 2004 – although we may close the competition earlier if we find a design we love.

Winner Provides: Home page, Template file, CSS file (Style Sheet), If buttons are used, blank generic button for expansion

Organization Profile:
RESCUE is a registered 501c3 non-profit organization located in Phoenix, Arizona. We are an animal rescue organization in Maricopa County. Our focus is euthanasia list rescue from our county shelters. We are the last voice for the dogs and cats, who, through no fault of their own, find themselves awaiting death at our county pounds. RESCUE has no central facility and is driven by volunteers. Our motto - For every animal adopted, we are back at the pound rescuing another.

Since our inception in 1995, we have fulfilled that promise over 8,000 times. Those 8,000 dogs and cats wouldn't be enjoying their second chance at life today without RESCUE and the tremendous support we've received from our community and animal lovers everywhere. With Maricopa County still having one of the highest euthanasia rates in the nation, we have much work yet in front of us.

Domain Name: www.azrescue.org

What is the scope of this project? Redesign – Home page and template for other website pages. See the Background section below for more information.

Who is the intended audience: age: adults, sex: both economic standing: middle class and above to upper middle class, primarily better educated and semi-computer literate

Mood or tone: open, educational, informative and welcoming

Color psychology? Fits logo and new marketing brochure
Logo: www.azrescue.org/logo.jpg (http://www.azrescue.org/logo.jpg)
Brochure: www.azrescue.org/brochure (http://www.azrescue.org/brochure)

Any dynamic elements: The site is built with Java/MySQL for the underlying application, so we can generate dynamic content for "plug ins" to the template if necessary. For example: For Sponsorship Highlight (see below) % of Cats and % of Dogs Sponsored could be dynamically generated. Also need to provide someway for volunteers to log in – at a minimum a button for “Login” as on today’s home page (ideally login section with username and pw).

Who are your main competitors? www.azhumane.org, www.aawl.org

What resources can you provide?
1 Logo in jpg format – www.azrescue.org/logo.jpg (http://www.azrescue.org/logo.jpg) - we do not have the original file created from a graphics program.
2. Marketing brochure material and pictures – www.azrescue.org/brochure (http://www.azrescue.org/brochure)

Websites you like: www.ddfl.org (http://www.ddfl.org) and www.sfspca.org (http://www.sfspca.org), (both are a little bit too cluttered, but give an idea of how specific website areas are highlighted to user on the home page)

Background:
RESCUE’s current home page is more of an “About Us” page. The web page doesn’t drive users to specific areas. Instead the page gives a small synopsis about RESCUE and contains the “rainbow buttons”. The “rainbow buttons” list the pages included in each section of the website. Problem with Rainbow buttons is that all pages look like they have equal value and attention. In reality, we would like to “drive” our users to specific, important areas on the site.

It is critical to note – the site was designed with the intention that the public can participate with us in three basic ways – adopt, volunteer, donate. We want to maintain that meta intent while narrowing the choices at least until people get further into the site.

The areas of the site that we would like the new home page to highlight are the following:
• Highlight Sponsorships (www.azrescue.org/sponsor.shtml (http://www.azrescue.org/sponsor.shtml)) – Thing that % of Dogs and % of Cats Sponsored? Open for suggestions as well.
• View Cats (www.azrescue.org/servlet/meeowsearch/ (http://www.azrescue.org/servlet/meeowsearch/)) and View Dogs (www.azrescue.org/servlet/barksearch (http://www.azrescue.org/servlet/barksearch))
• Highlight Car Donations (www.azrescue.org/servlet/sponsor02?vehicle=1 (http://www.azrescue.org/servlet/sponsor02?vehicle=1))
• Highlight MatchMaker Process (www.azrescue.org/mmprocess.shtml (http://www.azrescue.org/mmprocess.shtml))
• Area to publish current/coming events – we have Events page (www.azrescue.org/events.shtml (http://www.azrescue.org/events.shtml)), but would like area on home page to push “this week’s events”.

RESCUE would like a new home page that includes our current logo. We do not want our logo redesigned. We’d like the new homepage template to be put to use on the rest of the site pages as well for consistency. So we’d like the home to have an “outer shell” consisting of a header, nav bar and footer that we can extend to the rest of the site.

Since we are not experts in web design, all recommendations are welcomed. If we’ve haven’t included important information, please let us know as well.

Looking forward to the contest!
Jennifer

[motiveX]

I will be on this!!!

I loooooooooooooove animals.

:tup: :wub: :woot:

[Huhhso]

Hello I plan to enter your contest, I will post a concept next week
Thanks!

