***Popular WEB TV SHOW NEEDS A NEW BLOG DESIGN*** Detailed Brief, Active Feedback
a landing page (uncoded) project by avenue81

Creative brief

Business Name

Marketing Show

What do you do?

The Marketing Show is a weekly show about Marketing.

List the size requirement(s) for your landing page

Please see our wireframe here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/138951/MShow_99Designs-...

What is your industry?

Marketing and Small Business

Describe the target audience for your landing page

Guys between 30 and 45 years old.

What 3 things would you like to communicate to your audience through your landing page?

Authority
Authority
Authority

How is your company different from your competitors?

We're looking for you to create the main page of our blog.

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Here's a wireframe for what we're talking about: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/138951/MShow_99Designs-...
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Here's the logo for The Marketing Show: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/138951/NEWmarketingShow... (but feel free to use another font if you want)

This should look VERY authorotative

Top Header To Be Like: http://screencast.com/t/AmYlIp708

Links In The Header: Home | About | Free Marketing Tools | Free Updates | List Building

Sidebar width: 277
Content area width: 645

First thing on the top of the sidebar: http://screencast.com/t/vYsyuJQ9K4ch
Second thing on the sidebar: http://screencast.com/t/njwmgePbIo
Third thing on the sidebar: http://screencast.com/t/VwMfL57uA (banner ad)
Fourth thing on the sidebar: http://screencast.com/t/MpkMW3HkpQYk
Fifth thing on the sidebar: http://screencast.com/t/G0iLw4UuMJP

We're looking for the blog home page to look like this:

http://themeforest.net/item/fast-blog/full_scre...

(there should be only three main colors on the site: white, black, and either green OR blue (but not both)). LOTS of white space.

With the various types of content types (as can be seen here: http://themeforest.net/item/fast-blog/full_scre...):
article
image
link
audio
video
qoute
Each blog post on the home page should have social media sharing buttons associated with it: http://screencast.com/t/hkjjSPTLwIXh

Each individual blog post represented on the home page should KIND of look like this:

http://screencast.com/t/Z3YnB6lcraE8

Examples of sites we like (with exceptionally CLEAN design)
http://QuickSprout.com
http://socialtriggers.com/
http://www.CopyBlogger.com
http://PassivePanda.com
http://conversionxl.com/

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Here's a wireframe for what we're talking about: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/138951/MShow_99Designs-...
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What landing page design styles do you like?

http://QuickSprout.com
http://socialtriggers.com/
http://www.CopyBlogger.com
http://PassivePanda.com
http://conversionxl.com/

What colors do you want to see in your landing page?

(there should be only three main colors on the site: white, black, and either green OR blue (but not both)). LOTS of white space.

We want it to have a light tone.

What colors do you NOT want to see in your landing page?

not too many dark colors. And not a lot of red (or ANY red). Unless you think red should be there.

What adjectives should best describe your landing page?

Authority

What content must be included in the landing page?

None.

Content types are . . . .

--article
--image
--link
--audio
--video
--qoute

Do you have additional info or links you'd like to share?

We're looking for you to create the main page of our blog.

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Here's a wireframe for what we're talking about: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/138951/MShow_99Designs-...
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Here's the logo for The Marketing Show: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/138951/NEWmarketingShow... (but feel free to use another font if you want)

This should look VERY authorotative

Top Header To Be Like: http://screencast.com/t/AmYlIp708

Links In The Header: Home | About | Free Marketing Tools | Free Updates | List Building

Sidebar width: 277
Content area width: 645

First thing on the top of the sidebar: http://screencast.com/t/vYsyuJQ9K4ch
Second thing on the sidebar: http://screencast.com/t/njwmgePbIo
Third thing on the sidebar: http://screencast.com/t/VwMfL57uA (banner ad)
Fourth thing on the sidebar: http://screencast.com/t/MpkMW3HkpQYk
Fifth thing on the sidebar: http://screencast.com/t/G0iLw4UuMJP

We're looking for the blog home page to look like this:

http://themeforest.net/item/fast-blog/full_scre...

(there should be only three main colors on the site: white, black, and either green OR blue (but not both)). LOTS of white space.

With the various types of content types (as can be seen here: http://themeforest.net/item/fast-blog/full_scre...):
article
image
link
audio
video
qoute
Each blog post on the home page should have social media sharing buttons associated with it: http://screencast.com/t/hkjjSPTLwIXh

Each individual blog post represented on the home page should KIND of look like this:

http://screencast.com/t/Z3YnB6lcraE8

Examples of sites we like (with exceptionally CLEAN design)
http://QuickSprout.com
http://socialtriggers.com/
http://www.CopyBlogger.com
http://PassivePanda.com
http://conversionxl.com/

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Here's a wireframe for what we're talking about: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/138951/MShow_99Designs-...
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