NATS Template Design Contest! $1000 for each winning set of templates! - GoFuckYourself.com

TMM_John · 01-26-2005, 02:35 PM

We're doing another design contest but this one is going to be a bit different.

What we need are some different "skins" for NATS. These will be sets of templates that NATS clients can use for the visual look of their program. Not all program owners want to spend the time and money creating a custom template set and we are the first to admit that our "default" templates are not the most beautiful.

This contest will run like this:

We will take entires in this thread until the end of Feb, 2005. We will pick winners both as we go and after the contest concludes. We may pick one winner and we may pick 20. Once we pick a winning concept we will work with the designer to complete the rest of the required templates (easily done based on the two required for the concept). After all of these templates are complete we will pay the designer the $1000 prize. Again, this is open ended and we may pick 1 winner or many.

Here are the rules for the entries:

1. Every entry must consist of two things:
a. A design of the "join program page" on the outside of the program.
b. A design of the "stats" page on the inside of the program.

2. You should use the respective pages on the NATS demo at http://natsdemo.toomuchmedia.com to know which elements you must include on these pages.

3. Other than the required elements the designs are totally up to you. You can move elements around. Display them as text or images. Make your design simple or fancy. Use radio buttons instead of select boxes, etc. etc. You have total design freedom.

4. The designs should have a "placedholder" for the client's logo to go.

5. This is a reseller interface design. You should not include any of the adminstrative stuff.

6. We would like to see designs which use CSS as much as possible to allow customization of the design.

We would like to see some really creative work on these concepts. You may want to view some of our clients for ideas (tho you should not copy them directly). We have a clients page which is not officially released yet which you can use to view some of them. It is a partial list which we are still putting together. http://www.getnats.com/clientlist.html (if you are a client reading this and you would like to be included on the list please contact me)

We of course may have changes to some things as this develops and there will of course be question to answer so please feel free to post them here.

Manowar · 01-26-2005, 02:38 PM

Great contest

Harmon · 01-26-2005, 02:38 PM

Good stuff

TMM_John · 01-26-2005, 02:39 PM

Also, I almost forgot to add. We will be distributing the info of the designer with the template set(s) they do so that any clients using their template set may contact them for customizations to these sets. (Graphically and what not). This should lead to additional design work to the winning artists from NATS clients. Which is a win-win situation for everyone.

JSA Matt · 01-26-2005, 02:40 PM

Nice contest, can I enter my templates? LOL

TMM_John · 01-26-2005, 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSA Matt

Nice contest, can I enter my templates? LOL

If you make them a bit more generic, sure, why not?

BluMedia · 01-26-2005, 02:45 PM

Very cool. I think it would also be cool if webmasters could change the skin in the stats area by their own preference. You could have a couple of skins so webmasters could change it to their liking.

Mark

NaughtyINC · 01-26-2005, 02:46 PM

very cool... cant wait to see some of these

MattO · 01-26-2005, 02:47 PM

Very nice contest

TMM_John · 01-26-2005, 02:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BluMedia

Very cool. I think it would also be cool if webmasters could change the skin in the stats area by their own preference. You could have a couple of skins so webmasters could change it to their liking.

Mark

These templates will of course be editable like the templates we provide now. They are just to give everyone several starting points to choose from or some nice templates to use without editting them should they want to.

EVERYTHING in NATS visually is editable by the client. You can make NATS look however you want as you can see by viewing a few of our clients and seeing how different their programs look.

Sorry for the confusion on that.

TMM_John · 01-26-2005, 04:32 PM

*bump bump*

bigdog · 01-26-2005, 04:51 PM

this is the best contest i have seen in a while

BluMedia · 01-26-2005, 06:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PBucksJohn

These templates will of course be editable like the templates we provide now. They are just to give everyone several starting points to choose from or some nice templates to use without editting them should they want to.

