Spin Studio needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 45 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
Multi-page website template created in Adobe Photoshop. Template to be offered for sale to customers of Media Lab's SiteGrinder. As a sidenote, we're looking for a wide variety of website templates, so in addition to the winning entry of this contest, we may contact other designers who have submitted templates that we'd also like to buy.
Media Lab SiteGrinder (http://www.medialab.com)
Project Overview: We are looking for elegant, clean, beautifully designed website templates in Photoshop format for use with Media Lab's SiteGrinder product.
About SiteGrinder: Forget about the difficulties of building a professional quality website; Media Lab’s SiteGrinder plug-in converts Adobe Photoshop into a powerful, intuitive website development system that makes it easy. SiteGrinder and Photoshop are everything a designer or engineer needs to create gorgeous websites that look exactly like their Photoshop designs. With the click of a button, SiteGrinder effortlessly transforms Photoshop files into professional quality, 100% standards-compliant, CSS-rich webpages. SiteGrinder gives the user complete control over every aspect of their website’s design and functionality, including automated photo galleries, Flash slideshows, CSS-driven menus, and much more ... all without leaving Photoshop. SiteGrinder 2 writes the HTML, CSS and other web programming code so the user doesn''t have to. For the first time, the designer is free to focus exclusively on just that: the design. SiteGrinder takes care of everything else.
About Media Lab: For over a decade, Longmont, CO-based Media Lab, Inc. has specialized in creating tools that bring Photoshop designs to life as compelling webpages and Macromedia Director & Flash movies. Media Lab's award-winning webpage generation tool, SiteGrinder, has enjoyed an array of favorable reviews and accolades since its April 2000 debut under the then name of PhotoWebber. Moreover, the company's innovative multimedia design tools, PhotoCaster, PSD2FLA, and AlphaMania, were used to create pioneering special effects seen at Disney World’s EPCOT Center in Florida, as well as in numerous popular music videos and motion pictures, such as "X-Men 2", "Spiderman 2", "Air Force One", and "Armageddon".
- Generic design and layout that can be used across a wide range of subjects, for both personal and business.
- Design should provide a modern, fresh Web 2.0 look and feel.
- Final files required in PSD format using layers for each individual element.
- Content area of design should be no wider than 1,000 pixels, but no less than 900 pixels.
- All 'lorem ipsum' text must be provided in a web standard font, such as Verdana, Arial, Courier, Times, etc., with no effects applied, including anti-aliasing.
- The only exception to the above is for a font treatment you'd like treated as a graphic (i.e., section header, page header); for such, feel free to use any font you'd like, as well as effects and anti-aliasing.
- Pages required include homepage, information page, gallery page, contact us page.
- Each of the required pages must be prepared as a layer comp within the final PSD file.
- Some of the design aesthetics for which we are aiming are as follows. Use these design easthetics for inspiration as needed:
http://tonyyoo.com/v3/
http://tonyyoo.com/v3/work.html
http://www.letterllama.com/
http://www.templatemonster.com/webs…23144.html
http://www.womantowomangyn.com/
http://www.apple.com/imac/
http://www.bradcolbow.com/illustration.html
http://www.mediasoldier.net/
- Final files will be used as templates offered for sale to customers of Media Lab's SiteGrinder product.
- Only use stock photography or graphical elements that can be transferred from one user to another without any copyright infringements.
- Nothing offensive (i.e., sexual, religious, political, etc.)
- No offensive language
- Nothing overly "cookie cutter" ... we're looking for really beautiful, elegantly styled original designs that people would be proud to use.