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Re-design

Hi,

I am trying to bolt a website together but my neatherthal fists do not
posess an ounce of design flair.

I was wondering if any of you talented people out there could have a
look at the following pages and give me a price for a spruce up.

I am not looking for anything flashy (no flash!) and images / loading
speed need to be kept to a minimum. I just have no idea where to start
to make it look more presentable. I want to keep the layout and all of
my pages use the same header and left hand navigation

What I'm looking for is the following,
A re-design of the pages shown below and the production of a colour
scheme and template I can use myself for future pages.
A very simple logo if anyone can think of anything. The idea of the
website should be clear!

I know that this is a very broad brief but I am just starting out and
haven't yet appointed my Marketing Director... Ballpark figure £10 -
£300 but I am open to all offers of education into design pricing as I
have no idea whether those figures are reasonable.

www.structuresonline.co.uk/so/test1.php
www.structuresonline.co.uk/so/test2.php
www.structuresonline.co.uk/so/test3.php

Feel free to email me if you need anything else.

Thanks!

Tom.

Aug 1 '06 #1
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to*********@gmail.com <to*********@gmail.comscripsit:
I am trying to bolt a website together but my neatherthal fists do not
posess an ounce of design flair.
Get to the point early - in Usenet messages and on web pages. When you have
written some babble into the Subject line (or main heading) and into the
first paragraph, you have already wasted the most important places in your
message. Most people go elsewhere, since they didn't see anything
interesting in the first few seconds.

Besides, site design issues belong to c.i.w.a.site-design, not into this
group, which is specifically about HTML.
What I'm looking for is the following,
A re-design of the pages shown below and the production of a colour
scheme and template I can use myself for future pages.
A very simple logo if anyone can think of anything.
Well, that's not what the site really needs first.
The idea of the
website should be clear!
That's a good goal.
www.structuresonline.co.uk/so/test1.php
Well, the idea and purpose is not clear. What's clear is that the page uses
a fixed font size, and a horribly small size at that. Colours add to the
problem, since grey background makes the text a little more difficult to
read.

So please consider what you really need to achieve, and formulate a better
question, and do it in the right group. You should also mention the URL of
the current site and describe the ideas you have in your test versions. And
get rid of the fixed font size first.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

Aug 1 '06 #2
Looks almost OK. Problem is it is too nice (IE too detailed) - nice is how
you tool a knight's armour or something ornamental. However, when attempting
to convey meaning, an abundance of detail can obscure or eclipse what you
are trying to communicate. So always look to simplify - colour differences
are used to separate classes of material to make it easier to concentrate...

Get rid of the violet Test Calcs boxes - have only one if you must, towards
the top describing everything below. Give the work section table headers the
same shade as the toolbar shade to simplify the colour scheme...

--
Timothy Casey GPEMC! >11950 is the nu****@fieldcraft.biz 2email
Terms & conditions apply. See www.fieldcraft.biz/GPEMC
Discover valid interoperable web menus, IE security, TSR Control,
& the most advanced speed reading application @ www.fieldcraft.biz
<to*********@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@p79g2000cwp.googlegr oups.com...
Hi,

I am trying to bolt a website together but my neatherthal fists do not
posess an ounce of design flair.

I was wondering if any of you talented people out there could have a
look at the following pages and give me a price for a spruce up.

I am not looking for anything flashy (no flash!) and images / loading
speed need to be kept to a minimum. I just have no idea where to start
to make it look more presentable. I want to keep the layout and all of
my pages use the same header and left hand navigation

What I'm looking for is the following,
A re-design of the pages shown below and the production of a colour
scheme and template I can use myself for future pages.
A very simple logo if anyone can think of anything. The idea of the
website should be clear!

I know that this is a very broad brief but I am just starting out and
haven't yet appointed my Marketing Director... Ballpark figure £10 -
£300 but I am open to all offers of education into design pricing as I
have no idea whether those figures are reasonable.

www.structuresonline.co.uk/so/test1.php
www.structuresonline.co.uk/so/test2.php
www.structuresonline.co.uk/so/test3.php

Feel free to email me if you need anything else.

Thanks!

Tom.
Aug 3 '06 #3

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