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Only 1 new template? Please don't tell me that Telnic is only going to select 1 of the competition templates - its hard enough trying to sell Telnic as a directory offering to local business people because of the less-than-marketable presentation of the existing templates. Limiting yourself to 1 new option would be sad - if we had several different options to market, we could really start to go places. For my part, I'd love to be able to mock up and offer samples for 201, 194, 181 and 12. Several people I've spoken to would buy space on my sites if they could select from one of the new templates in the competition (the ones I showed were the IDs above). On that note - can we apply a template at a folder level instead of globally at the TLD name-level? |
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that has been asked for many moons ago! but yes, I too hope that will be possible to mix and match (at least for the desktop proxy) With regards to the mobile proxy.... if there are to be any NEW additional mobile templates, please leave the current mobile proxy template in the portfolio untouched. that is, as a "pre-existing" template.[/size] |
Well, there are some very nice designs submitted. The key is that all should allow any color scheme to be used, just like now. That leaves the layout and the style. On layout and style, there are very few choices, but a couple of good ones. I see one that is the winner on layout and style, with a couple of others that should be included in the template offering. There are only about 3 or 4 total that are layout and style appropriate. The rest are just versions of what we already have except for rearrangement or color. |
I'd love to see sections you can Hide or Show, where we can group related records into clusters. Would save lots of space too, only visible when Show is clicked. Perhaps even tabs at top to control the default view. Mark |
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I'd be phenomenally happy (and have 37 confirmed businesses who would list now) if I could deploy the templates I nominated above, with capacity to customise at a folder level (and be able to specify whether I wanted inheritance of that template to be applied from that hierarchy point downwards). I'd also want to be able to elect to hie the 'powered by Telnic' logo as that is very invasive from a presentation perspective. Please Telnic - I would like to begin capitalising on my investment in .tel domains, and any pick-up only serves to further market .tel to the broader/global community.[/size] |
The best to me is???? http://dominiotel.blogspot.com/2011/...s-dominio.html |
I looked at designs submitted and do not understand why all designers want to place a bar with "manage", "logout" and etc. on the very top op the page? It would be more economic to place it at the bottom - as we do not use these functions constantly. Now, then these buttons are at the top they "eats" vertical space of the page. |
Well, if we're stating our choice as the "one" ... After about 100 looks at each one of them, all of which have a great feature or two, the overall "useful for Individual or Business" alike has me coming back time and again to #201. It's the perfect balance of Page and Card, with functions on the Page and the Registrant Information on the Card. The lines, overlaps, etc. - I can definitely see why it's the Highest Rated. Great Job ! :cool: P.S. Maybe use the Icons/Blocks from #189 and you've really got something ! P.P.S. Add Mark's Suggestions for the Hideaway and ... :cool::cool::cool: So many options, so little time ... |
Hi Telrific & Other Forum Members For me it has to be 201 by a 'Country Mile' ! Professional, Classy, Nicely Understated. I can't believe I am saying this! But I actually like the way the logos have been subtly incorporated in to this Contemporary Cutting Edge design (please have the Powered by Tel logo switched off by default) This is the one I've been waiting for! No wonder it's rated so highly. One Suggestion: As well as being able to mix our own Colors, would it also be possible to have some standard Color combos, to choose from as well, for those who have lots of .Tels. Otherwise a Great design which like Telrific, I keep coming back to. |
How important is it to have the Breadcrumbs on display? |
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http://www.marketing-jive.com/2009/1...avigation.html http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009...t-practices-2/ hope that helps[/size] |
Another question: how many of you use two hands when operating your touch/smart phone? (e.g. hold in one hand and scroll with the other or, hold in one hand and scroll with the thumb) |
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It does indeed. Thank you.[/size] |
I didn't have time to submit a design, but working as a designer there are two things I would very much recommend. Telnic needs to make the icons colorless, I would go for white with a black dropshadow or something, because otherwise they lock the users into having to chose colors that goes with the icon colors. The two column layout look much better but does not leave any room for descriptions. So that is something that has to be taken into account. Third and this is something that is very important. The Goto icons should really change the arrow to point up or to the right. Why would it be more effective with another icon, there are a couple of reasons. Go to google and make a search for download icon and look at the images. They all have a arrow pointing down. Take the icon and ask any avarage joe what it means and they will say "download". Ask them if they like to download content they are not familiar with and they will say no. So the goto icon that actually is interpreted as a download icon this will lead to people being less likely to click the icon. The other reason is that we associate "down" with bad stuff and up with positive things. You got expressions all over the place such as, Thumbs up, boost, increase, raise. And for down you have negative associations, such as down the drain, thumb down. This leads to people getting less likley to click themselves forward, since instead of a tempting positive icon, that males you want to click it. They get a negative feeling from the icon. So a simple thing like changing the icon to point right or up would make a positive change. |
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The same thing is with Telnic's logo: it also locks users to some colors. Definitely, there should be an option to remove that logo. Quote: [/size]
A year ago we even had shown Telnic a picture with Goto icons arrows pointed rightwards - and nothing had changed:http://telnic.org/forum/showpost.php...8&postcount=29 :)[/size] |
yeah $$$$ for one of design? no offense to the designers but really $$$$ can do alottt better than any of these entries |
201 is the best overall design IMHO. This statement from another thread shows why: Quote:
The 201 design is one of the best listings for personal or business I've seen on the internet. Better than FaceBook or MySpace or Yellow Pages or Linkedin or Google Local or .... If somebody is going to support .tel it's going to take the above understanding and this design can help 1, 2, and 3 above greatly. If this design were the "one" launched 2 years ago, you would have a significantly greater number of registrations and renewals today. :)[/size] |
Whichever design is picked, please include collapsible sections as found in 194 and allow a default state of hidden or shown to be set per section . Mark |
As we know, ICANN allowed Telnic to have avatars of size not bigger then 78 x 78 pixels. Design #201 has been created for avatars of the size bigger that 78x78 pixels. I think that because of that it does not fit requirements of this competition. If author of this design will resize it, then it will be not the Design #201, which was submitted for competition. After the end of competition usually it is forbidden to submit new designs or to amend already submitted. So, by my opinion, following principles of fair competition the Design #201 should be disqualified. On the picture bellow you can see the avatar of size 78x78 put in this design. http://litvo.webasyst.net/photos/ful...b86382022c8b79 Also we use for avatars images on transparent ground. Here we can see how such image will look at this design (if we will put it on white ground). http://litvo.webasyst.net/photos/ful...3d220edd6d3918 And here we can see how such image will look at this design if we will put it on header’s color. For me personally it looks quite oddly. http://litvo.webasyst.net/photos/ful...1a477b1a20f182 |
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It may need some brushing up for practical reasons, but that certainly sums up it's broader value, and like you said, a better template than any of the above. I see significant demand for .tel from here on out if #201 is implemented ... and the sooner the better ! :)[/size] |
