Jonesey needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 216 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
Writing 4 the Web
A web content writing consultancy:
- Rewriting existing online content to make it scannable
- Writing web content from scratch
- Providing writing for the web training
- Undertaking content audits
- Providing ongoing maintenance & improving publishing processes
- Facilitating workshops with staff in large organisations to rewrite content and manage large sites
Any business with a website, especially:
- government departments with content heavy sites
- big name corporate sites
- ecommerce sites with product descriptions
- information sites
- web development companies
- content management system providers to partner with
... so mostly targeting people who work full-time and spend most of their day looking at a computer screen. Their organisation has a really bad website (you know the type) and they regularly get complaints. They’re under-resourced so usually just copy and paste information from a printed brochure onto their website.
- use winning logo design from: http://99designs.com/contests/32638/entries/207 (also attached)
- overall design should be clean, clear, simplistic
- body text font must be verdana
- show 8 items on a horizontal main menu (content writing, publishing & maintenance, training, SEO writing, editing & proofreading, about us, item 7, item 8)
- show breadcrumbs
- show a vertical sub-menu – this may not be initially used, so the design should stand on two feet without or without the sub-menu being shown
- show smaller menu in top right-hand-side: might be 'contact us' or contact details
- footer menu with copyright, disclaimer, privacy
- indicate area for blog facility
- indicate area for search facility
Homepage
- show editable news area
Content template
- show body text area and 3 heading levels
- show 1 or 2 images within the content area
- indicate linked and unlinked text within body content area