Catchy, clever and classy website design for Polo business located on Queensland's stunning Sunshine Coast.

Anything Web - holder: Ecosse Farms Polo

Contest Brief

WON!
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10
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$300.00

Brand Name
Ecosse Farms Polo

Short Description
Ecosse farms polo is a small business offering polo coaching, horse schooling, horse sale, leasing and hire and horse agistment. We need a simple but smart website that captures the excitement of polo and advertises our services to people who are interested in trying the sport. You can get our logo here: http://www.designerholic.com/files/contests/40/EcossePoloLogo.jpg

Long Description
There is no other business in our area that offers the services we offer - Polo coaching, horse lease, sale and hire, agistment, pony schooling. No one knows about us so we need a web presence so that people interested in polo can find us and use us as their entry into the world of polo. Target audience is people who are not currently polo players but want to try something new and exciting. The other market is horse owners looking for somewhere to keep their horses. The design needs to be very stylish and intriguing. People who are interested in polo are generally interested in glamour, adrenaline, excitement, horses and extreme sport. We are located close to the beautiful and popular Sunshine Coast area of Queensland Australia. We are definitly not 'elitist'. We have a farm and our style is relaxed and down to earth. So while the site needs to be stylish it cannot be intimidating it needs to be welcoming. Other design preferences- Colours - Burgundy, silver and white; Clean and simple - not too busy; Lots of pictures - less words; Easy to navigate

I Don't Like
see comments included in I like AND I don't want too many words. Polo is an exciting sport the images should largely speak for themselves

I Like
Simple sites that are easy to navigate and have a WOW factor! I lilke sites that have a personal feel to them so that when i look at them i feel that real people are behind them not just a business. http://www.estanciadonmanuel.com/ - nice feel to it - welcoming. Relativly easy to navigate. Like the layout, quick loading pictures and there are not too many words. (DONT LIKE THE MUSIC) http://www.lamartina.com/ use of photos, top banner, ease of navigation http://www.stanbroke.com.au/ - simplicity and use of photos DONT like the white writing or how the info covers the photos. http://www.polokidogo.com - nice clean and simple site. These guys are doing exactly what we want to do in terms of the business. Easy to navigate. Printable calendar. Headings. Dont like the small font size. There is a little too much writing and not enough pics. http://www.d-scribe.com.au - colours, ease of navigation, clean and simple. Good font and size. http://www.magualpolo.com.ar/ - use of pictures, simplicity of site. Like the moving mouse pointer when you click on the tabs. Don't like the small white writing as it is too hard to read. Also don't like how the information come in and hides the photo.

Payment Notes
This contest is Pre-Paid.
Currently designerholic is paying via Paypal and Money Bookers only. We may add more providers in the future. Money will be allocated to the winning designers Designerholic account at handover.

Ecosse farms polo is a small business offering polo coaching, horse schooling, horse sale, leasing and hire and horse agistment. We need a simple but smart website that captures the excitement of polo and advertises our services to people who are interested in trying the sport. You can get our logo here: http://www.designerholic.com/files/contests/40/EcossePoloLogo.jpg

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#174	bysgd

#173	bysgd

#172	bysgd	Silver
2nd

#164	byfuzzyllama	Gold
1st	winner

#141	byjayesh

#125	bysgd

#95	bysgd

#78	byYIKES! Graphic De	Bronze
3rd

#77	byfuzzyllama

#54	byfuzzyllama

eMp visitor	13 months ago: Hi contest holder, Could you provide some images from your business? Or you settle with stock images? Thanks, eMp

Ecosse Farms Polo contest holder	13 months ago: I really like this design. The introduction of green to the colours works well. It is clean and easy to get around. I would like to incorporate our logo somehow so I need to send that to you. I'm not sure if you can access is from the Designerhoic site? I like the New TO Polo button because that gives someone who might be otherwise intimidated a place to start.