EVERYTHING in NATS visually is editable by the client. You can make NATS look however you want as you can see by viewing a few of our clients and seeing how different their programs look.

Sorry for the confusion on that.

That is awesome John. Can webmasters auto disable the system do it does not email them when they make a sale?

Mark

charlieb · 01-26-2005, 06:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigdog

this is the best contest i have seen in a while

Thank you

Karupted Charles · 01-26-2005, 07:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BluMedia

That is awesome John. Can webmasters auto disable the system do it does not email them when they make a sale?

Mark

Yes you can.

PushButton · 01-26-2005, 07:14 PM

bump .. maybe ill give it a try ... i like joining contests anyway

Platinumpimp · 01-26-2005, 07:17 PM

I just love the NATS green layout. Simple but to the point. No eye candy needed for statistics

AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE · 01-26-2005, 07:23 PM

affiliate program design 1500-5000.

contest prize 1k.

Gonna sit this one out, there is a high percentage that the clients contact me at the end of day anyways to design a template

FreshChecks · 01-26-2005, 08:31 PM

This is nice contest.

I could use a more simple template with smaller text. looks neater. I just like it.

Dynamix · 01-26-2005, 08:42 PM

hrm. anyone know the URL's of the exact pages to design? I don't see a "join" page at the link provided..

tenderobject · 01-27-2005, 10:20 AM

nice contest!

by the way, can you direct us to "join program page" and "stats page" so we have an idea. i can't see it.

Rui · 01-27-2005, 10:26 AM

Amazing contest

/me bookmarks this thread ;D

AdultRMX · 01-27-2005, 10:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tenderobject

nice contest!

by the way, can you direct us to "join program page" and "stats page" so we have an idea. i can't see it.

yeah we'd love to see those pages

pls post it here..

Nathan · 01-27-2005, 10:52 AM

Signup Page:
http://natsdemo.toomuchmedia.com/signup.php

Stats Page: (login first)
http://natsdemo.toomuchmedia.com/stats.php

AdultRMX · 01-27-2005, 12:55 PM

thanks

Rui · 01-27-2005, 01:30 PM

Nathan - in order to make real proper skins shouldn't you guys make available the base templates?

Nathan · 01-27-2005, 01:37 PM

Rui,

we did not do this specifically because we do not want it based on the templates that much. We need the same ELEMENTS on the pages, but you can make them look however you want, as long as they can do what the real ones do.

We also do not expect you guys to create actual smarty templates, just the HTML, we will make them dynamic.

Its probably best for the stats page to check the Admin Stats also (http://natsdemo.toomuchmedia.com/admin_stats.php) so you see what it would kinda look like with rows of data in it.

You can of course also check any other NATS program to see how they made them look to get some ideas and the like.

justsexxx · 01-27-2005, 01:41 PM

Great idea, because it's hard to find designers who can design this...(personal experience)

Rui · 01-28-2005, 11:52 AM

Nathan - basicly, what somebody needs to do in order to make the skins is to look at those 2 locations you mentioned and rip the form info and just make one from scratch using the same forms and that includes the links is that it?

AdultRMX · 01-30-2005, 09:38 AM

bump bump bump

Nathan · 01-30-2005, 09:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rui

Nathan - basicly, what somebody needs to do in order to make the skins is to look at those 2 locations you mentioned and rip the form info and just make one from scratch using the same forms and that includes the links is that it?

Yes, thats exactly it.

Like John said, once you are picked as a winner you need to create the other pages too, but thats not a lot of work once you have the base design done. Those 2 pages we ask you to do now are just sample templates we feel are good pages to test the design with. If those look good, all others will look good too.

sexdwarf · 01-30-2005, 10:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nathan

Like John said, once you are picked as a winner you need to create the other pages too, but thats not a lot of work once you have the base design done.

out of curiousity, how many pages would it be in total (if chosen), since i am assuming that would be part of the $1k...

