Web Design Contest

opencargo.biz

by alexe

Contest received 118 entries and the contest holder has awarded a winner.

Winning entry by Better

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

Discussion:

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alexe Contest Holder
Hello everyone, I'll add some more info links that might help yr work. A brief intro: most of the trade of the world is transported by ships, either as full cargoes or in container boxes. We focus, for the time being, only on full cargoes that go to a minimum of 200 metric tonnes for a medium size river barge up to 1/2 million metric tonnes for the biggest tankers. The struggle is always to find matching cargo for the next trip as near as possible to the port of discharge. It is still done mostly like in the old days, just with business contacts and knowledge of the market. Our aim is to make this website an irreplaceable business tool for this trade. The website is @ www.opencargo.biz and this release is just few days old. As you see the home page is quite simple, I'd like to keep it as simple and clean as possible. Screen sized, with no scrolling needed would be perfect. The elements we need to keep are the logo and the top menu, everything else can be rearranged, redesigned or even go if the result is good. What we need is an illustration of the webiste object, static or flash, and some taglines that "lure" people in. Here are a couple of links which might give u some hints: http://www.porto.monfalcone.gorizia.it/ http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/it/default.aspx Please do not subscribe to the website for the purpose of seeing what it does, you can browse most of it without logging in but, if you still want the full tour, let me know and I'll give u a temp login. Best of luck everyone! Alessandro
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alexe Contest Holder
following Entry #118532 by: csshobbyist please take into cosideration that : 1st RSS feed and twitter broadcast same feed : the ads; 2nd I'd like no photographs; 3rd maybe less info can be more effective
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alexe Contest Holder
following Entry #118897 by: maadezine please be adsived that only Twitter and RSS feed are implemented in the website, no Facebook or the like. Also even if the desing is quite good it's not complying to requirements as there is too much stuff in the page
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alexe Contest Holder
@ everyone 1) as stated before the website is NOT about containers, all photographs till now are containers, container ships and containers cranes 2) I would really prefer not to have photographs but some illustration either flash or a static design (which I'd prefer as it's lighter)
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alexe Contest Holder
@ everyone first I must thanks all of you for your efforts, here is a colour card of paints used for the ships and as you might notice the logo follows it, please try to adhere to it http://www.hempel.com/Internet/inecorporatec.nsf/vDOC/207FB384E7139219C1256BE4004DF139?OpenDocument most important note I must bring up is that I made this contest with the hope of getting some original artwork, in flash or static design, but neverteless ORIGINAL ! an example, even if not really related is http://www.uship.com
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ginalin Creative
is this is just design or coding?
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alexe Contest Holder
I think 10 days are a bit too short for this kind of contest, I'm asking for a little extension, just a couple of days more. I love last 2 submissions 121158 & 121149. Have to check with other ppl and we'll see what they think. Anyways great job everyone, thank you all.
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ginalin Creative
I'm in :D
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alexe Contest Holder
here are some photos of ships and port cranes just to give you an idea: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3779779/1840678306_98c6d5a036.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3779779/3337848350_27ddd67483.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3779779/3466126703_20605b98be.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3779779/3477407786_7ddf41031f.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3779779/3527978579_5e77125bb8_m.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3779779/3611829965_296c999031.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3779779/3691811877_0557bb788b.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3779779/3784680028_6f337d31e3.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3779779/4403452160_937c6f9706.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3779779/FLINTEREEMS%20.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3779779/GHMK7608_Belgium.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3779779/HMK260E_Monfalcone.jpg
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alexe Contest Holder
thanks to everyone, as the previous time I did a contest on hatchwise (it was still elogocontest back then) it has been an amazing experience! I've narrowed down to 3 designers and 5 (almost) concepts. I'll take 2 or 3 days to select the winner, need to consult with others. Again, a big thank you to every one for participating!
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alexe Contest Holder
Sorry it took it more than expected to pick a winner. Thanks to everyone for participating and my apologies if I have been a bit too "cold" with some of my coments. A special thank goes to Neera, my favorite. Majority rules, the argument was yr design is too extravagant for a b2b website, go figure... hope to have the occasion of working here again