Re: Winning design selected

On Sep 4, 2016 11:26 AM, "Ian Clarke" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Based on everyone's feedback, I have selected the winning design:
> https://99designs.com/web-design/contests/reimagine-
freenet-website-branding-647851/entries/114

Great! I'm happy with this one.

> The designer will now need feedback as she works to create a final set of
> Photoshop files, which will include both the landing page, and a "detail"
page
> which will serve as a template for other pages on the site.
> After that, I have identified a number of coders who can take these files,
> convert to HTML, and then publish them on Github using
https://jekyllrb.com/.

I want to reiterate that I don't think we should spend any money on
translating from photoshop to html, unless it's a *very* small amount.  The
~$200 you've mentioned before is about the highest price where I think
"well maybe it's worth it to have somebody else do this". This is a common
skill, and I am personally willing to volunteer in this regard. At worst we
could pay somebody later if volunteers can't get it done satisfactorily. (I
don't believe a delay like that would be damaging)

Unlike developing the actual design, we can easily evaluate whether us
volunteers have adequately converted the photoshop to html+jekyll. We paid
designers for their aesthetic sense, but with this conversion the community
has all of the skills required to both execute this and evaluate this.

> Note that the text of the site will all be editable afterwards, and so it
is not
> really important for the designer to worry about that.  The designer is
more
> concerned with visual elements, iconography, etc.
> To make it easier to provide feedback to the designer, I have created a
page
> using Redpen, where people can click and comment on parts of the design:
> https://redpen.io/pk616b4782ce9e0098
> We'll need to get this feedback to the designer quickly so she can
incorporate
> it.
> Ian.
> Ian Clarke
> Founder, The Freenet Project
> Email: [email protected]
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