Trendy InvitationBuzz.com – fresh, classy & organized

Invitation Buzz

Invitation Buzz is an online marketplace that will bring exposure to designers, retailers, publishers and all those related to the greeting card and stationery industry. Our website will offer a business directory along with highlighting the latest trends, from eco-friendly paper to the most stylish baby announcements. We will also appeal to the professional design community by offering an online submission system for contest holders to launch their own design contests to keep their collections fresh.

Invitation Buzz is run by women in their early 30’s, very trend forward business women looking for that perfect landing page for their website to represent Invitation Buzz.

Consumers to our site: Invitation buyers of all ages. People looking for trends in the paper world, searching for newest products such as ribbons, stamps, embellishments on cards, newest celebrity invitation buys, etc.

Members on our site: Greeting cards & stationery industry designers, publishers & retailers. Basically anyone that is in the business to sell any type of stationery products.

Contest Section: People/companies that will launch contests to add to their design collections to sell, as well as designers who will compete for prizes and submit to the contests being held.

Fresh, classy, well organized, not busy, clean & enticing

Color schemes are open, we want it to definitely flow with our logo which is provided in the media files.

Initial mockup of our website and logo can be downloaded at:
http://foliageweb.com/web-contest/i…onbuzz.zip

We DO NOT like this mockup at all, but it gives you an idea of the elements needed.

Elements/pieces on home page:
Search Box
Slide show box that we manually change who or what we want to feature
Feature 2 Recent Members
Current Contests (list top three most recent contests with view all tab)
Buzzworthy (this is our most recent blog posts)
Member Buzz (post that is about a member that has made it in the news)
Newsletter Signup box

Smaller Quick Nav that will be visible on every page & has:
Directory
Contests
Blog
Get Listed
About Us
Advertising
FAQ’s

Main Nav with categories for consumers to search for members that offer these products. Here are our main categories, subnavs will spawn out:
Wedding
Baby & Kids
Holiday
Invitations & Announcements
Eco-Friendly
Business
Personal
Gifts & More

We love lots of websites, but none that we have seen that seem to be similar to what we are looking for. We want to encourage contests & memberships to our site.

Deliverable format: layered png would be preferred.

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