[customb]

Hello,
I would like to enter. I will come with something on the next couple of days.

One question, is there any chance to let me change the fonts used in your logo?
Even not, don't worry I'll come up with something.

Thanks.
George.

[azrescue]

Thanks motiveX, huhhso, and customb! We look forward to your entries!

customb: About the font, I'm not sure we can change it simply because we don't have the original artwork. I'd say the font on the site doesn't have to match the logo font, as long as it doesn't look totally off. If we start running into problems, we can discuss again.

Thanks again everyone!
Jennifer

[jonmulk]

Hello Jennifer,

Here's an entry from me. I've tried to go with the same kinda look as you had on your brochure. Any amendments/feedback, let me know.

Cheers,


Jon

[jonmulk]

Argh! Forgot the login box....

Ah well, I shall await your feedback before making any changes.



Jon

[jonmulk]

Lol... also forgot the navigation!

I was focusing too much on the brochure when I designed it!




Gimme a few minutes, and I'll add the login & navigation.

[marengo]

<!--QuoteBegin-jonmulk+Jan 24 2004, 12:12 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (jonmulk @ Jan 24 2004, 12:12 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Lol... also forgot the navigation!

I was focusing too much on the brochure when I designed it!




Gimme a few minutes, and I'll add the login & navigation. [/b][/quote]
:D But it's nice

[jonmulk]

Cheers, Nat :blush:

[jonmulk]

Here's the modified template.


Cheers,



Jon

[Radu]

I plan to enter this contest too. :)

-Ruairi

[V + E + R + T]

<!--QuoteBegin-motiveX+Jan 15 2004, 11:49 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (motiveX @ Jan 15 2004, 11:49 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I will be on this!!!

I loooooooooooooove animals.

:tup: :wub: :woot: [/b][/quote]
Same here! :tup:

[azrescue]

Jonmulk - Thank you so much for the first entry! I wanted to let you know that I will post feedback on the page tomorrow. There are a lot of things that I like about the page. The delay in the feedback is due to the fact that there are three of us on the committee for the new page and the other two people were unavailable today to give your work the proper review it deserves. So our committment is to post feedback tomorrow. (Our goal is to have feedback within 24 hours of every entry - we are just a little off today.) I really like the way you've headed in the direction of the brochure - color, headings, etc - as this is a new brochure for us and integration will look more professional. Anyway more tomorrow...

wwwzone - We are looking forward to your entry as well!

Jennifer

[jonmulk]

Thank you, azrescue. :)

I shall look forward to the feedback.




Jon

[azrescue]

Jon,

As promised here is the feedback. First of all, as I said yesterday, thank you for such a great first entry. Your entry sparked a lot of email and good conversation between the three of us. It really made our team have to come together on what we each think a home page needs.

We really like how the page is similar to the brochure; it will look like we did the two items (brochure and site) in conjunction - thank you!. The one thing we’ve realized is that we don’t like the red and black colors – simply because it doesn’t seen as inviting to visitors. These colors are the more “violent/angry” colors which doesn’t go well with these sweet animals we are adopting out. :D So, we spent some time looking at the brochure and your template figuring out which elements made us like each of them. The elements are the way the brochure/template is broken up into sections, the animal pictures and the section phrases with the key words highlighted in different colors - this makes the phrase stand out as a section head and makes the key word stand out as well.

So for color, can you play around with colors that would look good with the blue balloon on the logo? The gray might work with the blue, but we are also open to any other color combination that you like with the blue as well.

As for the logo, we are thinking that maybe we should remove the wording piece so it’s just the dog/cat and balloon. This would simplify the logo and probably make it easier to fit design-wise on the page. The logo can stay in it’s current section, but if you find that you like it better someplace else, we are open here as well. I will try to remove the wording from the logo with my photo editor and repost the logo later this evening.

Now for some more specific changes in the columns we’d like to see.

In the left column,
- Instead of the “50% year later” stat, we would like to see the phrase – “Creating a new standard … where family is family.”

- Under the word RESCUE in red underneath the Lab, instead of the contact information can we have the phrase “Elevating the status of animals in society …”? The contact information can go at the bottom of the page?

- Can we have the red section not extend all the way across but just the length of the column?

In the middle column
- Can we change the top paragraph to the following?
RESCUE is the last voice for dogs and cats who through no fault of their own find themselves awaiting death at our county pounds. Since our inception in 1995, we’ve operated with the understanding that for every animal we place we will be back to rescue another facing an untimely death. We have fulfilled that - Can we have the red section not extend all the promise over 8,000 times. We are located in Phoenix, Arizona.