Rui · 01-30-2005, 10:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sexdwarf

out of curiousity, how many pages would it be in total (if chosen), since i am assuming that would be part of the $1k...

good and very important question...

sexdwarf · 01-30-2005, 10:53 AM

bump tha bump

Nathan · 01-31-2005, 04:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sexdwarf

out of curiousity, how many pages would it be in total (if chosen), since i am assuming that would be part of the $1k...

More than 10 should not be needed. The page structure is very similar through the site, unless ofcourse you want to make it totally different. Most work on the other templates really is the graphics if you use graphical headers and such things.

Like we said, we do not even require you to do the smarty coding, we do that.

Rui · 01-31-2005, 08:59 AM

How many entrys did you guys have so far? Any approved skin?

candyflip · 01-31-2005, 09:09 AM

Hmmm...when does this end?

I've got an some old affiliate program designs I was working on at one point for learning purposes and still have them sitting around here somewhere.

Tanker · 01-31-2005, 09:22 AM

I can not wait to see what you guys end up with. It should be very good

PushButton · 02-01-2005, 10:02 PM

Please view my Template Entry

Hope I made it correct

basschick · 02-03-2005, 02:52 AM

damn, pushbutton - do you have a portfolio and some prices online somewhere?

Major (Tom) · 02-03-2005, 03:36 AM

Great news!

Duke

Nick416 · 02-03-2005, 04:01 AM

nice contest!

chronic avenger · 02-03-2005, 04:13 AM

nice... maybe I should do this contest.

Dynamix · 02-03-2005, 04:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PushButton

Please view my Template Entry

Hope I made it correct

Classy lookin

Touch up the "Fresh CASH" logo a tad bit and I'd say we have a winner. Nice work.

Dynamix · 02-03-2005, 04:39 AM

Gottis · 02-03-2005, 06:43 AM

Sleazy isn't the contest judge, right?

tenderobject · 02-03-2005, 07:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jon Adolfsson

Sleazy isn't the contest judge, right?

hahahaha!

lets try on this contest jon hope we can grab something here.

pornpf69 · 02-03-2005, 07:39 AM

this is an awesome contest...pherhaps I will give it a try....(if only I was a designer...)

mudsaliva · 02-03-2005, 09:04 AM

goodluck to everyone

I'd love to join too, this should be my first one joining a contest,
good luck to me too

Rui · 02-03-2005, 09:12 AM

Nice entries PushButton & Dynamix, I think I will also make an entry.. eh

01-26-2005, 02:35 PM	#1
TMM_John Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 6,660	NATS Template Design Contest! $1000 for each winning set of templates! We're doing another design contest but this one is going to be a bit different. What we need are some different "skins" for NATS. These will be sets of templates that NATS clients can use for the visual look of their program. Not all program owners want to spend the time and money creating a custom template set and we are the first to admit that our "default" templates are not the most beautiful. This contest will run like this: We will take entires in this thread until the end of Feb, 2005. We will pick winners both as we go and after the contest concludes. We may pick one winner and we may pick 20. Once we pick a winning concept we will work with the designer to complete the rest of the required templates (easily done based on the two required for the concept). After all of these templates are complete we will pay the designer the $1000 prize. Again, this is open ended and we may pick 1 winner or many. Here are the rules for the entries: 1. Every entry must consist of two things: a. A design of the "join program page" on the outside of the program. b. A design of the "stats" page on the inside of the program. 2. You should use the respective pages on the NATS demo at http://natsdemo.toomuchmedia.com to know which elements you must include on these pages. 3. Other than the required elements the designs are totally up to you. You can move elements around. Display them as text or images. Make your design simple or fancy. Use radio buttons instead of select boxes, etc. etc. You have total design freedom. 4. The designs should have a "placedholder" for the client's logo to go. 5. This is a reseller interface design. You should not include any of the adminstrative stuff. 6. We would like to see designs which use CSS as much as possible to allow customization of the design. We would like to see some really creative work on these concepts. You may want to view some of our clients for ideas (tho you should not copy them directly). We have a clients page which is not officially released yet which you can use to view some of them. It is a partial list which we are still putting together. http://www.getnats.com/clientlist.html (if you are a client reading this and you would like to be included on the list please contact me) We of course may have changes to some things as this develops and there will of course be question to answer so please feel free to post them here. __________________ Skype: JohnA1078 Too Much Media - Makers of the Industry's Leading Payite Management Platform, NATS!

