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Website designer wanted - Free arcade in exchange for your skills!
Turnarcades:
Right, it's like this....
I set up Turnarcades about 4 years ago and we are currently doing fairly well with a regular order schedule and good feedback from our customers. Around this time last year I finally found time to throw together a brief, but fairly informative website to increase our advertising range and put in writing and pictures what I found myself repeating in countless e-mails. However, the guys in this forum gave mixed opinions and I had limited funds so I decided to leave it 'as is' with the intention of completing or re-doing it myself at a later date. Turns out the half-site was enough to generate plenty more business on it's own and 12 months on I've not really touched it.
The time has come for an overhaul and although we are very busy, our profit margin is still slim and as I'm a new homeowner funds are now tight and will be for some time. I have a fairly precise idea of what I want from the site and how I want it to look, but I simply don't have the time or the skill to put it together in a manageable and professional way. So what I'm proposing is basically this:
* Roughly 10 page website, with a 'dark' feel to it, simplistic layout and some arcade theming
* Some logo work, photo-shopping of existing artwork/photos to match the theming
* An 'instant quoting system' - something like a checkout with options, but not a checkout system, just a price guide
* A manageable layout that can be easily updated by me (simple text and picture editing)
* Better tags, cleaner coding and faster page loading
I would like to offer a 'trade swap' to someone in exchange for creating this vision for me. Basically, I am offering a slimline 'Mini' or 'Bar-Top' cabinet as payment for designing and coding our website. These machines are usually priced between roughly £500 and £650 if ordered directly from us, so I would be looking at having a site designed with roughly this level of work put into it. I know a few people PM'd me in the past with offers of their services so this request is open to all as long as you are fine with the 'payment'. You can choose which design you would like from these two and we will customise it within our regular limits for you too (your choice of button colours, marquee design and control layout up to the regular 2 player 'fighting' layout). You would be getting something like one of these two:
Ideally I would like to avoid PM's and would prefer it if you could post any interest or ideas here. To give me a brief example of what you are capable of and what you propose, give me a brief description then (if you can), take the HTML from the existing website pages and knock something together to post here in this thread. This will give me a chance to respond publicly so anyone working on a design can modify it based on what I say I prefer.
Craig @ Turnarcades
Blanka:
I think you should start with getting finished cabs into a photo studio and get some good example shots. The kitchen-look and mobile-phone-megapixels do not add up to the idea that it is business.
surface tension:
Blanka's right on this one. The photography is very important. It doesn't have to be expensive though. Beg borrow and steal. Be creative.
Arrange to take your systems to friend's houses where there are locations that offer up more than your own place. Be prepared to supply lots of beer though.
If you have a friend with a decent SLR too, this is a real bonus.
Studio shots are also a good idea, but again, there are ways of doing this on a budget. Google it and see. You'll learn lots more on the way too.
HaRuMaN:
Yay.
1997 called, they want their website back. ;D
Blanka:
And when photographing, take a white door or a big black, grey or white sheet of cardboard with you. Use it to control the reflections. It's not nice to see the photographer, his lovely assistant or a pile of crap mirroring in the bezel glass. And try to stay neutral on the lens. 50mm lens equivalent is good, 85 is even better.
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