Sabrina Dent: Freelance web designer, developer and internet marketer living in Cork, Ireland with one dog and a husband in no particular order.
Site Launch: Little Quiz
I finished up work for LittleQuiz.com some time ago, but they were waiting for their swanky swag to arrive so they could launch. For this project, branding, slogan, blog and website design and a bunch of product and print design was done by me; the site and system was coded by the very talented Dave of Ambient Age.
This was definitely a Stalinist web design project but Joe Scanlon is an ideal client and did indeed love what I gave him. It can also be tricky when you’re doing design and someone else is coding, but what Dave turned out looks exactly like the mock ups, to the pixel, and that isn’t easy. Plus his Ajax bits are very sexy.
22 Sep 2009
| In: Portfolio | Tags:css, Design, print, Stalinist, swag, wordpress, xhtml
It’s all sexy – all of it.
22.09.2009, 1:15 pmThank you very very much!
I can normally spot yours a mile off but would never have put this down as one of yours when I saw it, I like :)
22.09.2009, 1:27 pmI got to see this when it was still mid-design. Loved it then, love it all the more now that it is up and running and can see you ALL-OVER the blog! :P
Great work, well done to all you guys and I am especially thrilled for Joe who has been wanting to start a web business for as long as I have known him, which to be fair is just a year or so, so well done!!
22.09.2009, 1:56 pm@Niall: Oh great so what you’re saying is you don’t usually like my stuff? :P Just kidding – I do typically use illustration (I got photo’d out in the 90s) because it’s fun and appealing to visitors, but this also has a very clean and conservative colour scheme that is not in my normal go-to pallet because corporate sponsors were going to be critical here.
The simplicity was driven by the part where, if I’m remembering this right, I had exactly 1 hour and 54 minutes to get Joe an emergency homepage design before getting in a car (with Ciara, in fact) for the long bank holiday weekend in June. Basic Web 2.0 formula: colour header bar + large white contrast field + body offset field + footer in colour bar colour = website.
Amusingly, that design is still largely what you see here. Some times it takes 2 hours; sometimes it takes 2 weeks. That’s why I quote per-project; it’s not the client’s fault if the design muse is on hiatus.
Anyway, I’m glad you like it; I do too.
I like the simple, clean look of it. Plus it’s very fast, and who doesn’t love monkeys. Monkey needs monkeypants though, that would rock.
22.09.2009, 7:49 pmSo clean, so simple. Very very nice (Note: I do not consider myself qualified to comment on others work – but I like what I like :) )
23.09.2009, 4:01 pmI must say I’m not such a big fan of that site’s design. E.g. those glossy buttons I would rather expect to find on some shady website. Anyway, that’s just my personal taste.
23.09.2009, 9:22 pmWhat I’d really like to know however is the idea/concept behind this site? Cause I don’t get it. Is it “just” advertising and giving out prices of the respective sponsors?
And yes, the swag is nice..
No worries, plenty of room for personal taste. It’s a big web!
We’re still working on explaining this on the site, but the business concept is simple: each week, one sponsor pays to promote their product or service via the LQ quiz, newsletter and blog. That’s how they make money – pretty straight forward. The value for the sponsor is tight niche and sheer volume.
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