We welcome you to our only shelter, a virtual one. As you navigate our website, you will find three major avenues for you to participate in our mission: Adopt, Volunteer and Donate. We invite you to explore and get involved!

- Then below this paragraph, instead of the current paragraph can we have a section header called “What Makes RESCUE Different” In this section we will have a bulleted list of our differentiators. We haven’t come up with the exact list yet, so if you could just put some bullets there with random text that would be fine.

In the right column:
- Remove the German Shephard. Instead we’d like the top 75% of the column to be labeled “What’s New”. In this section we will put links to upcoming events, fundraisers (as you have now). And we will also add the same type of style (blurb and then link) for our other areas of focus – animal sponsorship, search for an animal, donate a vehicle, etc…)

- For the bottom 25%, this is where we would like the login/password. The majority of people visiting the site don’t log in, so having this at the bottom is fine and highlights our What’s New section more.

Lastly, in the top header, since we will have the Log In section on the home page, we’d like to remove that option from the header. Once you login, links are automatically added to pages to take volunteers back to their main page, so we don’t think the link is necessary in the header.

Thanks again for such a great template to get us started. We look forward to seeing the modifications!

Jennifer

[jonmulk]

Hello Jennifer,

Thanks for the very thorough and detailed feedback - much appreciated!
It's very late here in the UK, so I'm going to get me a good night's sleep and I'll be back in the morning to make the amendments to the template.

Take care,



Jon

[jonmulk]

Hello Jennifer,

As promised, here's the new and improved layout design. Anymore feedback, just let me know.

Cheers,



Jonathan

[customb]

I am really sorry for being late,
I had a very busy day, so I didn't touch the computer.

I hope tommorow I will post something on your contest.

George.

[customb]

I really loved to work on this one.

[azrescue]

customb - Thanks for the submission. It looks great. I'll provide feedback tomorrow after I confer with the team.

Jonathon,

The color changes are great; the page is much more inviting and the logo blends in better. There are a couple of small changes. For the four sections: Who is RESCUE?, What Makes RESCUE Difference?, What's New? and This Week's Events there is two different heading styles. Who is RESCUE has a different background. I'd like to see them all the same. I'm not sure if you had all in one style which would be the best. Can you try them both out and pick one? We're trying to make sure the bottom middle section stands out as seperate from the top section, so I'm thinking the same header would help here?

Secondly, could the cat picture be moved to the right side of the middle column. We'd like to see if this balances out the pictures since we took away the german shephard on the right.

Thanks again for making all the requested changes so quickly!
Jennifer

[motiveX]

:squint:

[azrescue]

Hello,

First of all, I wanted to tell you guys how impressed I am with the three designs. I've watched other contests prior to our contest and was impressed then. But now with our own contest I really am taken aback by your creativity. When someone gives me a blank piece of paper, frankly, I see a blank piece of paper. So to see three designs totally different is style, "personality", placement - I just become blown away. It is really wonderful to see such talent.

I hope this message isn't too long and painful. I can be overly verbose at times. But I want to make sure everyone knows we appreciate their work so much and that I am clear in what I communicate. You can probably tell by how structured I am exactly why a piece of paper stays blank to me - I'd just want to fill it with nice straight lines. :-)

Feedback for All Designs
As we've been looking at the designs again, we've noticed some things that should be changed on all of them, so rather than repeat the same information several times, I've listed it here at the top.

1.) RESCUE is moving away from using R.E.S.C.U.E. A Marketing firm has advised us that this is the way we should go with our name as most other organization whose name is an acronym don't use the "."s (example: ACLU). The only place we still have R.E.S.C.U.E. is in the logo, simply because at this point we don't know how to remove the periods. So for the designs, just stick with RESCUE in the text.

2.) Balance of cat and dogs for template portion of designs - Something that occured to me today is that the frame of the home page will be used as a template for the underlying pages on the site. On the home page of each of the three submissions there are both cats and dogs, but when I take the "frame" for each to use as a template, we will end up with just a dog (jonmulk), just a cat (customb) or mainly cats (motiveX). Is there some way your design frames can accomadate both a cat or a dog? Or if your design stays as is, can you suggest how we balance the template for other pages? Having just the cat or just the dog won't show the balance our organization has. (I personally am a dog person and the cats could disappear and I wouldn't notice, BUT 200 volunteers and who knows how many other supporters would come beat me up if this really happened. ;) ).

3.) We'd like to change the title of "Upcoming Events" to "Ways to Get Involved". The "What's New" section can stay exactly as is. In the Get Involved section we'd like to have the following 5 items in this order. The underlines represent a link to the appropriate page.

