Please read full requirements in the "Detailed Requirements" section; below.
## Deliverables
Greetings to all.
We urgently need our website designed - to be delivered in less than 7days.
Your responsibility will be to design the website in PSD and then create XHTML + CSS out of it.
We are roughly looking at bids between $100-$150 but don't mind paying more for really good quality work and quick turn around.
We also do a lot of things but primarily we are recognized as a software consulting, development and solutions providing company.
Being Microsoft Partners, we want the website to follow the Microsoft look and feel - fonts, colors, layout, etc. However, it should also match our own corporate colors (colors from our logo) - orange, green, yellow and grey.
We cater to clients all over the world and hence want the website to have a soothing, appealing look and feel with more of white or some pastel color, a balance between text and images. The size, font and color of various text on a page should also be in balance with each other. The pages should be fast loading and follow a fluid, table-less layout. Please use only royalty free images. "Strictly NO copyrighted stuff."
Following is the site map as we visualize it...
- Home
- About Us
----- The Company
----- The Team
----- Technical Expertise
----- Our Methodology
- Products
----- Product A
----- Product B
----- Product C
----- Product D
- Services
----- Service A
----- Service B
---------- Service B1
--------------- Service B1a
--------------- Service B1b
---------- Service B2
--------------- Service B2a
--------------- Service B2b
---------- Service B3
--------------- Service B3a
--------------- Service B3b
--------------- Service B3c
--------------- Service B3d
----- Service C
----- Service D
----- Service E
----- Service F
- Contact Us
For all the pages, you will provide us with sample text (text place holder) and sample images. We will put the text and images at our end. However, we will want you to provide us with or recommend a royalty FREE, license FREE icon set that goes well with the website, colors and layout.
There should be a client testimonial picked randomly from a list of testimonials and shown on the left of right panel of every page (ideally the right panel).
There should be a marquee / scrolling list of logos of our clients at the bottom of the page. Ideally this should not be more than 100px in height. The logos can be in color of grey scale (whatever looks good with rest of the page).
There should be provision for integration with news / blog post.
There should be provision for integration with LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube.
Here are some of the websites you may want to go through...
(you will have to remove the # symbols)
http://www.dre#amin#[login to view URL]
http://www.dre#amin#[login to view URL]
http://www.pu#[login to view URL]
http://www.as#uresof#[login to view URL]
http://www.as#uresof#[login to view URL]
http://www.v#2so#[login to view URL]
http://www.te#amv#[login to view URL]
http://hell#oexp#[login to view URL]
https://po#ste#[login to view URL]
http://ry#[login to view URL]
http://www.e#xpe#rtgs.com/Software+Solutions/Software+Development/[login to view URL]
http://www.ti#ckerpla#[login to view URL]
http://www.ti#ckerpla#[login to view URL]
http://8r#ayst#[login to view URL]
http://8r#ayst#[login to view URL]
http://www.st#ylusi#[login to view URL]
http://www.cus#tomerc#[login to view URL]
http://pu#repr#[login to view URL]
http://www.cn#erg#[login to view URL]
http://www.a#tid#[login to view URL]
Note the few things that may be common to all the above websites...
#1 They follow their corporate colors scheme.
#2 Most of them have 3 or 2 column layout on their inner pages (if not on the main page).
#3 Most of them have the layout of their main page much different from that of their inner pages.
#4 There are 2 levels of menus - a main menu and a sub menu. The sub menu however, may be vertical in some and horizontal in some.
#5 Use of sober colors.
#6 Intelligent use of icons (on most of them).
#7 We do not need any animation on the site other than the main page. One the main page there will be 3-5 images shown one after the other in Flash (swf) object of anywhere between 150px - 250px. This will be replaced by a static image on all inner pages.
What we want from you is...
A layered and sliced PSD and the XHTML + CSS created out of it.
We request that along with your bid, rather than sending us the work you did for others, please send us a low resolution or water marked design of how you visualize our website. This will cut short the bidding time and will help us choose the winning bidder faster.
You may pick our logo from...
http://www.ca#rrotco#[login to view URL]
(you will have to remove the # symbols)
Please feel free to contact us in case you have any questions.
All the best and may the best designer / team win.
Regards,
-carrot
* * *This broadcast message was sent to all bidders on Wednesday Jun 15, 2011 1:55:10 PM:
Dear Designers,
In the past we have received very good design samples for our bid request, but when the work was awarded, the work was not even close to samples provided in terms of quality. That is the reason why we wanted to see at least a low resolution or a water marked layout of our website along with the bid.
Unfortunately, none of the bidders sent us the same. So we will not be in a position to award this work to any one. If anyone would have sent us the same, we would have definitely given a bonus for the time and effort put in - even if we did not select them for our work.
We have therefore decided to go ahead with a ready made template.
Thx a lot to all of you for your time and your interest. I am sure we will be able to work together on some project in the future.
Until then all the best to you.
Cheers!