01-26-2005, 02:38 PM	#3
Harmon ( ͡ʘ╭͜ʖ╮͡ʘ) Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 20,010	Good stuff __________________ [email protected]

01-26-2005, 02:39 PM	#4
TMM_John Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 6,660	Also, I almost forgot to add. We will be distributing the info of the designer with the template set(s) they do so that any clients using their template set may contact them for customizations to these sets. (Graphically and what not). This should lead to additional design work to the winning artists from NATS clients. Which is a win-win situation for everyone. __________________ Skype: JohnA1078 Too Much Media - Makers of the Industry's Leading Payite Management Platform, NATS!

01-26-2005, 02:45 PM	#7
BluMedia Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Colorado Posts: 3,973	Very cool. I think it would also be cool if webmasters could change the skin in the stats area by their own preference. You could have a couple of skins so webmasters could change it to their liking. Mark __________________ IntenseCash - If you can't convert us then you might want to look for a new job . BrokeStraightBoys.com converting 1:124 stats counted by Nats

01-26-2005, 02:46 PM	#8
NaughtyINC Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Toronto Posts: 1,288	very cool... cant wait to see some of these __________________ meh

01-26-2005, 02:38 PM	#2
Manowar jellyfish Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 71,528	Great contest

01-26-2005, 02:40 PM	#5
JSA Matt So Fucking Banned Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 5,464	Nice contest, can I enter my templates? LOL

01-26-2005, 02:47 PM	#9
MattO The O is for Oohhh Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: AUSTIN TEJAS Posts: 10,861	Very nice contest

01-26-2005, 04:32 PM	#11
TMM_John Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 6,660	bump bump __________________ Skype: JohnA1078 Too Much Media - Makers of the Industry's Leading Payite Management Platform, NATS!

01-26-2005, 04:51 PM	#12
bigdog Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 6,964	this is the best contest i have seen in a while

01-26-2005, 07:14 PM	#16
PushButton Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Designer Posts: 247	bump .. maybe ill give it a try ... i like joining contests anyway __________________ Web Designer ICQ : 13376643

01-26-2005, 07:17 PM	#17
Platinumpimp Logos and such. Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Kingdom of the Netherlands Posts: 10,214	I just love the NATS green layout. Simple but to the point. No eye candy needed for statistics __________________ I design logo's.

01-26-2005, 07:23 PM	#18
AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE best designer on GFY Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IALIEN.COM - High Definition Video and Photographic Productions -ICQ 78943384 Posts: 30,307	affiliate program design 1500-5000. contest prize 1k. Gonna sit this one out, there is a high percentage that the clients contact me at the end of day anyways to design a template __________________ NAKED HOSTING FTW!11 I'm On The INSANE PLAN $9.95/mo! \| The Alien Blog Adult News Worth Reading Updated Daily \| Content For Sale! 641 PICS 216 MINUTES OF VIDEO $350.00 \|ICQ: 78943384 \|

01-26-2005, 08:31 PM	#19
FreshChecks Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 210	This is nice contest. I could use a more simple template with smaller text. looks neater. I just like it. __________________ SIG TOO BIG! Maximum 120x60 button and no more than 3 text lines of DEFAULT SIZE and COLOR. Unless your sig is for a GFY top banner sponsor, you may use a 624x80 instead of a 120x60. Let me repeat... A 120 x 60 button and no more that 3 lines of DEFAULT SIZE AND COLOR text.

