Website refresh! Software products and services.

B2B site: 3 page templates, Well thought out requirements, brief and some wireframes

Contest Holder TVD2011 ?

Last Logged in : 3547days14hrs ago

Concepts Submitted

111

Guaranteed Prize

555

Winner(s)

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Project: Website refresh! Software product ...

Industry: Information Technology Logo

Contest Launched: Nov 02, 2011

Selected: 1 winning design from 111 concepts

Winning Design by: mincedfruits

Close Date: Feb 09, 2012

Website refresh! Software products and services. - Information Technology

Concept #97

Awarded as a winner

#97

#38

#73

#58

#74

#65

#56

#47

#46

#110

#109

#101

#100

#99

#96

#95

#94

#93

#92

Creative Brief

Title

Website refresh! Software products and services.

Subtitle

B2B site: 3 page templates, Well thought out requirements, brief and some wireframes

Industry type

Information Technology

Company URL (if exists)

www.tvd.co.nz

About company

TVD is a software company focussed on Operations Management and Operations Intelligence systems for Utilities (Elec, Gas, Water), Transport/Logistics companies, and Radio network users. We have been in business for 10+ years and have clients all over the world. Our products are robust, credible, and meet the needs of these customers.

Likes/Dislikes

This is a B2B site. Needs to be clean and easy to navigate, information, screen shots, relevant graphics. Refer to the attached preliminary design brief.

Website Image

Clean/Simple

Professional

Content Driven

Friendly

International

Sophisticated

Corporate

Modern

Progressive

Service Oriented

High Tech

First color

Red banner

Second color

White

Third color

Blue

Font Selection

Navigation Placement

left side

Website URL 1

www.powellinc.com

Website URL 2

http://www.3cx.com

Website URL 3

http://www.ge-energy.com/products_and_services/products/utility_operations_software/

Additional Comments

CMS will be wordpress. 3 page Templates and associated graphics. 1. Home/Landing page 2. Inside Category and Product Pages 3. Miscellaneous pages, eg Contact Us, Careers, News & Events, etc. Refer to the attached Summary design brief which has example sites, UI ideas, Wireframes of suggested page layout. Copy will also be provided to the selected designer so they can see how the content will fit with design.

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Discussion

Comments

November 27, 2011 2:31 PM
TVD2011
Project Holder

Hi Designers of #38, #62, #73, #78, #56, #65, #46, we have re-opened the project, sorry about the error and we'll look forward to seeing your latest efforts.

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November 25, 2011 10:06 PM
TVD2011
Project Holder

Designers, sorry we forgot to extend/re-open the project so you could upload your images. As it's now the weekend we'll extend it on Monday, so we don't burn the 3 day extension over the weekend. Have a good weekend and we'll look forward to finalising next week! :)

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November 25, 2011 12:45 AM
TVD2011
Project Holder

Hi great designers! We eliminated designs just so we can focus on the current ones. General – A clean uncluttered look is preferred. Some accent colouring is good, but lots of different bold colours and drop shadows, etc makes it look a bit to busy and confusing and maybe makes it feel like we are trying to be too clever. The site doesn’t need to be “3 equal columns”. So the image can be bigger than just twice the width of the buttons. Top header area – this should just have the “red stripe” (as per current TVD website), TVD logo and swap out images of water/elec etc as per current site. It is quite a bright red. Menu bar – We prefer a menu bar, we don’t like a “tabbed” style. The menu bar items will have a drop down menu on mouse over like in our current site, please show what that would look like. The Support button, and Google language selection combo should be in the menu bar. Home button (far left in menu bar) should be a “house/home” icon, not a word. RH buttons - The buttons on the Right hand side will not point to the picture on the left so they simply need to be buttons, with a mouse over highlight. We think the “Contact Us” column/block is best if it is lined up with the RH button width/column, and then equally size the other two blocks (News and Latest release) under the “5-image” lightbox. Hope this helps you keep creating some great images for us to choose from.

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November 23, 2011 2:51 PM
TVD2011
Project Holder

All designers, sorry for the delay in selecting a designe, we are intending to do that this week, and then work with that designer to finalise the home page and then the 2 inside templates. Thankyou for your patience, and great work.

