Comments on: Site Launch: Little Quiz

By: I told the little monkey not to do it! « AntGalvin’s Blog

I told the little monkey not to do it! « AntGalvin’s Blog — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:42:57 +0000

[...] the way, some background on the development of the gorgeous site is available here). [...]

By: Sabrina Dent

Sabrina Dent — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:08:47 +0000

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.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:22:11 +0000

I 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.
What 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..

By: steven

steven — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:01:17 +0000

So clean, so simple. Very very nice (Note: I do not consider myself qualified to comment on others work – but I like what I like :) )

By: CronoCloud Creeggan

CronoCloud Creeggan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:49:03 +0000

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.

By: Sabrina Dent

Sabrina Dent — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:04:21 +0000

@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.

By: Ciara Crossan

Ciara Crossan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:56:43 +0000

I 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!!

By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:27:07 +0000

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 :)

By: Joe Scanlon

Joe Scanlon — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:15:09 +0000

It’s all sexy – all of it.
Thank you very very much!