Support the Care of Our Animals – Become a Sponsor!
Help with Veterinary Costs – Apollo Program
Donate a Vehicle
Search for a Cat or Dog
Become a Volunteer

4.) Can we change the section head of "What Makes RESCUE Different" to "Why RESCUE?"

5.) In the Why RESCUE paragraph - I made a mistake and accidently cut and pasted the following words into the paragraph "- Can we have the red section not extend all the". Although it's just words that we can change when we implement the site, it's causing some team members to become distracted, so I agreed to ask to have it taken out since I made the mistake in the first place - sorry about that.

6.) Lastly, can we see the designs with the font of Verdana. I believe this will match the font of the brochure. If you really think the font is yucky and will mess up your design, please let us know - feedback is always welcome!

Feedback for George (customb)
We really liked the energy of your template and how well the logo blends with the colors and elements on the page. In the navigation bar, we really liked how you seperated the links with some space. We also like the seperation of the sections and how they stand out as unique but also flow together.

The items we would like to see changed are first the cat in the header. If it possible to use a fluffier or friendlier looking cat? But also maybe there is something better to put here considering the balance needed for cats and dog in the navigation/template portion of the page. Maybe a cat and dog? or maybe something else entirely?

For the What Makes RESCUE Different can this section be shifted just a little to the right by 1/4" or so?

For the dog can he be a little big and have a defined border. We'd just like to see how this looks - not sure if it will look good, but seeing will help.

For the navigation header, can you remove the Events link?

Next to the dog, can you replace "Adopt. Donate. Volunteer." with "Why RESCUE?" We noticed that the navigation bar, this header and then the text all contain these words so we have this same phrase repeated 3 times within 2.5 inches. I liked the look of the header, but do agree that this is probably a little much...


Feedback for Sean (MotiveX)

Your design is very slick and sophisticated. The main cat picture is really great simply because the cats look so content - a great subliminal message to send to potential adopters. :-) We also like the way you incorporated the phrase "Over 8000 lives" with the use of font size and color." The whole picture header is just so sophisticated with the layers of graphics and phrases blending in and out - it really gives us "pause".

The items we'd like to see changed are as follows.
- Underneath R.E.S.C.U.E., change the tagline to "Creating a New Standard"

- Over Adopt where it says "help save a life" change this to "where family is family"

- In the 8,000 lines phrase, is it possible to make the word "Second" stand out the way that "Chance at Life" stands out?

- As far as the 5 boxes with the small pictures of the dogs and cats, I don't think dogs stands out enough to create the balance mentioned in the general feedback. Is there a way to have more of a dog balance here. Larry (a team member) loves the current cats. I don't know if there's a way to keep the contented cat and add a lively dog, but this is what we'd like to see for balance.

- For the navigation bar on the right, to us this doesn't go as well with the picture on the right. And is maybe designed to fit the logo so we can get the logo on the page. We are very open to having the logo moved someplace else and doesn't need to be on the top - it could be in the lower right corner. We just need it somewhere on the page for identification. So for the navigation, is there a way to make it go with the picture portion of the header more? The links we'd like to see in the Navigation are: Home, Adopt, Volunteer, Donate, About Us, Contact, Login.

- Replace the Adopt from RESCUE/Steps to Adopt section with "Why RESCUE?" This is the last piece of wording material we are currently working on, so random text for that section is okay.

- Lastly in the What's New section/Upcoming Events, could the headers be in a third color to make them stand out more? We are bothered by the fact that they blend in and are cut off at the top. But I am thinking if they are a different color the being cut off wouldn't bother us? Also for the What's New Section can we see what it's like to have three items listed here? We think that at the most we would have three items in this area.

Our last question is about the 4 dogs at the bottom - would this be a section for us to highlight adoptable animals or is it just there as a design element?

[customb]

Thanks for your loooong feeeeeed-baaaack, it really helps.
I will come with updates asap...

I didn't understand what you mean with: "I liked the look of the header, but do agree that this is probably a little much..."

As for the Verdana font, I think will look to common if we will use it in the menus...
but I can do a separate one only with Verdana. My point of view is that to not stay so much on the brochure... a brochure is not a website.

Me coming soon :chef:


George.

[motiveX]

<!--QuoteBegin-azrescue+Jan 29 2004, 02:57 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (azrescue @ Jan 29 2004, 02:57 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Feedback for Sean (MotiveX)
Your design is very slick and sophisticated. The main cat picture is really great simply because the cats look so content - a great subliminal message to send to potential adopters. :-) We also like the way you incorporated the phrase "Over 8000 lives" with the use of font size and color." The whole picture header is just so sophisticated with the layers of graphics and phrases blending in and out - it really gives us "pause".