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November 09, 2011 6:40 PM
TVD2011
Project Holder

All designers, thanks for your great efforts! We are extending by 3 days to give us and you more time to refine home page design and also look at what the other 2 inside page templates and accordion menu etc would look like. Feel free to start giving us ideas for those. Some general comments; The site will be fixed width. We think a light colour, white? is a better column colour for the outside “stretchy” areas. We are pretty sure we’ll go with 3 boxes (see my earlier comments). We will add a “translate” button http://translate.google.com/translate_tools (inline-dropdown only) on the main page. Specific comments: Smartinfo: #23 - Try with the 3 columns. The news section is far too busy. Move the “5 image block” up so there is less gap. What would top and side menu/buttons look like mouse over/click? We like the support button in the main menu and the use of the water/elec/gas image in the top logo area. We eliminated #32 but liked that you had included the SEO footer links block as per my comments. I sort of like #20, but the “5 image block” will be on a slider (wowslider), and I don’t think the transparent buttons will work. Pentacreative: we eliminated 2 of yours just because they were similar it was easier to focus comments on one, #36. Ewe like the clean look and that you had showed what the mouse over/click on top menu and RH side buttons would look like. The banner colour “burnt red” doesn’t look right. Move the support button into the menu bar? And put the contact details from the brief doc in that area? Show option using the top RH water/elec/gas images from the current site? We don’t like the pointy blue button, maybe a little whit space between them so they look more “buttony”? LSArt: we left the latest one of yours, #37 simply because it was easier to comment on one rather than many. Remove the phone # from the top bar, depending on where the visitor is f4rom they can call a local country # as per Contact Us area. The “5 image block” will be on a slider (wowslider), and I don’t think the curved buttons will work? Also at this stage I think we’ll leave off the images e.g. tick or magnifying lass, but maybe a fade out part of the TVD logo highlighted on mouse over? Would be interested in some other concepts along your lines. Creative media: #25 the font isn’t clean and easy to read. Most readers will be age 30-50’s. Mincedfruits: This is also nice and clean, #19, but probably needs to be more cohesive, the blocks look to separate?. Maybe also make the mouse over of the menus red? The email link at the top should go as its already in the contact us section. Tebuck: We stiil quite like how clean #18 is but it’s a little bland, maybe revise taking into consideration some of the other comments? Igorvess: #5, Can you update your design taking into consideration comments made? Also the red line under the blue menu flares so should be removed. Rockit: #3 we still quite like how “clean” this is, the RH buttons are fairly obvious that they are buttons, etc. Can you update your design taking into consideration comments made?

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November 08, 2011 8:29 PM
TVD2011
Project Holder

Thanks Designers! We need to have the red "line" at the top of the page and I quite like the "Support button" idea in #19 and #18. We are going to have a discussion this afternoon and will post up some more comments. Thanks!

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November 07, 2011 8:42 PM
TVD2011
Project Holder

If having the TVD logo on the LH side and nothing on the RHS maybe use the RH images we have on the current site?

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November 07, 2011 8:42 PM
TVD2011
Project Holder

If having the TVD logo on the LH side and nothing on the LHS maybe use the RH images we have on the current site?

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November 07, 2011 8:04 PM
TVD2011
Project Holder

We don't want social media buttons on the home page. If using 3 Boxes (under the main image)they would be; Announcements and News Featured Product release Contact Us If using 2 Boxes (under the main image) they would be; Announcements and News Contact Us The Support Portal button can be on the same menu bar (but can be seperate graphic like in #3)

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November 07, 2011 7:58 PM
TVD2011
Project Holder

Igorvess, #5 is quite good, but seems to be to narrow? Also the various component parts eg Central image, Buttons, Contact etc areas seem to be quite disconnected?

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November 07, 2011 7:54 PM
TVD2011
Project Holder

Sorry tebuck #14 looks a bit confusing to users. Feel free to put forward something that is simpler along the lines we've suggested.

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November 07, 2011 7:52 PM
TVD2011
Project Holder

Hi Rockit, #1 & #3 I quite like the simplicity of the layout but can you drop the multi coloured top border and use solid red (we use that on our stationery etc). Also remove the Online Support and client login (that would happen via the Support Portal button). Can you also show what a "moused over/clicked" button would look like as shown in #5.

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November 07, 2011 7:38 PM
TVD2011
Project Holder

Overall we prefer a white background. The black/grey in #1, #2, #3, #7 is to heavy.

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November 07, 2011 7:30 PM
TVD2011
Project Holder

FastDesgner your designs #7, #8, #9, #10, #12 are all the same?

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November 06, 2011 6:05 PM
TVD2011
Project Holder

All we will also need to include Footer links on each page, they'll be part of the CSS but may be useful to show them in your designs. Same group of items as the main menu.

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November 06, 2011 5:54 PM
TVD2011
Project Holder

Hi, Thanks for the designs so far. We're just taking a look at them now and will post feedback later today. Keep going though...!

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