pth4 needed a new wordpress theme design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 30 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
Computer Troubleshooters
Computer Troublshooters provides franchise opportunities for local computer computer technicians. http://tinyurl.com/2um9dc8
Looking to have designed a site template for a local computer repair & managed services business. Template sites will be used by participating franchisees of the world’s largest computer franchisee: Computer Troubleshooters.
The designs will come with a base navigational structure and typical page layouts.
Color: Using the same color scheme and logo as the national site. Use of white background would work with green/orange color palette.
Please reference Official Site for colors
http://us.comptroub.com/html/home
Messaging: Clearly convey this is a computer repair & service business serving the local market but with the larger footprint of a larger brand. Basic messaging can be chosen from the national site.
Look/Feel: clean, polished, 2.0 style site, white or light background.
Navigation: Simple, must contain the following links:
Home
Why Us
Services – (Services will be used as design for deeper pages. Reference the following franchise site that lists the company’s services. Updated look of this page http://ctsny.net/services.htm )
Home Services
Special Offers
Resources
Contact Us
The target audience for these sites are local small businesses and individual consumers looking for professional computer related support, repair and in their local area.
Header:
Phone Number & Call To Action (optional email icon)
Local Business Address
Logo & Tagline
Banner: Some large graphic placement to support a rotating file of images and statements that have a strong call to action. This file will be created later, but needs to be populated with one image and statement for the design.
Social Links: FB, Twitter, RSS
Client Capture Form: Please put a small lead generation form on both the home and interior pages with a strong call to action including the following fields: Name, Email, Phone, and Comments Box.
Footer:
Copy Statement “Local Service – Global Strength”
Local Business Address
Footer Links that include Site Map, Corporate, terms of use, privacy statement
Callouts: Site should have a few callouts but not overly cluttered. Use your creative direction for the following:
Callout: create a graphic for the site that allows for the following statement which will link to form:
“Computer Problems? – Get Professional Service Now”
Your Local Pro: Callout explaining how they are part of the local community and know your business.
Service Callout: A callout that promotes a core service offering like the following example
“Computer Monitoring – Eliminate 80% of your IT Problems Now”
Resources: A Blog (under resources) on the site & we would want to create a place where there will be a feed of the 3-4 most recent posts