JAB Web Hosting: New Website - $300 - 1st Feb 2010

[illumina]

Forum Username: andyjab

Company Details: Started now six years ago, JAB Web Solutions Limited provided a number of difference services based around web sites and the Internet. However, as we grew and developed, we have moved now almost entirely into web site hosting.

Through 2010, we are hoping to rebrand to jabwebhosting.com to reflect this change as we believe both the company logo and website are now starting to look tired, with parts of our website containing some outdated information.

Type Of Contest: Website Design

Contest Title: JAB Web Hosting: New Website

Contest Deadline: 1st February 2010

Prize Amount: 300

Colors To Be Used: See Logo

Example URLs: Logo can be found at:
http://www.jabwebsolutions.co.uk/images/Logo.png

Please describe your project in detail:

Design:
We are looking for a design that is around 960 pixels wide (in fitting with the
current standard for 1024 wide screens) in either Illustrator, Photoshop, JPEG or GIMP format. HTML coding will be done in-house as part of the development of the site into different software applications (including CMS and Billing applications). However should you wish to submit your idea as a HTML project that is acceptable.
We are also open to the idea of having a different front page layout to the main site, although this is not a requirement.

If you have any questions please let us know.

Legal:
JAB Web Hosting, jabwebhosting.com, working to help your site grow, and the tree are trademarks of JAB Web Solutions Limited. Licence to use the tree and/or any other part of our design is only available to JAB Web Solutions Limited and cannot be distributed or used together or separate in any other form.

We, the company, will reserve all rights with the selected design at the end of this content, and will be happy to allow the winner to include his/her design as part of their portfolio of work, howsoever displayed.

[tsmith]

edit: to be continued...

[andyjab]

Thank you for your submission and the quality of the work, however, we feel that
there are 2 reasons why this design is unsuitable for us:

- The 'nature' elements of our brand have been put to use here, and extended
upon, in a way where the elements have become too dissimilar. This results in
the logo not truly connecting with the overall theme, in style or colour.

- A number of elements within the design are too cartoon-like, an image that
does not reflect us, as an established and successful company

We do like the fact that the design wasn't typical of other hosting sites, for
example, focusing on dark or contrasting colours to emphasize figures and
features.

We also like the flow of the sections of the site and the overall layout of the
main elements, combined with the fun and bright feel. I have also added some bullet points on a few further things:

- The blue from the logo doesn't really come through on any section of the website mock up.

- We like the fact the box at the bottom drifts off the end of the page i.e. has no set black line to finish the box.

- Would have preferred boxes without plants growing off.

- We like the use of white as a background to define the information spaces.

- I also like the fact that doesn't look like it is crammed.


Thank you again and we look forward to further submissions, from yourself and
others!

[tsmith]

Hehe. I will have something more in-line with the hosting business image submitted in the next few days.

[andyjab]

Thats great news - looking forward to it!

[Bernadette]

Hello dear,
I'd like to join with my first entry
here it is

thanks
Bernadette

[andyjab]

Hi Bernadette,

We do like this design, the colours are a bit more in line with our
logo, however we would like something that catches your eye a little bit
more and is a bit more memorable.

We liked the uniqueness and fun aspect of the first design which had
lots of bright colours but we felt leaned too heavily on a very cartoony
feel. One of the main aspects that we really liked was that the text was
not boxed in, in that the text areas were sepeare. I do like the
prominence of our logo on your design, it does stand out.


We are really looking forward to further entries

[jjyepez]

Hi, posting my first try.
I hope you like it.
Click here to see an actual-sized version.

Best regards,
--
jjyepez

[tsmith]

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[Bernadette]

Hi Bernadette,

We do like this design, the colours are a bit more in line with our
logo, however we would like something that catches your eye a little bit
more and is a bit more memorable.

We liked the uniqueness and fun aspect of the first design which had
lots of bright colours but we felt leaned too heavily on a very cartoony
feel. One of the main aspects that we really liked was that the text was
not boxed in, in that the text areas were sepeare. I do like the
prominence of our logo on your design, it does stand out.


We are really looking forward to further entries

Hello Andy
Thanks for the feedback, I made a revision here
tell me what do you think about it

Bernadette

[andyjab]

We really like the design submitted by jjyepez as its more in line with what we are hoping to achieve. It maintains the use of colour and the fun aspect. In regards to the design it is a bit busy (there is a lot of information on the screen) and a lot of elements.

We feel the important factors in this design and the reason we like it are the bright colours and the fun aspect (while maintaining an adulty age range). It is not so important that we have all four packages on display at once, as we can rotate through them using flash/ajax etc.

We are happy to use some space for larger pictures if it fits in with the theme.

One criticism of this design is the grey box at the bottom just finishes? Could it be curved? or possibly adjusted in some way.

We would also want the cogs that are over the top of the support tab put behind and remove the advertisement banner(we would prefer white space). Also we really like the email hosting, home hosting headers just not to keen on the rather plain icons that go with each.

[jjyepez]

Hello Andy,
Thanks for your words. I'm really glad you like my design.
I'll post a revision soon.
Best regards,
--
jjyepez

[jjyepez]

Hello Andy,
Here my revision as you requested ...

I look forward to having caught your ideas well.
I'm not english-spoken person so I'm just trying to do my best in understanding the whole feedback.

Hope you like it.
Kind regards,
--
jjyepez

[andyjab]

Hi jjyepez,

Today is the last day of our competition and I was wondering if it would be possible for you to do a mockup of what you think an inner page would look like. We are very keen on the above design at the moment but we are not 100% sure what you think one of our inner pages would like.

Also could you remove the sun rays behind the logo (the grey sort of lines) so we can see it without.

[jjyepez]

Hello Andy,
Sure!
I'll post a revision of the current design and a proposal for inner pages in the next hours.
Best regards,
--
jjyepez

[andyjab]

Thanks, that would be super.

It will give us an idea of what the internal pages should look like as we aren't a 100% sure what the internal headers and fonts that you have imagined on the design would be. So it would be excellent if we could see this.

Sorry to be so late replying we have been discussing it internally yesterday in terms of all the designs given, if you could do these modifications/amendments it would be super!

Hello Andy,
Sure!
I'll post a revision of the current design and a proposal for inner pages in the next hours.
Best regards,
--
jjyepez

[jjyepez]

Hello Andy,
Here you have what you requested.

Home Page


Inner Pages


Please tell me your thoughts.
--
jjyepez

[jjyepez]

Please could somebody give information about this contest?
Thanks in advance.
--
jjyepez

[andyjab]

Hi,

We are very happy to go with jjyepez design.

Is it possible to get the file with the grey stripes on the back and without?

We are a bit split as to which one we prefer and that is why we haven't come back yet.

[andyjab]

Hi jjyepez,

Were you happy to give us the image with and without the sunray stripes behind the logo? Also an indication of the fonts etc. We are very keen to get started on working on this.

I will speak to the administrator now to see how we go about wrapping up the contest.

Thank you very much for everybody who put in a design, they all have been really good.