The items we'd like to see changed are as follows.
- Underneath R.E.S.C.U.E., change the tagline to "Creating a New Standard"

- Over Adopt where it says "help save a life" change this to "where family is family"

- In the 8,000 lines phrase, is it possible to make the word "Second" stand out the way that "Chance at Life" stands out?

- As far as the 5 boxes with the small pictures of the dogs and cats, I don't think dogs stands out enough to create the balance mentioned in the general feedback. Is there a way to have more of a dog balance here. Larry (a team member) loves the current cats. I don't know if there's a way to keep the contented cat and add a lively dog, but this is what we'd like to see for balance.

- For the navigation bar on the right, to us this doesn't go as well with the picture on the right. And is maybe designed to fit the logo so we can get the logo on the page. We are very open to having the logo moved someplace else and doesn't need to be on the top - it could be in the lower right corner. We just need it somewhere on the page for identification. So for the navigation, is there a way to make it go with the picture portion of the header more? The links we'd like to see in the Navigation are: Home, Adopt, Volunteer, Donate, About Us, Contact, Login.

- Replace the Adopt from RESCUE/Steps to Adopt section with "Why RESCUE?" This is the last piece of wording material we are currently working on, so random text for that section is okay.

- Lastly in the What's New section/Upcoming Events, could the headers be in a third color to make them stand out more? We are bothered by the fact that they blend in and are cut off at the top. But I am thinking if they are a different color the being cut off wouldn't bother us? Also for the What's New Section can we see what it's like to have three items listed here? We think that at the most we would have three items in this area.

Our last question is about the 4 dogs at the bottom - would this be a section for us to highlight adoptable animals or is it just there as a design element? [/b][/quote]
Our last question is about the 4 dogs at the bottom - would this be a section for us to highlight adoptable animals or is it just there as a design element?

I put that there, cause I thought it would be cool (I don't know if you have any kind of script or what not) to have each month a set of animals (2 dogs, 2 cats or something like that) who are in need of a home or for whatever reason you would like them featured as adoptable pets.

As far as the 5 boxes with the small pictures of the dogs and cats, I don't think dogs stands out enough to create the balance mentioned in the general feedback. Is there a way to have more of a dog balance here. Larry (a team member) loves the current cats. I don't know if there's a way to keep the contented cat and add a lively dog, but this is what we'd like to see for balance.

So I follow: You want the header image to the stay the same, but somehow put in a picture of a dog somewhere to balance it? Or you want the boxes to stand out more? I was confused about that, so clarification would be helpful. Thank You.

For the navigation bar on the right, to us this doesn't go as well with the picture on the right. And is maybe designed to fit the logo so we can get the logo on the page. We are very open to having the logo moved someplace else and doesn't need to be on the top - it could be in the lower right corner. We just need it somewhere on the page for identification. So for the navigation, is there a way to make it go with the picture portion of the header more? The links we'd like to see in the Navigation are: Home, Adopt, Volunteer, Donate, About Us, Contact, Login.

Yes, the navigation was set up to accomodate the logo. I will take a look around and see if I can find another method of layout.

I may or may not be able to re-enter the contest. If I get the time, I will give you the revisions, but I cannot guarantee having enough time.

All the best,
Sean


Note: I hate cats too. I am soooo allergic. You can see a doggie on my site.
Bags is so great. Click the photo gallery (http://www.placidminds.com/index.php)

[motiveX]

Here you go. This was all I could find the time for right now.

:blink:

[Radu]

Here's my entry. Comments welcomed.

-Ruairi

[IDarwish]

wwwzone .. :tup: VERY NICE.. I like it :)

[customb]

Hello, I hope I haven't forgot anything.

[azrescue]

Wow - things are looking great. (This is Larry with RESCUE posting in place of Jennifer who is otherwise buried at work. I guess you can consider me the second string - the Rodney Peete of RESCUE .. albeit poorer and slower)

George - thanks so much for making those changes to your design & so quickly! Your approach is very inviting. :tup: In particular we love how you delineated the links under Ways to get involved - very easy to see what they are and separated from each other so they don't blend. This is so important for us.
The photo at the top is definitely the balance we are looking for, but the concensus is this isn't the right feel for several reasons. First the expressions are a bit unfriendly and because both animals look like purebreds we are concerned people will think we only do purebred rescue, which we don't. So - wondering if you could find another photo. Other than that it looks great - colors, separation of key areas, blending of the logo.

