Doing a nice mockup could significantly increase your chances of getting this. It would be worth it because I award a lot of design projects. You can look at my feedback. I never ask for mockups, but for this one, knowing if you can produce something that is very esthetically pleasing is VERY important.
I will already be providing you with the base of the design (attached). Below is the feedback on that design.
Description.
So we need to capture the elegance of a site like salesforce.com that is an enterprise saas…. but also something like eventbrite.com or ebay.com that has a consumer based front end.
Essentially, right now, the design is just a shell. The layout will stay very similar but we need to graphically improve the design. So I dont have an issue with the positioning of things.. it just just that everything looks very bland.
Also, I wanted the color scheme to be shades of blue (kind of like how google does thing or even how salesforce.com is predominantly blue) however, now the only color is blue and it doenst look very good as there are no other contrasting colors anywhere.
1. The section on the top right just looks very sloppy.
The top border doesnt exist. There are both rounded corners and hard edges etc.
Those things need to be cleaned up so that it looks very organized.
2. My search bar is very bland.
I like how eventbrite.com and overstock.com does the shading on their search bar.
I dont like all the different lines in mine
3. The part with (some text related to products)
I want you to replace the wine bottles with a pair of high end shoes like this
http://www.islingback.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/vln73881_r400.jpg
I want the box to look just like the one does on overstock.com
notice the box is very clean. The image looks like a photo.
I dont want the type of blue buttons i have for 1 2 3 4 like on my mockup.
I want it to be just like the ones on overstock.com in the same position
I also like the size of that box as well. so make mine more like that size
4.Change the text on Popular Deals to Upcoming Sales
change the text on By City to By Date
And the text should say the following..use this to replace the current text
Zak Posen – Style yourself in gems from this stunning sale Jan 20th noon
Category- Shoes Duration 36 hours 70 percent off
5. Activity feed text should be like this..rotating
R. Livsey just purchased 2 Gucci shoes at 70 percent off at the Gucci Sale
Roberta Carvalho just announced a designer bag sale for March 13th
use those two and do them 3 times to replace the text that is currently there
I have bolded the things that should be hotlinks
6. the 5 links underneath every link on the footer should be position just slightly over to the right
and the font on company services etc should probably just be slightly larger
7. Here is list of changes for the right hand side section
a. the special offer content manager button should say
Editors’ Picks
Featured products picked by staff.
b. the free trial salesforce crm for 30 days should be
Earn money and free gifts
Join our network now
c. change the text on
editing and pricing to Categories
cloud and crm resources to Shop Directory
8. do the copyright and follow up the bottom just like it is done here
http://www.eventbrite.com/
9. above the signup for updates section on the right. Well..not really above. We are going to keep the same axis and make an addition (thus pushing everything else down).. We are going to put in a section that says
Deal Guides
and it is going to be just like the section on etsy.com