Ecosse Farms Polo contest holder	13 months ago: At this stage I am happy with stock images

Flame visitor	13 months ago: Hi there! Do you need only the Psd files. Or you need all web page code and ready to use?

fuzzyllama designer	13 months ago: Sorry didn't realise you had a logo until after I'd submitted it! I'll do a revision after the weekend and add the logo in. Anything else you'd like to see differently? Thanks, AJ

DH Admin DH Admin	13 months ago: Hi Flame, The Web Contests are for the complete source in graphical format (wether that be psd, png etc). No coding is required.

YIKES! Graphic Design designer	13 months ago: Hi there, is it just a home page that is required for starters? Most projects for web I get involved with start with home page visual, and then once that is approved I move on to another page? Is this the same concept or do you have to supply all apges upon entry?

YIKES! Graphic Design designer	13 months ago: Also, how does one get hold of the Ecosse Farms logo?

DH Admin DH Admin	13 months ago: Hi Yikes, A designerholic web contest is for 1 page only. So while a designer is only required to submit 1 homepage design, the contest holder may ask for a concept of a second page, but it is up to the designers decision whether or not they will provide a second page.

Ecosse Farms Polo contest holder	13 months ago: Hello Yikes - a second page would be great.

Ecosse Farms Polo contest holder	13 months ago: Yikes - are you able to access the logo from Designerholic site?

YIKES! Graphic Design designer	13 months ago: Yep, i see the link now. I reckon a home page design first, if you like it then we will roll on to subsequent page.

YIKES! Graphic Design designer	13 months ago: Downloded the jpeg. Is it possible to provide eps? Will use the jpeg for now.

YIKES! Graphic Design designer	13 months ago: Visual submitted. Thanks.

fuzzyllama designer	13 months ago: Hi there, You obviously like design #54. What can I do to make this a 5 star design that you love? Thanks for your input! AJ

sgd designer	13 months ago: Hi Please give us some feedback so we know which direction to develop our designs. Thanks!

fuzzyllama designer	13 months ago: No offence to your design sgd, but large photographic backgrounds are generally considered web-unfriendly... just interested to know how you'd address that?

fuzzyllama designer	13 months ago: Hi Ecosse Farms Polo, If you'd like to give any of the designs a bit more feedback... what you like and don't like... we'd be able to improve them much more! Thanks :)

sgd designer	13 months ago: hi there Fuzzyllama, Thanks for your concern. No that's not the case anymore. Large backgrounds have become very popular in the web design community. Technically it's not a problem. The content area is a fixed width. The image is a background image so the user only sees as much as the browser window allows, and can look really cool. Of the course the image needs to be prepared properly so it doesn't take forever to download. you can see some awesome examples of large background sites here: http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/80-large-background-websites/ For example this one looks really nice: http://macallanridge.com/ Take care!

Ecosse Farms Polo contest holder	13 months ago: Number 54 s still my favorite. The colours are great. The page is fresh, simple, clear and easy to navigate. It also has a friendly feel which the other entires lack. The only addition I would like to that design is the arrow off our logo in the right hand corner -instead of the QPA logo. If the arrow could be metallic looking even better. My main criticism of the other entries are they are too standard - what i mean by that is they look like most other websites and as I mentioned above they seem impersonal. Our business is friendly and welcoming. While polo as a sport is slick and glamorous we are trying to get new players started and don't want them to feel intimidated. Its very hard to describe what it is about #54 that makes it have a welcoming feel # 141 I like how the logo is included. I still feel it is a little too busy with lots of different polo images included. Less is more! #78 Too much info included - especially down the bottom. You could comfortably lose the bottom section above the footer and improve this page a lot. I dn't like the grey diagonal stripe background. I think white is fine as it is clean. Designs by SGD - are good but not wow. I think it is becuase of the big photo that is then hidden behind the text window. I understand the feel you were going for butI like to see my photos in their entirety. Hope this feedback helps.

Ecosse Farms Polo contest holder	13 months ago: #154 - much better, I really like this design. Perhaps a different colour than grey on the top banner to give it a fresher feel.

DH Admin DH Admin	13 months ago: Due to a server upgrade today, the site was unavailable for approximately 4 hrs, so an additional 4hrs was added to the contest expiry date. Sorry for any inconvenience.