Florian Schweitzer needed a new wordpress theme design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 63 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
Martin Ehrenhauser
Martin Ehrenhauser is a young and independent Member of the European Parliament from Austria. http://www.ehrenhauser.at
target audience groups:
- his voters
- political bloggers in Austria and Brussels
- other MEPs and their assistants
- journalists in Austria and Brussels
- NGOs
Key design element in the election campaign was a billboard you can find here:
http://www.campaigns2009.eu/werbung…ite_1_.jpg
please don't use exactly this typo and color but there should be a lot of white with bordeaux red and grey elements used for the website as well.
colors:
- bg: white
- bordeaux red, grey
- text: black/grey (maybe some red elements)
key elements on the startpage:
1. switch english/german
(if you use flags, please use austria for german language and UK for english. or mashup the german/austrian and the uk/usa flags...)
2. header
we like the idea of many pics put into a photo collage - be inspired by the header you can find at http://fzh34.w4yserver.at/img/header2.jpg
http://www.ehrenhauser.at/images/me2.jpg
http://www.ehrenhauser.at/images/me1.jpg
and more here:
http://fzh34.w4yserver.at/img/smallpics.zip
(use these and some sample images we can change later)
3. horizontal navigation
Blog, About me, Parliament, Issues, Interactive, Media, Contact
we also need a submenu for some of the points
4. left column: blog
5. right column: sidebar
a) flickr photostream
b) twitter integration
c) tagcloud
d) some headlines of press releases
e) blogroll/links
f) newsletter form
g) search form
6. footer
copyright, imprint
your ideas (maybe sitemap...)
The blog should be optimized for a resultion of at least 1024x768 (not just 800x600).
We need the theme as layered PSD file.