01-26-2005, 08:42 PM	#20
Dynamix G F Y not Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: MN Posts: 2,910	hrm. anyone know the URL's of the exact pages to design? I don't see a "join" page at the link provided.. __________________ TGPFactory Full TGP Design & Installation Services ICQ 250 142 484 · AIM TGPDynamix · Email: patrick (at) tgpfactory (dot) com See who I am at AdultWhosWho.com!

01-27-2005, 10:20 AM	#21
tenderobject Need Designs? 312352846 Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere Posts: 11,688	nice contest! by the way, can you direct us to "join program page" and "stats page" so we have an idea. i can't see it. __________________ NEED DESIGNS?!?

01-27-2005, 10:26 AM	#22
Rui web Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: On icq: 85-483-060 Posts: 9,533	Amazing contest /me bookmarks this thread ;D

01-27-2005, 10:52 AM	#24
Nathan Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,108	Signup Page: http://natsdemo.toomuchmedia.com/signup.php Stats Page: (login first) http://natsdemo.toomuchmedia.com/stats.php __________________ "Think about it a little more and you'll agree with me, because you're smart and I'm right." - Charlie Munger

01-27-2005, 12:55 PM	#25
AdultRMX So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Manila, Philippines Posts: 1,021	thanks

01-27-2005, 01:30 PM	#26
Rui web Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: On icq: 85-483-060 Posts: 9,533	Nathan - in order to make real proper skins shouldn't you guys make available the base templates?

01-27-2005, 01:37 PM	#27
Nathan Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,108	Rui, we did not do this specifically because we do not want it based on the templates that much. We need the same ELEMENTS on the pages, but you can make them look however you want, as long as they can do what the real ones do. We also do not expect you guys to create actual smarty templates, just the HTML, we will make them dynamic. Its probably best for the stats page to check the Admin Stats also (http://natsdemo.toomuchmedia.com/admin_stats.php) so you see what it would kinda look like with rows of data in it. You can of course also check any other NATS program to see how they made them look to get some ideas and the like. __________________ "Think about it a little more and you'll agree with me, because you're smart and I'm right." - Charlie Munger

01-27-2005, 01:41 PM	#28
justsexxx Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 13,723	Great idea, because it's hard to find designers who can design this...(personal experience) __________________ Questions? ICQ: 125184542

01-28-2005, 11:52 AM	#29
Rui web Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: On icq: 85-483-060 Posts: 9,533	Nathan - basicly, what somebody needs to do in order to make the skins is to look at those 2 locations you mentioned and rip the form info and just make one from scratch using the same forms and that includes the links is that it?

01-30-2005, 09:38 AM	#30
AdultRMX So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Manila, Philippines Posts: 1,021	bump bump bump

01-30-2005, 10:53 AM	#34
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01-31-2005, 08:59 AM	#36
Rui web Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: On icq: 85-483-060 Posts: 9,533	How many entrys did you guys have so far? Any approved skin?

01-31-2005, 09:09 AM	#37
candyflip Carpe Visio Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: New York Posts: 43,064	Hmmm...when does this end? I've got an some old affiliate program designs I was working on at one point for learning purposes and still have them sitting around here somewhere. __________________ Spend you some brain. Email Me

01-31-2005, 09:22 AM	#38
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02-01-2005, 10:02 PM	#39
PushButton Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Designer Posts: 247	Please view my Template Entry Hope I made it correct __________________ Web Designer ICQ : 13376643 Last edited by PushButton; 02-01-2005 at 10:04 PM..

02-03-2005, 02:52 AM	#40
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02-03-2005, 03:36 AM	#41
Major (Tom) Boomer Woffen Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Null Posts: 30,642	Great news! Duke __________________ My mother said, to get things done You'd better not mess with Major Tom

02-03-2005, 04:01 AM	#42
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02-03-2005, 04:13 AM	#43
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02-03-2005, 04:39 AM	#45
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02-03-2005, 06:43 AM	#46
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