Elkhart Titans Baseball Team basic site design, logo vectorization-$200-March 10th

[nevadabadgirl]

Contest_Holder: jdrew

Company_Details: no company (though I work for Group 262 which has an account here - this account is only used for personal stuff)

Type_Of_Contest: Website Design & Logo Vectorization

Title: Elkhart Titans Baseball Team basic site design, logo vectorization

Deadline: March 10, 2008

Prize: $200

Colors: your choice

Comments: My dad runs a small baseball program with teams in a couple age categories. The program (and each team) is called Elkhart Titans. Elkhart is the city where they're located. Dad asked me to help with a website, but I'm a programmer (i.e. definitely not a designer). I have been given an existing logo (http://elkharttitans.com/logo.gif). I don't need any significant changes to the logo, but I need a clean copy of it (without compression artifacts) in a vector format. That's the first part of this contest (very easy I hope). There is not a separate prize for the logo - I hope that's okay.

For the meat of the project, I need a basic website design that accommodates these menu items: calendar, sponsors, fields and directions, roster, documents, reminders, news, photos.

I like Web 2.0-style sites. I can't find a single baseball team website that's worth showing as an example. I'm not opposed to buying some cheap stock photos. My mental image is of a light-colored site with some generic baseball photo(s) and the Titans' logo in the header. Feel free to go a different direction if you get inspired.

Technical requests: * 800x600 target resolution * HTML/CSS w/images (including vector-format logo) as deliverables * the menu needs to be text-based (i.e. CSS-styled list items, I presume). * CSS should include h1 - h4 definitions (even if they're not used in your design - I just want them to fit the design when I use those elements later, and you'll do a better job of making them fit than me) I just need one page design. I'll take your HTML/CSS and make a header and footer as I flesh out the content.

I'd like to have the right to use, not use, and/or revise any part of the contest winner's design. I don't know if that's implied, so I'd like to state it explicitly.

[jdrew]

anyone?

[nevadabadgirl]

I could work on an entry for the web site part, but alas, I cannot vectorize the logo

[JAZZZ]

Hello,
here is my entry..

Click here

I can vectorize the logo if chosen..
Thanks!

Jazzz

[nevadabadgirl]

One of the designers here will vectorize the logo for me, so I will have an entry or 2 before deadline.

[jdrew]

Jazzz:

Originally Posted by JAZZZ

here is my entry..

Click here

I can vectorize the logo if chosen..

That's a nice design. I have a couple questions:

• what are the stock photo costs?
• would you be able to replace the girls with boys (or a gender-neutral photo) in a final design?

[jdrew]

Jazzz's submission reminded me of something I should have noted in the contest description... these are boys' baseball teams. I don't know if there will be girls' teams eventually, but that's far in the future if ever.

[jdrew]

I have been given some photographs... they're not great quality, but maybe something is useful:


http://elkharttitans.com/pictures.zip

The file is about 30 megabytes.

[JAZZZ]

Thank you for the feedback. I'll try to find another picture.and i'll let u know about the cost of the stock aswell (if its not free)..

Thanks!
Jazzz

[tomas.brolen]

Little question...

Am I as a non 'Design Team Member' allowed to participate in this contest?
(It didn't say anything about it like in the other contest forums)

/ Tomas

[Chung Dha]

Yes these contest are open to new member or people who are not in the design team yet. This is a chance for them to design for companies to show what they can do.

[nevadabadgirl]

Here is my first attempt, all feedback is appreciated. The 2 stock photos used in this design is a total of $2. One is free.

http://www.nevadaprodesign.com/baseballgreen.jpg

[JAZZZ]

Hello,
heres the header with the group photo of the team you supplied. Let me know what you think.

Click Here

Thanks!
Jazzz

[tomas.brolen]

Since I'm allowed...

Heres my 1st attempt.
Done in Notepad using xhtml strict/css2. The logo isn't a "serious" one but just a quick one since I'm not (yet) an expert in Illustrator vector images.

All Images in layered Photoshop .psd.
The baseball is a free ($0) stock photo and plain text above.
Other photos are from those supplied in .zip.
Icons are open source.

In the top menu the 'Documents' link shows the hover/active state.
In the footer the hover state is the link shown in black.

It's just a quick one so suggestions and feedback are welcome.

Link to preview (262kb .jpg in lower quality): (url removed se post #27)

/ Tomas

[tomas.brolen]

2nd idea...

Very very rough image editing... but an idea how it could look.

Same info as previous idea...

Link to preview 800*600 screen (308kb .jpg in lower quality):
(url removed se post #27)

Link to preview 1280*1024 screen (323kb .jpg in lower quality):
(url removed se post #27)

/Tomas

[tomas.brolen]

BTW is there a chance you know the name or can supply the font for the logo?

[jdrew]

Originally Posted by tomas.brolen

BTW is there a chance you know the name or can supply the font for the logo?

I'm told it's "Script MT Bold".

I don't have the font myself.

[tomas.brolen]

Originally Posted by jdrew

I'm told it's "Script MT Bold".

I don't have the font myself.

Great. I thought it was either that or the one I used "Brush Script MT"...

Heres a new picture with updated font, 302kb.

What i meant earlier was that the group picture wasn't cut out 100% (you can still see a few pixels here and there from the sky and so, plus that one has to build shoulders/arms on the leaders/trainers to the left and right so they aren't cut of etc) plus that the gradients need a polish so they look better and match the "Elkhart colors" more exact.

(url removed se post #27)

/ Tomas

[jdrew]

thanks for the submissions so far

here's some feedback:

nevadabadgirl

• I like that there's not a ton of space to fill with text - writing content stinks
• I like the strong sponsor presence
• If I went with your design, could we switch out the catcher picture with one from the zip file? If there aren't any suitable pictures, I could maybe stage some.

Jazzz

• Nice work adding the picture of the team - did you add a shoulder for the guy on the left!? Nice.

tomas.brolen

• version 1: not much to say - I like it a lot; thanks for the xhtml strict and css - you know how to get a programmer fired up
• version 2: another solid design though I prefer ver. 1 due to the contrast (background colors and the header image)

[nevadabadgirl]

Sure, we can put any picture in there we want. That would bring the cost of the stock photos down to $1. As for the content area, I too hate to write content (UGH!), but it will stretch down as far as you like it to, it expands due to the tiling background. I can code it in xhtml/css tableless design, it's what I specialize in

I will try to work with some of the photos in the zip tonight, to give you a preview.