I've met with the client. There are aspects of each of the three remaining designs that the clinet likes. The client thought gecku's submission was a little over done, but he really liked the masthead. He thought the design by visual depth was a bit plain. "I am a sinner" submitted the best design overall and is therefore the winner. I will contact both gecku and visual depth via PM and discuss using specific elements of their designs and compensation for that right. Congrats to "I am a sinner".

I just spoke with the client. He is very pleased with the overall quality of the designs. We're meeting on Friday afternoon to discuss them further. We will likely come out of that meeting with a winner. I'll update everyone as soon as I know something.

Eddy

All,

The entries now marked with 5 stars have been submitted to the client for review. As I mentioned before, if your design is 4 stars, I suggest you do not remove your entry just yet as there is a chance the client will want to look at more options.

Thanks again to all who submitted. I will select the winner as soon as I hear back from the client. This may take a couple days so please be patient.

Eddy

Thank you all very much for your submissions. As usual, I'm very pleased with the overall quality of the designs. I have rated all the submissions. Based on this rating, those with 4 stars will continue to be evaluated. Others will be eliminated from the contest. After I have re-evaluated all the 4 star submissions, I will select a few (likely 3-5) to submit to the client. Those that I will submit to the client will be changed to 5 stars. Whichever design the client chooses will be made the contest winner.

I would encourage those 4 star entries who do not make it to the five star round leave your submissions on the site until a winner is declared. There is a chance that the client will not like my choices and will need to see some other designs.

Thanks again to everyone who has submitted an entry.

All,

I'll be leaving in about an hour for Mother's Day activities. If you have an entry that you'd like to see feedback on, you'll need to submit it before I leave. At any rate, we're getting close to the point where any changes I do request you may not have time to implement before the contest ends. I'll check back in an hour to see if there are any new submissions to rate.

Eddy

Why aren't you entering Nadia? You've given some very valid comments. I'm a coder and not a designer so that's why I come here for the design work. My plan was to slice the main graphic and make it a background image in css and then overlay the text in the foreground. Of course to get exact placement, I may have to use tables, but such is life.

All,

I wanted to provide a little more guidance. First, the target resolution is 1024x768 so your design should be a max of around 1000 pixels wide to account for the browser scrollbars. I apologize for not mentioning it sooner (though I wouldn't eliminate a design for that as it could be easily fixed). Second, the client is really prioritizing his search engine placement, so I'd really like to not use graphics for text content. That means that you should try to use standard web fonts anywhere possible.

Thanks
Eddy

Createabit,

I hope you'll enter now that I've agreed to pay the $500 up front before delivery of the psd (or a total of $600 split in two payments).

Eddy