Sean - Everyone really loves your "eye!" The cat photo says "content" and the new dog photo is really powerful but with a different sentiment. :tup: The changes you made with the nav, sub headers and wording looks great.
In terms of tweaks we would like to explore they are minor - some different images for the small thumbnail photos - we are going for a range of breeds and animals (especially mixed breeds) and some images that are all clearly distinguishable. The two close up eye focused photos freak some of us out :blink: and the cat that looks like it is outside runs counter to one of our guidelines. Wondering if you could find some others that would fit your concept. The white dog however is perfect.
The links under Ways to get involved seem to fade together a bit and we really want them to attract attention. Anything you could do here would be much appreciated.
Other than these two small issues we really love your design! :tup: We are hoping that the time crunch you mentioned will not preclude you from making some minor changes if indeed we ultimately select your design? Please let us know?


Ruairi - wow great look! We LOVE the colors (they are near and dear to us) and your work with the swooping rainbow design we originated. You kept enough of it but made it your own - really updated the look. We love the three "big buttons at the top (although we would like them to be Adopt, Donate, Volunteer).
The photo is terrific not only because of the look but also because this is an older dog and we very much focus on adult animals (which I'm guessing your research told you - thank you!). If it was just a good guess then that's good too! :lol2:
We really like the two different colored column headers as well. The logo really looks like it belongs! We also love the paw prtints to set of sections.
In terms of things we would like you to consider:
We would like the links under ways to get involved to be more prominent (we really do want to draw people here)
We like the words in the photo but want to emphasize RESCUE - Creating a new Standard. Take me home evokes pity (for us anyway) and we don't want people adopting for the wrong reasons (we want a decision of the head and the heart).

Is there any way to make the cat-dog balance less dog heavy and perhaps find a cat vs. a kitten?
Thank you for entering Ruairi - your design is excellent! :tup:

To the other designers - several of you indicated you were interested in submitting a design -huhhso, V+E+R+T. Please let us know if you are still interested as we want to make our final choice in the next three or four days and then get back to the winner with any last tweaks. We would love to have you participate! :D BTW-if time is an extreme issue for any of you we could stretch our decision a bit beyond the Feb 6 date if it is critical.

Thank you all SO MUCH for your creativity and talent! :notworthy:
Larry

[ant1832]

I'll have an entry soon

[azrescue]

Anthony, love to have you invloved! Especially as you are a Tucson boy - Jennifer and I both went to the UofA - I went to HS at Sahuaro (1981 :blink: - yes I'm elderly) I believe Jennifer would wnat me to emphasize she is much younger than I am. :ph34r:

Thanks much,
Larry

[ant1832]

lol...I went to Pueblo and Salpointe(graduated in 1996), getting ready to head back to U of A this summer to finally wrap up my degree.

[customb]

Designer searching for pictures with dogs and cats...

[Anne]

Expect an entry from me as well.

- Anne

[azrescue]

Anthony - good to have you on board! Good luck with your design and studies :rolleyes:

George - thank you for the photo search - I'm sure you will come up with something that will look great with your design!

Anne - from Norway! Cool - or should I say cold, this time of year?! :lol: It's sunny and 68 in Phoenix today (I couldn't begin to do the conversion given my spotty American education but I'm sure you get the point). I hope you are comfortable and feeling creatively inspired whatever the weather outside! Thank you for adding your talents to our endeavour! The bar has been set high with every entry from our perspective, so we are thrilled to have you involved.

Larry

P.S. Sean - meant to tell you how cute your Bassett is! What a dude. :) Good luck to your Pats.

[jonmulk]

<!--QuoteBegin-customb+Jan 30 2004, 02:20 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (customb @ Jan 30 2004, 02:20 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Designer searching for pictures with dogs and cats... [/b][/quote]
Try these:

http://www.sxc.hu/index.phtml

[Palmer]

Found a dog (http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=92667) :cowboy:

[Anne]

<!--QuoteBegin-azrescue+Jan 30 2004, 11:52 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (azrescue @ Jan 30 2004, 11:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Anne - from Norway! Cool - or should I say cold, this time of year?! :lol: It's sunny and 68 in Phoenix today (I couldn't begin to do the conversion given my spotty American education but I'm sure you get the point). I hope you are comfortable and feeling creatively inspired whatever the weather outside! Thank you for adding your talents to our endeavour! The bar has been set high with every entry from our perspective, so we are thrilled to have you involved. [/b][/quote]
Oh yeah it's cold and we have a lot of snow. I think it's been years since we had so mutch snow in Oslo. This is the perfect wather to make templates :D

Here is my entry

[Anne]

Sorry. Double post

[motiveX]

