James
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I'm going to be creating a website for a friend who is starting up a business holding art and crafts activity days for toddlers and she wants a website.
I CBA to write one from scratch as I dont really have the time so I'm going to use a template.
What do people think of this:
http://images.p7d6.arixmedia.com/pr/AX0400CY.jpg
I think it needs to look smart and professional but also have a fun arty kind of feel to it.
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Rus
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theres good points there and you should go with it. although i'd get rid of that stupid flower, silly clouds and ott rainbow. as they all take up too much space. keep the rainbow there, just make it less wavey and push all the banner stuff(sky/grass) up. but i've always been a fan of these templates. as in the way the text is displayed. very open canvas.
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M4tt_Envoy
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looks good, where do you find web templates?
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James
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Well thats a premium one that costs money, its only £13 for all HTML/CSS, PSD image files etc but it means you don't have to write "This is a template from blah blah blah" at the bottom of every page.
I use this site.
http://www.freewebtemplates.com/
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AndyKent
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I'd go for something less stylish, more child-like to reflect it being for much younger kids.
That one looks a bit gay TBH. Can quite imagine greenpeace having a website like that.
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James
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quote:
Originally posted by aPk
I'd go for something less stylish, more child-like to reflect it being for much younger kids.
That one looks a bit gay TBH. Can quite imagine greenpeace having a website like that.
Yeah I thought that, but then I thought it would be the parents looking at it rather than the children so wanted it to look quite smart?
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AndyKent
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Yes and no, a parent would be looking at it for the kid, so kiddy stuff would be important rather than design I'd think.....
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drax
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you cant be arsed to sit down for a few hours and code up a website design?
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James
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quote:
Originally posted by drax
you cant be arsed to sit down for a few hours and code up a website design?
Nope, I write software all day long and I cant be arsed to do it in my spare time. Plus it would take more than a few hours to come up with something like that website.
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drax
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If you get any sites by the way that you dont feel like doing, or are too large for you to take on, id be happy to have a look if you send them my way and see If i can help them out instead.
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Cosmo
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quote:
Originally posted by drax
If you get any sites by the way that you dont feel like doing, or are too large for you to take on, id be happy to have a look if you send them my way and see If i can help them out instead.
Im sure the 'help you out' price James is charging is probably 100x less than you would though.
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James
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
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Originally posted by drax
If you get any sites by the way that you dont feel like doing, or are too large for you to take on, id be happy to have a look if you send them my way and see If i can help them out instead.
Im sure the 'help you out' price James is charging is probably 100x less than you would though.
I'm charging £0, beat that 
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drax
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Ill actually do a bespoke original website design, its what I do for a living.
And I said any business he doesn't want...
Its not like I said give me all of your business.
I do what i do for prices, because people will pay for quality work which has had thought put into it for them, when they request it.
I'm not saying the things you do James wouldn't be quality work, but you are a software developer aren't you?
Secondly this is what I do day in day out, 365 days of the year, I have to pump out up to 8+ more new websites a week where I work, and work on up to 15 a day.
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James
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I am indeed a software developer, I can do a decent bespoke site if I can be arsed, I do web stuff at work sometimes. I just cant be arsed doing private stuff anymore. It doesnt really interest me anymore, i'm only doing this because its my sister, any further work I will send your way 
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drax
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There are some absolutely mint salaries kicking about for your line of work, kinda makes me regret leaving my IT practitioners course, but I never got into software coding, preferred the arty and web developing / coding milarky. 0
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Paul_J
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haha I'm the opposite, it's all about the code. I could never be bothered with the arty stuff...
Although these days the line's are blurring with software design.
New .Net Framework, contains things such as Windows Presentation Foundation - where you have a much more web style approach to making the user interface.
Previously most software looks similar, your typical window's style controls, but the future could be looking at completely original designs.
That's why I think graphic designers / art background will become more and more important in software development.
As a result the current piece of software I'm working on will contain many features of this, I aim to make the software's GUI completely unlike normal windows applications, giving user friendly interesting ways to control and interact with the data / controls.
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AndyKent
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Nicely copied and pasted from the client spec 
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