Complete Website Design

[Ibrahim]

Hi,

I need to re-design my PPC Search Engine - SearchXS.com. I am willing to pay a few $$$ for it.

Title: SearchXS.com (XS to more info, more money)

How I want it to be: I want it to look corporate, just too professional. Not flashy, spooky images and fonts..

Examples: I like a few designs, I want my website to look like (or better than) one of these:

- http://www.rackspace.com (All pages)

- http://www.overture.com (Main page and search page)

- http://www.enhance.com (Search page looks too good, I want it the same way)

- http://www.espotting.com (all pages look good, simple and fast to load)

Difficulties: The script I use is SourceGuardian Decoded, so I cant edit a thing. You must be good at PHP or you must be good at html coz I had to add/remove a lot of br, tr, td tags for the search results to be displayed correctly on search page otherwise it went to the bottom, top and odd places..

Time: I need it soon, as soon as possible

Payment: I'll be able to pay $150+

It'd be really good and fast if you could talk to me over msn, yahoo, icq.

msn > [email protected]

yahoo> [email protected]

Thanks,

Ibrahim

[J2000_ca]

With drop down menu (very buggy right now)

http://user.noontide.ca/SearchXS/Example%202.2/Index.html

[wing.]

j2000_ca your choice of colours are bad that bad that it makes it look crap sorry :(

[J2000_ca]

I stole the colors from his old site. I like the red and the blue and the orange, but the rest of them I'll probably change.

[Ibrahim]

Wing.: So True!! :(

J2000_ca: Whateva it its, I want the dropdown, have a look at espotting. Its dropdown menus work in firefox too. I need the advt and part info on main page as on searchfeed too. And as i said, I want a completely new look, please dont take anything from the previous design..I dont like it anymore heh :) and google thing wont work...!

[Miran]

Wing.: So True!! :(

J2000_ca: Whateva it its, I want the dropdown, have a look at espotting. Its dropdown menus work in firefox too. I need the advt and part info on main page as on searchfeed too. And as i said, I want a completely new look, please dont take anything from the previous design..I dont like it anymore heh :) and google thing wont work...!

Pretty demanding for $150 :whistle:

[Ibrahim]

$150 for just 2 pages (Main page and search page) is not so bad.

Anyway, I did the previous design myself and as I said, I want a NEW design, is that any point in taking images and other thins from the old design?

[Ibrahim]

Heres my entry for it!

Lol its me...heh..I tried it myself. Can you please:

- Gimme a very good image to be placed where it says "<some nice image here>" ?

- Gimme some more idea to fill up the empty space?

- Make anything better than this?

:)

[CDog]

Heres my entry for it!

Seeing what everone else has done, looks like you won your own competition :D (Y) I mean that's a very nice, simple design :yes:

[.Atlantis]

^ Agreed. Save your $150 on advertising man.

[Ibrahim]

hehe..yes I think so, just waiting to see if 2 more people who are doing it comes up with something better than that...As I said, I do it myself pretty well. I wanted some one to do it much better that what I could..:) I hope one of those (doing) come up with somethingmuch better soon :)

[.Atlantis]

hehe..yes I think so, just waiting to see if 2 more people who are doing it comes up with something better than that...As I said, I do it myself pretty well. I wanted some one to do it much better that what I could..:) I hope one of those (doing) come up with somethingmuch better soon :)

I'll have a minimal shot later

[TomUsher]

Nice design :)

Wouldn't it be a better idea to have two seperate sites, one for general users, and one for advertisers? Isn't it likely that advertisers are more likely to pay to get listed on your search engine if users aren't going to have to read through a load of 'advertise your site' messages but will instead just see a simple search page? Look how well Google have done for themselves with their sponsored links, yet they only have one simple 'Advertising Programmes' link on their homepage...

I may be completely wrong, or misanalyzed what your trying to achieve... just say if I have :D

.t

[Ibrahim]

Umm..Well, Advertisers login though the same page as affiliates and partners. and Partners and affiliates are almost the same thing except that the partner's percent is higher and his XML status is enabled. Partners and Affiliates dont visit the main page often and mostly Advertisers are to be targetted. So, keeping the text isnt a problem at all :)

[TomUsher]

Yeah but I'm talking about end users, aren't you likely to get more advertisers, partners and affiliates, if they know that it's going to be easier for the end user to find them?

[Ibrahim]

Hm...Good Idea!!

Will remove that text and free up some space..Thanks :)

However, I still need an image or a flash anim to fill up soem emptry space..

[JMann Veteran]

I could make the image to go in the middle, if you wanna give me some ideas and money. lol.

JMann

[JMann Veteran]

An idea for the site. We have to talk first if you want to use the proper image. :yes:

JMann

[Ibrahim]

Hmm..

- Grass doesnt mean anythign LoL :) Should be something techy.

- Logo is repeated twice

- I've already removed those advertiser, affiliate and partner text from bottom

[JMann Veteran]

So really you don't need a bottom banner then?

[chacho]

well these past few designs seem to be very image-heavy. i would advise against that, because a search site really shouldnt take a long time to load for anyone (esp. 56k and below).

as for a suggestion to your original design, removing the "directory" features from the main page is a MUST. it makes the page overwhelming with so much text. take a lesson from google and put it on a seperate page. as for your own entry, it looks too much like google's old design with the tabs at the top. see if you can think of anything more original.

good luck

[JMann Veteran]

Hmm, made a good point there.

JMann

[Ibrahim]

Yes, I already removed those Bottom Sections (Advertisers, Partners and Affiliates)

My engine isnt like a google anyway, its a PayPerClick Search Engine. I need to advertise to get advertisers...so I think I should have some text on the main page and some image(flash prolly) explaining things...

So I'd make two versions. one with those 3 sections at the bottm and without.

I'll change the colors and try something else, however, I dont think of any other different idea....:(

anyone?

[JMann Veteran]

I can see why you call yourself "Cluless Newbie", plus you spelt it wrong. lol. :D "Clueless"

[J2000_ca]

well these past few designs seem to be very image-heavy. i would advise against that, because a search site really shouldnt take a long time to load for anyone (esp. 56k and below).

as for a suggestion to your original design, removing the "directory" features from the main page is a MUST. it makes the page overwhelming with so much text. take a lesson from google and put it on a seperate page. as for your own entry, it looks too much like google's old design with the tabs at the top. see if you can think of anything more original.

good luck

Images heavy? His new one could be done with just one image. Two if they add that bottom banner.

[Pigsweeeper]

The grey area would be replaced by a high tech image ... possibly a building or something like that. Then the bottom would be a flash movie talking about the three types of people also using the site. I think it would look great, but just my suggestion. :cool:

- Also I moved the line with contact closer to the bottom ... i suggest using smaller font and just combining the bottom two lines in my picture. Also the flash would be much less wordy than bunching up all of the text in one frame like it is currently.