[Project Complete] $300 main page and sub page(s) for gift and favor company

[lilthorner]

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Company Details

1a) Name of Company highly favor-ed

1b)Company Tag Line or slogan: ...making your party dreams soar

1c) Do you have a company logo? yes will be attached


What is the nature of your business?: Briefly describe your products or services:gifts, favors, invitations, personalized items and desktop publishing (biz cards, church programs)

1f) Who is your target market? Who are you hoping to reach with your site? anyone planning an event, or looking for a special gift to commemorate an event




Website Details

1b) Do you have an existing website? If so, what is the URL?www.highlyfavor-ed.com (template)

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.gentlewhispers.com, customconfectionsandmore.com, quite a few of the fun templates I have seen in this forum

3b) What colors or color schemes would you like?
pinks and blues to match the logo, variants of the colors can be used and is encouraged

4b) List the Navigation links for your Site:

traditional favors, gifts, invitations, personalized items, desktop publishing ( could be called design), contact, FAQ, links, policies, order, pricing, about us, testimonials, guestbook. 9not necessarily in that order)




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

6b) Please provide the addresses of competitors' sites, if possible:
customfavors.com (really only because it is local)

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:

the only images would be products that I offer, I don't have any images that would be for a header or anything, so I am open to that


Deadlines and Deliverables

1c) What is the deadline for the design of your project?June 25, 2005

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

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

I need to be able to update my site on my own, which I am pretty sure I can do. I need to be able to add links and photos. If boxes are used for photos and such, I need to be able to manipulate them. I basically need a home page, a sub page for the products (ie. wrappers, by type)( I may be able to create this from the main page design) I also would like for the images to be thumbnails and popup or open a new page when clicked on (for products)

[lilthorner]

hellooooooooo...... is anybody there? or am I just impatient?

[Severner]

hello there,

i will probably look in to it.. in 12 hours? :)
meaning tomorrow.

i have an idea so meanwhile could you please tell me if you were okay with some things (it would save time for both of us if I wouldnt have to remake the design for some simple reason:)- so i though it would be a good idea for the first time to ask these things Before doing anything..):
1) light background
2) site in the middle(center)
3) kinda minimalistic (fragile/light lines etc) not bold and ..well quite frankly not macho :D
4) colors: light/light-pink/dark-violet
5) probably no photos in the design.. well maybe one in the header.. but i doubt it would look good. :)

and if You have some more ideas about what you are looking for then shoot - it's your money and your design, so it's your call too. maybe you have thought of some possibility already..

[lilthorner]

1) light background FINE
2) site in the middle(center) Im not sure what you mean? Is this how it is now?
3) kinda minimalistic (fragile/light lines etc) not bold and ..well quite frankly not macho :D (not too bold, and yes NOT macho)
4) colors: light/light-pink/dark-violet Pinks and blues.. If violet will set it off then I'm fine with that too

5) probably no photos in the design.. well maybe one in the header.. but i doubt it would look good. :) I dont think any photos are needed in the design, but Im not a designer :D

another site (probably template) that I like is www.cfcdesigns.com

[dziner]

Please count me in =)
I should have an entry by Wed afternoon.

Shelly

[dziner]

Hi, I am sorry I didn't get it in on Wed as I said I would. Below is the link to my entry. I will be happy to make any revisions you would like to see.

Home Page (http://www.yencreative.com/favored/web1.htm)

Thanks!
Shelly

[lilthorner]

I think this looks absolutely great!!!! I'm thinking about if I want the wrapper catagories to be on the main page



Any other entries?

[lilthorner]

Shelly, can I see something with boxes similar to what you have on your site in the portfolio?

[dziner]

I would be happy to show you something using the boxes. Just to be clear, do you mean the boxes in the web site portfolio? and I am not really sure if you mean for me to use them in the area on the right w/ the ad type boxes? or somewhere else?
Just let me know.
Shelly

[lilthorner]

yes, the boxes in the web portfolio.. I would actually be using them for the sub (or inner) pages, not the ad boxes.

[dziner]

I am not sure if I have nailed down what you want to see, so just let me know if I am off or there is something else you would like to see. The link is below.

Inside page (http://www.yencreative.com/favored/web1b.htm)

Thanks!
Shelly

[lilthorner]

ooooh, yes like that. I will probably need to resize the box for when it is multiple catagories, but that looks great..


I guess no one else is going to enter my contest huh?

[dziner]

I don't see why they wouldn't =) I love working on designs like this one. I think a lot of contests went up at the same time and the design team got spread thin.

[lilthorner]

I don't see why they wouldn't =) I love working on designs like this one. I think a lot of contests went up at the same time and the design team got spread thin.

I love the desings that I have seen you do on the forums here. I definately like this design, but as this will be my 3rd time redoing the site (of course the first two were templates) I would like to sleep on it for a few.

