Web Design Contest

Stacy Lynn London

by stacylondon

Contest received 41 entries and the contest holder has awarded a winner.

Winning entry by brandasaur

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Congratulations to winner brandasaur ! They were awarded the contest prize of $500.00

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#495074 by brandasaur

WINNING ENTRY

#498920 by vivekkarthick

Web Design entry 498920 submitted by vivekkarthick

#497866 by adyyy

Web Design entry 497866 submitted by adyyy

#497825 by adyyy

Web Design entry 497825 submitted by adyyy

#493852 by dzengy

Web Design entry 493852 submitted by dzengy

#500513 by bonzaiaware

Web Design entry 500513 submitted by bonzaiaware

#497873 by adyyy

Web Design entry 497873 submitted by adyyy

#497871 by adyyy

Web Design entry 497871 submitted by adyyy

#497824 by adyyy

Web Design entry 497824 submitted by adyyy

#497501 by adyyy

Web Design entry 497501 submitted by adyyy

#495903 by rushtorp

Web Design entry 495903 submitted by rushtorp

#495440 by adyyy

Web Design entry 495440 submitted by adyyy

#495093 by adyyy

Web Design entry 495093 submitted by adyyy

#494561 by adyyy

Web Design entry 494561 submitted by adyyy

#494950 by adyyy

Web Design entry 494950 submitted by adyyy

#500573 by dragnoir

Web Design entry 500573 submitted by dragnoir

#500509 by bonzaiaware

Web Design entry 500509 submitted by bonzaiaware

#499195 by Remus

Web Design entry 499195 submitted by Remus

#494319 by brandasaur

Web Design entry 494319 submitted by brandasaur

#498919 by vivekkarthick

Web Design entry 498919 submitted by vivekkarthick

#500572 by dragnoir

Web Design entry 500572 submitted by dragnoir

#494539 by adyyy

Web Design entry 494539 submitted by adyyy

#494970 by adyyy

Web Design entry 494970 submitted by adyyy

#494973 by jnjnnino

Web Design entry 494973 submitted by jnjnnino

#495058 by dzengy

Web Design entry 495058 submitted by dzengy

#495863 by rushtorp

Web Design entry 495863 submitted by rushtorp

#495532 by jnjnnino

Web Design entry 495532 submitted by jnjnnino

#500576 by dragnoir

Web Design entry 500576 submitted by dragnoir

#495087 by adyyy

Web Design entry 495087 submitted by adyyy

#500574 by dragnoir

Web Design entry 500574 submitted by dragnoir

#500578 by dragnoir

Web Design entry 500578 submitted by dragnoir

#500577 by dragnoir

Web Design entry 500577 submitted by dragnoir

#494300 by brandasaur

Web Design entry 494300 submitted by brandasaur

#495084 by adyyy

Web Design entry 495084 submitted by adyyy

#495078 by adyyy

Web Design entry 495078 submitted by adyyy

#495076 by adyyy

Web Design entry 495076 submitted by adyyy

#494962 by adyyy

Web Design entry 494962 submitted by adyyy

#498922 by vivekkarthick

Web Design entry 498922 submitted by vivekkarthick

#498875 by vivekkarthick

Web Design entry 498875 submitted by vivekkarthick

#495069 by brandasaur

Web Design entry 495069 submitted by brandasaur

#494338 by brandasaur

Web Design entry 494338 submitted by brandasaur

Discussion:

rushtorp Creative

I agree with efpoff.

stacylondon Contest Holder

Thanks brandasaur, jnjnnino, etpoff, rushtorp... My experience with this contest is an eye-opener. I agree with efpoff, hatchwise needs to provide better support from the start to contest holders. There needs to be more descriptions and questions to answer at the onset. As a contest holder obiviously I do not have the skill set to do this myself or I won't be looking for someone else's work. Along with that, if I don't have the experience how am I suppose to know coded, uncoded, and pricing, etccc. It pretty much sucks for me, because I was excited to use this site, not to get something for cheap but to get the opprotunity to see ideas from multiple designers. Had I known two weeks ago what I know now ...

efpoff Creative

Stacy - you've been a great contest holder (I've been watching this contest from the beginning) - and you are right - there needs to be more questions and help along the way. Personally, I think the first thing to do is ask the designers you have rated the highest if they are willing and able to put the site together for you (if so then you are probably okay). If not, when you pick a winner you should ask for a Layered PSD file (designers will know what this is). This way you walk out of this contest with a complete design. Since you want to manage your own site (blog - content - etc) you'll probably want a content management system (CMS) set up for you - and the one I would recommend is WordPress. You can get someone to slice up that design and create a theme for your site (code it). This person will make the design "live" and set up all of your other pages, social media links, video & photo collection, etc. Don't worry - you are on the right path. You are getting some excellent designs - you may just need to get a 2nd person to implement the design correctly! -Elizabeth

stacylondon Contest Holder

Thanks for the advice and encouragement. I appreciate it Elizabeth.

bonzaiaware Creative

Hi Stacey and everyone. This project seems interesting to me. Just wanted to expand on the topic a little bit. brandasur is talking about coding a backend or is he talking a but using a content management system. There's just no way he is talking about coding anything here, lol. $500 budget just doesn't cover more than a few hours of customized content management template. Which is the optimal way to go for this project. In case we talk about actual custom programming the budget would grow up to 1k+. So not to let you be confused by some proud & senseless opinions I red above. You need to get a designed which will be then applied to a CMS (content management system) template. The best you can get is have this template implemented into a CMS, better in Wordpress, as it weights less and performs better than most. It will give you a back-end with all the features you have mentioned above. And $500 is a a bit too low for this. brandasaur seems to just mess with the rest :(

bonzaiaware Creative

I totally agree with efpoff. Who knows may be I'll throw in a PSD or two, I'd love to find some time tonight )))

Remus Creative

I'm a programmer more than a designer, i can code templates very easy, make the principal pages and i'm doing it for the same price. I use html,css and javascript, no php. I've been coding many html pages, i can send you examples if you want. I'm the only one here that can do this, more there will be no suplimentar costs. For me will be easyer to code it than it was to actually design it.

bonzaiaware Creative

Remus show us some links !

bonzaiaware Creative

Remus: I want to see the session kept properly and no bugs...It's really hard to do better than PHP. CMSes took a lot of business from me I deeply hate them, but they are as good as it gets right now and I can say that I hate Wordpress way less than Joomla and the rest.

bonzaiaware Creative

Stacey are you still with us ? I have just talked to my programmer guy, he also works with CMS. We both agree that $500 is a bit too much for just a layout design and a bit too little for the complete site. We can offer you a complete Word Press driven site with the features you have listed above for $850 all together. Look me up.