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Sean - Everyone really loves your "eye!"* The cat photo says "content" and the new dog photo is really powerful but with a different sentiment. :tup: The changes you made with the nav, sub headers and wording looks great.*
In terms of tweaks we would like to explore they are minor - some different images for the small thumbnail photos - we are going for a range of breeds and animals (especially mixed breeds) and some images that are all clearly distinguishable.* The two close up eye focused photos freak some of us out* :blink: and the cat that looks like it is outside runs counter to one of our guidelines.* Wondering if you could find some others that would fit your concept.* The white dog however is perfect.*
The links under Ways to get involved seem to fade together a bit and we really want them to attract attention.* Anything you could do here would be much appreciated.*
[/b][/quote]
Hi Larry-

I changed the images in the header which you mentioned, in addition I gave a different treatment to the links at the bottom of the site in the 'STEPS TO ADOPT' as well as where you focused on, 'WAYS TO GET INVOLVED.' Let me know if this helps them stand out a bit more or if you would like to see further changes.

I also removed the 'rectangles' from the 'whats new' and 'ways to get involved' since it was bothering me for some reason; seemed to throw off the balance. Let me know if you would prefer them as opposed to the current change.

And to answer your question; I would be more than willing to make minor tweaks here and there if you decided to go with my design. Anything for the animals...well, within reason of course.

;)

:tup:

Thanks
Sean


:)

[Radu]

:rolleyes:

[customb]

Thank you Palmer, I hope you will not deduct me if I won.

[Palmer]

lol @ George :lol2:

[azrescue]

Anne - The use of color is great. It's very clear you considered all of our previous feedback and we appreciate that. The bottom of the page with the links and dog face is exceptionally cute. Overall we feel the design is too segmented and while we like it, we don't love it. Thank you so much for your time and energy.

Sean - Love the new photos and the What's New/Get Involved Headers - like this change and agree it looks better. What you've given us is plenty for our final decision. If we go with your design, the only change we would likely make is to the Donate.Time.Love.Home saying. Thanks for a super entry as we love it. :notworthy:

wwwzone - Love the new pictures - they complete the design. Great choice on both cats. We also really like the new nav as it highlights our big three areas. We also think this design incorporates all of our intentions and we will use it for a final decision. Thanks for all your work- we really love your design. :notworthy:

customb - We said no "pure breds"! Maybe you can use this with Holstein Rescue :lol2:! George, obviously you'll let us know when you choose your final photography. Looking forward to it! :D Also for everyone, one of the things I thought of last night is that the brochure pictures (www.azrescue.org/brochure/)are available, but I also have a directory available of some of our own cats/dogs at www.azrescue.org/images/ - I don't know if they are high enough quality (don't know a lot about pictures in relation to graphic design), but you can take a look and use...

Palmer - Thank you Mr. Helper... ;)

[Palmer]

Palmer - Thank you Mr. Helper... ;)

I do what I can :D

[azrescue]

wwwzone - after some further discussions we are wondering if you would incorporate our two tag lines into your design.

They are - Creating a new standard & Where Family is Family

Where you put them is up to you. They are both important to us although the first one is our primary focus. We love the design but are missing these messages and need to see how you would fit them in please.

Thanks much,

Larry

[customb]

Can I add this into my design also?

[azrescue]

<!--QuoteBegin-customb+Feb 1 2004, 11:50 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (customb @ Feb 1 2004, 11:50 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Can I add this into my design also?[/b][/quote]
George - absolutely you can and we want you too! :D My bad ...
Following these threads and designs gets confusing - sorry.

Larry :oops:

[customb]

No problemo ;) I am working over your template, I should come up with something pretty soon.

George.

[customb]

Also...

I like the idea to have on each category different photo on the right... so let's say that we will put a dog and cat on the hope page, and then dogs or/and cats on the rest... I think this diversity will empower your website, and can be used on other templates, not only on mine.

how this sounds for you?

[customb]

new friends in the corner...

[customb]

and with the slogans

[azrescue]

:tup: George - thanks for the great addtions to your design as well as the thoughts about the "inside" pages - funny but we've been debating a similar thing. We still haven't decided yet but glad to have some confirmation it's worth considering.

Love the photo and the tag lines worked into the header! It's hard to give up the cow, but the dog and cat sleeping together seems more appropriate ... well perhaps it's not appropriate ... but more fitting. :lol:

Unless you come up with anymore insights I think we have enough to consider for our final selection! We are still on for a decision by the 6th.

Thanks very much,

Larry

[Radu]

Here's mine with the two tag lines added to the design.
Comments welcomed.

