Crucial needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 39 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
We are after a web 2.0 website for a new hosting company. The design MUST be original and cannot feel, look or resemble a template.
The Hosting Hero
We are after a web 2.0 website for a new hosting company.The design MUST be original and cannot feel, look or resemble a template,we cannot stress this enough. The color scheme should be in line with our logo (designed through 99 design, please check our other contests for The Hosting Hero). The site should be fun, outgoing , should jump out and be something that people will remember.
- We would like a clean uncluttered site.
- We need the homepage and one (1) Additional page designed.
- The Additional page must either have another menu and/or additional internal advertising space on either side.
- There needs to be 6 tabs/links to other pages all need to beeditable.
- The site must use our color scheme associated with the new logo
- The site must have a large advertising section on the home page
- Additional navigation is also required, whether you use adrop menu or additional navigation in the sub pages it’s up to you, we willdecide what we prefer during the design process, an example of sub navigation isbelow.
o Network & Infrastructure
§ Data Center
§ Network Diagram
§ Server Grade Hardware
Sites that we like:
http://www.singlehop.com
· We like the bar at the top of the page that includesthe logo and contact details
· We like the menu and the functionality
· We like the large advertisement with the coloredbackground
· We like the use of colors
http://www.wowvps.com
· Like with singlehop the top bar with the logolooks great and we would like this integrated in to this site.
· Again the color scheme fits with their logo,please note this when designing the site.
· We like the navigation on each sub page howeverwould prefer it on the right hand side of the website
· On the home page we like the four (4) boxes onthe bottom of the page, these work well with the design.
· We like the simple site navigation
http://www.geekstorage.com
· We like the use of gradients on the site
· We like how they have displayed the navigationon the right hand of each sub page
· We like the overlay on the feature overview whenbrowsing their web hosting products
I think a combination of the three sites listed above fits to what we want in the design, if you have any questions please let us know!
*NOTE* We need the final product supplied to us in HTML format.
- templates sites
- sites that resemble templates
- boring sites that look like every other host out there!