Graphic Design Contests

**00Bolt** · 07-13-2005, 10:43 PM

I am wanting someone to make me 2 pages. One will be a complete working homepage, and the other will be a secondary page which displays my items for sale. I will then use that 'page2' as my template to create the rest of my website...

I own a trophy/award store and sell trophies, plaques, crystal awards, blah blah and need an online store. It is not mandantory that it have an online shopping cart, althought that might be kinda cool if someone can teach me a little about it...

what i would like:

Homepage ---

homepage to be very crisp, clean, simple yet professional and up to date looking. Id like something like a menu with drop down menu or some kind of way to easily navigate throughout the site. homepage should prolly have some sort of banner (doesnt need to be flash) with my logo in it... im really up in air on exactly, that why Im here looking for ideas... but maybe have a small section showing hottest items or newest items or something like that....

Secondary Page ---

this page will be my 'template' to use for myself to finish my site. this page I would like to be a little different than the homepage.. If we are going with a drop down menu style or tabs or something, it needs to be there also for easy navigation throughout the entire site... but this page is for when someone clicks on "TROPHIES".. this page will display my various different types of trophies... say in the drop down, one of the tabs says Trophies, then there are a bunch of links that drop down, and one says Bobblehead Trophies and someone clicks that... i would like THIS page to display the different bobblehead trophies with their prices, etc and so on for all kinds of trophies, plaques, etc... and once 1 is done, i can use that template for the rest of all my trophies, etc

it doesnt have to be anything real super duper fancy, but as stated, I would like something simple to navigate, and pretty clean and crisp looking... i dont like clutter and hard to see type with stuff and links all over... but not really so simple it looks like a 3rd grader (or me) designed...

i created a website on my own using a simple drag and drop program homestead gave me, and did what i consider crappy work... but.. you can search my site and get an idea of a few things i will be doing. As you will find out, i never finished my site, the plaques, crystals, etc pages are not even done.... but you can browse and at least get the idea of what im looking for...

Price... i dont really have a set price im looking to spend, obviously the better the design, the more it is going to cost. I personally dont care if you start with a blank white page and create on your own or use some template off the web, I just want something thats going to work for me and I like... when you submit your design, give me your price... but i will be straight forward and say this... if you plan to spend like 40 hours on this project and ask for $400 or something, im not going to go with you... it may be awesome, but i dont plan to spend that kind of money.... in all honesty, id like to spend $100 or less if possible.... if that amount is out of the question, let me know

here is my current site you can browse for ideas

www.awardsandbeyond.com

**00Bolt** · 07-13-2005, 10:52 PM

here are 2 of the biggest trophy companies on the web... as you can tell their prices are better than mine, but im a small 1 man business trying to pay rent, phone book ads, etc etc and cant afford to give my stuff away....

anyway, like i was saying... these are 2 of the biggest places on the web, and you can look at their sites and see if it gives you any ideas..

http://store.dinntrophy.com/store/general/index_html

http://www.crownawards.com

**marcom10** · 08:09 AM

Have some questions...

**00Bolt** · 07-14-2005, 11:05 AM

btw, if you are doing from scratch, it needs to be coded

**00Bolt** · 07-14-2005, 11:31 AM

well guys, i found a template that I kind of like, but didnt want to just fork over the money and buy yet... wanted to see what you guys thought... maybe one of you might even have this or have something similar or can even create it pretty easy...

http://www.templatemonster.com/websi...pl=5767&tab=32

there are 3 pages included... the homepage, the content page and the products page.

Here is what i was thinking...

Homepage-
have my various categories of trophies, plaques, etc on the left... then in the center have some specials or hot items and on the right have request a catalog just like them, pretty much copy their homepage, but i dont want the shopping cart at the top

content page-
keep the menu bar there on the left, and say you are on the "Trophy" page, have a picture on some various trophy with its discription at the top, then list out all the different kinds of trophies like bobbleheads, blah blah underneath.... and i dont really want the search thing on the right, but maybe put various hot sellers or something over on the right

product page-
here is where when someone clicks on 'bobblehead trophies' it shows a zoomed in picture of that particular kind of item and discription, price, etc but not sure what I would do with the sections on the right

does all this make sense? $57 seems like a really good price... curious if anyone can make something like this or possible already owns this template or something real similar?

**brokensoul2271** · 07-14-2005, 02:41 PM

Sounds good to me. Why dont you just buy it and edit it to your needs? Or ask someone here to edit it?

**00Bolt** · 07-14-2005, 02:51 PM

i just bought it and have all the files, how much is going rate to have someone edit the 3 pages to my liking??? basically just have to change text, images, links, etc

**Jake** · 07-14-2005, 03:56 PM

It cost you 57$, so to edit, I would do some simple image editing and text editing for 20$.

**brokensoul2271** · 07-15-2005, 05:51 AM

^sounds fair^ or you could read a book and do it yourself for free... Easier to get Jake to do it though, I guess..

I'd offer but too many things going on right now...