-Ruairi

[azrescue]

:tup: Ruairi - looks great! Thanks for the adds. I think we have everything we need at this point to compare and contrast amongst the handful of designs we have and make our final choices.

Much appreciated,

Larry

[ant1832]

sorry I didn't post an entry azrescue...this weekend didn't go exactly as planned and I didn't have time to give this the effort it deserves.

Looks like you got a nice selection to chose from anyway...good luck!

[azrescue]

Hello Everyone,

Well after a week of heated debate, we've chosen a winner - wwwzone.

We really liked 4 out of the 5 entries.

jonmulk - a professional look

customb - a light, airy and energetic look

motivex - a very artistic look that would take as to another level

Ultimately, we chose wwwzone because of it's integration of the logo and the ease of navigation and the page is inviting.

Please let me know the next steps from here. We do have 1 change for wwwzone in regards to the taglines, but it is small.

Let me know what to do next,
Jennifer

[jonmulk]

Well done wwwzone!

[Palmer]

Jennifer I'll move this to the revisions forum. Contact Ruairi and let him know where to find it after I contact you.

Thanks :)

[azrescue]

Hello Ruairi,

Congratulations on such a great design!

The main revision that I need has to do with the tag lines.

I'd like to swap the places of the new tag lines. Move "Creating a new standard"
to the "where family is family" spot. And the "Where family is family" to the "creating a new standard spot".

Remove the ! from the standard tagline. Also I'm not sure just swapping them will look right with the font size and color so please change this as you see fit.

My question has to do with the template. For the pages below the home page I would like to use the "frame" of the home page. I will use the space of the "Why RESCUE" and "Who is RESCUE" sections as the white space for text.

The one thing I am wondering is that is this area isn't enough white space, I could possibly remove the picture of the dog and cat and use this area as white space as well. But then I'm not sure what to do with Home | About Us | Contact Us | Login navigation bar. Do you have an idea of what I could do the this nav bar on a template page that doesn't include the dog and cat picture?

Thanks for your help and our team is so excited about the new look of the website! It's a great change.

Jennifer

[Radu]

Jennifer,

first I want to thank you for choosing my design :) It was a very nice contest... great choice :)

I will try and make all suggested changes plus I will design a subpage based on your directions. Expect a new post tomorrow with the revisions.

Thank you.
-Ruairi

[azrescue]

Thanks Ruairi. Can't wait to see the revisions. :D

Jennifer

[Radu]

Hi Jennifer. here is the design with the revisions made. let me know what you think.

-Ruairi

[Radu]

and the subpage design as I promised :)

-Ruairi

[azrescue]

Hello Ruairi,

The subpage template looks awesome!

I also like the homepage, but need one more change and then we are set. Can you add back in RESCUE about the tagline "where family is family". We wanted to keep this - sorry that I wasn't clear about that in the last message.

Larry also wants to know if you can make it a tad bigger, not a lot, but a little.

After that, I believe we are set!!!

Thanks,
Jennifer

[Radu]

Jennifer,
I apologize for the delayed reply.

Here is the modified homepage. Let me know what you think.

Thank you.
-Ruairi

[azrescue]

Hello Ruairi,

The home page looks great and no more revisions are necessary!! :D

How will the home page be sent now? I'm not sure of the next steps. I've read that some people want a PSD file?? But I'm not sure what a PSD file is. :-) I'd like to put the home page into an HTML file.

I'm guess that the page is put into an HTML file using tables to differentiate the sections and then using pictures for the graphics???

Any explanation would be great! And of course recommendations on how to proceed from here...

Thanks again for all your help,
Jennifer

[Radu]

The PSD stands for a source file generated by Adobe Photoshop or compatible graphic programs like Macromedia Fireworks. The sorce files contains all the graphic elements that form your template and can be used for later modifications. It is very useful to have it when you want to easily modify the look of your pages. Of course along with the HTML files (CSS & image files also) I will send you the source files too. :)

-Ruairi

[azrescue]

Great. Thanks for the clarification.

Can you give me an estimated date for when we will get the files? I need to line up some volunteers to do the implementation and want to try to set a timeline with them.

Thanks!
Jennifer

[Radu]

Well, in fact I have already uploaded all the files to our server. I'll send you a PM in a second.

Thank you.
-Ruairi

[azrescue]

Hello,

Just wanted to posted that I have gotten the files from wwwzone and we have started to work with them. I think we are set.

Sorry for the delay in responding. I am buying and selling a house, so it's a bit chaotic for me right now.

Thanks!
Jennifer

[customb]

bigger house, more cats and dogs I guess? :tup: