Men.com Designs
 

I know we kid around a lot about it, but for the record I do gladly welcome and invite you guys that have a different vision of how it should look to send me what you think would look better.

If we like what we see and implement it nice $ and a continuing relationship on other domains upcoming.

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[email protected]

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i still think the design i did for the contest owns them all.

but hey thats just me.

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hm...but didn't you run a contest for it few months ago....? ;-))

It received some very nice entries...

BTW if anyone has the url to that thread, please post it here, I would like to take a closer look at some of these designer work

KRL,

You should shoot an email over to [email protected] :thumbsup

You'll get a much better design from them than you would waiting for some of the amateur designers to give you something in a contest.

Just a thought.

Regards,

Lee

lol

http://unknownorigin.com/images/krl1.jpg

http://unknownorigin.com/images/krl2.jpg

Kevin,

We work with one of the brighest CSS developers in the industry, his work is comparable to Eric Meyer and Douglas Bowman (of wired.com and blogger.com fame). I truly feel your site could benefit from someone with a strong knowledge of usability, standards, and cross-broswer compatibility issues. If you'd like to discuss the matter, and see some example works, please post you contact info here.

Please note, this is not a for-proit referral, just something I think you could greatly benefit from.

If i had a domain like men.com i would make it more upmarket for a gq, esquire style crowd rather than your ordinary american male...

they spend $$$ and usually are busy (eg. business men)... plus you can sell products like aveda, nivea and other toilette/skin care products...

one thing i see missing on the page is gadgets... guys like to see the latest pda or cell phone so they can show it off in the next boardroom meeting...

KRL. a friend of mine does excellent mainstream work.

http://www.darkhousemedia.com

some of his projects he has done

i can put you in touch with him if you want

Can you post a link.

I'm starting to send work to the guys who were in that last contest.

i took a shot at it KRL

http://www.fletchxxx.com/images/mendotcom.gif

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I don't think he would be suitable for ordinary static mainstream projects, but his Flash work kicks ass!

How much is his general rate for a Flash project? If you know off the top of your head...

already did, see my reply after the one you quoted :P

i also had a 3rd design that was a little more simple...

http://unknownorigin.com/images/krl3.jpg

Let me guess... Jakob Nielsen? :1orglaugh

get in contact with www.envisionext.com or something and have it done professional like the domain deserves :2 cents:

Good guess, but no, Jacob's theories are a bit strict. He did produce one of the most popular, if not the most popular csszengarden.com entries though.

That is a site that we use a lot in the office here :2 cents:

he can do total mainstream too, but i would have to ask him, newyorkfries.com that project they paid him $10k, hes working on another project for $40k right know but i think flash is involved in that one. i would need to know what you need done. each project is different.

just say hes doing good for a young kid living at home :)

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Now that is a true piece of art Fletch!

Yeah, I was just joking around.

Do you mind giving out a name, or dropping a hint?

The curiosity is killing me.

sorry man but your designs are worse than the current men.com design

Also guys we're paying 20% agency fees if you bring in advertisers, which is 5% above the industry standard.

fletch kills it.

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whats the rates like, how much traffic per day would the links get?

http://men.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=45

I saved all the links from the contest by the way.

a project so big with so much potential... you gotta go with the best:

www.2advanced.com :thumbsup

Holy fuckers. That is FLASH FLASH FLASH!

Dayummmmm!

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those guys are gods, they wont touch adult =\

they are the best... wont touch adult.. but men.com is not adult.. but they are very expensive... very very very expensive.....

give you an example:

my friends spa: quoted about $30k
my friends online car parts: quoted about $60k

worth every dime :thumbsup

I really like the newyorkfries.com design. You're friend is truly talented :thumbsup

I personally like my design the best ;)

the content area is a little weak, but you could get some appealing adspace where it says "the bedroom: diveristy is key" for your personals and such.

http://www.dreamache.com/mencom/newshowhmmthumb.gif
http://www.dreamache.com/mencom/newshow11.gif

http://www.dreamache.com/mencom/newshow11thumb.gif
http://www.dreamache.com/mencom/newshow1.gif

http://www.dreamache.com/mencom/newshow1thumb.gif
http://www.dreamache.com/mencom/newshow.gif

http://www.dreamache.com/mencom/newshow111thumb.gif
http://www.dreamache.com/mencom/newshow111.gif

and the navigation would work as such: www.dreamache.com/mencom/html

regardless of how you choose to design/redesign the site. it's very important that you hire a designer that is capable of structuring the site in xhtml / css. I've done this with a couple sites so far: www.healthygo.com if you view the source you will see it is structered without tables, and the coding is very minimal.

i like mine because it's very clean yet appealing and would be quick to load - oh and because i designed it :)

also - if you decide to redesign your site, be SURE to restructure it in such a way that you can easily connect all of your partnership sites together in one central easy to access location. preferably it'd be nice if each of your partnership co-branded sites were designed under the same flow.

Looks really good, except for the gay-looking guy at the top.

Glad you dig it. :Graucho

men.com is 'supposed' to be a portal. Portals should be fast loading with minimal flash (or none), and your talking about 2advanced? :1orglaugh moron

That's neat. I'm hesitant to go all flash though.

hey dumbass.. they don't just do flash.... look at some of their samples :321GFY

Flash is useless (or as Jakob Nielson says... 99% useless).

It's only good for intros or brief presentations.

- the contest was only for a header.... everything below it was what was on men.com at the current time.