I think I need to extend the deadline, but I'm not sure that will make a difference.

Does anyone else have any other designs?????

[Anne]

Here's a minimalistic design from me

Anne

[lilthorner]

Thank you Anne,

I like that design, especially the top, but Shelly's make me feel more happy.. I want to stay there and i want to keep going back to look at it.

Shelly, where did the design go???!!!! :eek:

I would like to go with Shelly for this template.

[dziner]

Is the link not working? It is for me now, if you still have a problem let me know and I check into it.
Shelly

[dziner]

I have a question about your site and the navigation. I realized tonight that you have a lot more items than I saw the first time around and when I found the wedding section it made me realize that you might want to offer visitors the option of shopping by category or shopping by event? I don't know if I were a visitor to your site that I would realize that you do have wine bottle labels with a wedding theme. I will rework the navigation if you want me to... I just thought you have so many adorable items and visitors need to know! =)

example for weddings (http://www.yencreative.com/favored/web1c.htm)

Shelly

[lilthorner]

i didn't get the notification that there were any replies. Sorry!

In the baby and wedding catagory for wrappings, there are matched designs for different items. Those came in a kit like that. Anything else, is custom and I can make a design to match what I would normally do. The majority of what I do is custom, so its hard for me to say, oh I will have 4 baby pages of wrappers.

I do think, I would like to call them "wrappings" anything that I put a label on is being wrapped, so I think that is cute.

The navigation right now, is definately not the best, which is why I want to have it right and be done with it.. I spend so much time worried about my site, that I don't really update it because I am always thinking of a way to change it.

Do you have any ideas how you would re-work the navigation?

[dziner]

Ok, below are links to a possible navigation structure. I really didn't change much, just made it shop by item or shop by category and pulled that concept into the item pages themselves. You may want to re-word or rearrange the things... or maybe have another idea you would like to see, in which case just let me know. Thank you!!

home page (http://www.yencreative.com/favored/web1.htm)

Shop by Item > Candy Wrappers (http://www.yencreative.com/favored/wrappers.htm)

Shop by Cateogory > Weddings (http://www.yencreative.com/favored/weddings.htm)

Shop by Category > Weddings > Bubbles (http://www.yencreative.com/favored/wed_bubbles.htm)

Shelly

[lilthorner]

Shelly, those look great!! I like the by occasion and by item thing.. Will I be able to add buttons/links if I get more products? One thing, can we change candy wrappers to "wrappings"? and for the top part of the boxes, can we have a little texture on the header?

[dziner]

Below are links to the html versions of your pages. Let me know if you see anything that needs to be changed.
Thanks!

Home Page (http://www.yencreative.com/favored/fav_final/home.htm)

Gifts (interior) (http://www.yencreative.com/favored/fav_final/gifts.htm)

Wedding Category (http://www.yencreative.com/favored/fav_final/weddings.htm)

Wedding > Bubbles (http://www.yencreative.com/favored/fav_final/wed_bubbles.htm)

Wrappings Items (http://www.yencreative.com/favored/fav_final/wrappings.htm)

[lilthorner]

ooooh Shelly, those look great! there is a lil something going on with the special occasion link ( like it's not aligned correctly or something?), but this looks absolutely great.

[dziner]

I think I have everything ready to send. The zip will include the following html pages: home, about, gifts, wrappings, weddings, wedding bubbles. I also made you graphic headers for all of the pages. (ie: about us, contact us etc..) As well as the headers for gifts, invitations etc... One question, I know you said you use Dreamweaver, do you also use Fireworks to edit any graphics? Because I can send the .png files or the .psd files.. whichever will be best for you.
Shelly

[lilthorner]

I think I have everything ready to send. The zip will include the following html pages: home, about, gifts, wrappings, weddings, wedding bubbles. I also made you graphic headers for all of the pages. (ie: about us, contact us etc..) As well as the headers for gifts, invitations etc... One question, I know you said you use Dreamweaver, do you also use Fireworks to edit any graphics? Because I can send the .png files or the .psd files.. whichever will be best for you.
Shelly

I don't use dreamweaver (never tried) but I do use photoshop and psp and corel draw for editing graphics.. I'm so excited... THANK YOU VERY MUCH :eek:

[dziner]

For some reason I thought you used dreamweaver.. sorry. Ok, below is the link for the zip file. It has the html, css and image files. I did include both png and psd for the images. Let me know if you need anything else.
Thank you!
Shelly
favored final zip (http://www.yencreative.com/favored/fav_final.zip)

[lilthorner]

I got them... and access to Dreamweaver!! now a tutor LOL Thanks again

[dziner]

Just email me if you run into any problems and I will be glad to help. Email address is shelly@thedotfactor.com. =)