Summary
This site is more of a landing page than an actual site. The purpose of this page was to give people an easy way to contact us to donate books or find out more about what we are doing.Banner Design
Since the site is just one page, I figured if I got help with a decent banner, I could put together the rest of the site. I created a project on 48HoursLogos asking for help with designing the banner. Here is the initial page I created to help the designers see how simple this site really was. (The original name was TammyBook.com). I was only asking them for something to replace the TammyBook.com banner at the top.
Here are some of the submissions I received.
I like them all and they each have their strengths. However, when I saw the last one with the children, I was hooked. I had thought about a building block to convey the idea that this site is about children. I worked with the designer, and he came up with the next version.
This is closer, but the block didn’t look like the classic building block I was thinking of. I found a picture on Google and uploaded it for him to see what I was thinking.
This was the final contest winner. He added the “lines” in the block and produced this.
Good design to me is like obscenity. I may not be able to describe it, but I know it when I see it. This one just worked for me.
I was “nearly” convinced. I liked the the new site. My only concern was that it may look a little “too polished” and we might lose the personal connection with the visitors. I submitted the two versions in a FeedBack Army project to get some feedback from other people. To my surprise, some people actually preferred the first site, but the majority liked the new site.
Amazon Email
When a visitor fills out the form on the site, we receive an email Using the Amazon SES SMTP Interface.
Technology
- Asp.Net MVC, C#, Razor
- Amazon SES SMTP
