Humane education web site banner (contest, of sorts) request for help

[digiweb]

Create a banner for a humane organization web site.

The site:
http://www.therapuppy.com

Thera-puppy's mission:
Providing education and information and sharing the joy of animal companionship through programs, classes and visitations.

What does that mean?
The Humane Society (http://hsus.org) certified Katherine to bring animals to the sick and to teach kids about being humane to animals.

My volunteer mission:
The site has no exposure. Fix that.
The site is hard for a non-techie to update. Fix that.
The site needs a new design: Fix that.


Tools
Write the site using ASP.Net community start kit "club web site," as seen here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/ex...arterkit/#club

An image of which is here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/im...nouncement.gif

Even if you don't know anything about .net, download the kit, look at the default.aspx, clubsite.css files and poster.jpg to get everything you need. If you want to see it run without .net, open default.aspx, rename it to default.htm and rip out the stuff that looks like code.

My problem:

I don't know anything about art. My brain is like a Volvo (Boxy, but Good). I need a banner for this site.

poster.jpg is the yellow background, the grass and the soccer ball. I need to turn it into something appropriate for the thera-puppy.com web site.

Thera-puppy already has a logo (http://www.therapuppy.com/images/therapuppytitle3.jpg) ... I think it's ok to use it or ditch it, as they know they're getting new everything.

Your challenge:
Create a therapuppy.com banner

Your reward:
I'm going to promote the heck out of this site. I'm creating a bunch of animal-related sites, some non-profit, some commercial. For instance, I just bought animalneighborhood.com. These sites will receive heavy-duty SEO/SEM treatment.

Your reward is complete credit and a prominent link. If you come to New Hampshire I can also arrange for you to get puppy licks and wagging tails.


Conditions:
This effort is completely volunteer.

Questions
Ask away! And thank you in advance for helping to make the world a little bit safer for animals.

[JuggoPop]

what is the size of the logo/banner/header needed? (might be nice to know )

that's a noble cause and I hope the site takes off and everything works out.

[digiweb]

ooh ooh ooh that's such a good question! See it wouldn't have occurred to me to even supply that info. Please ask away:

the site is modelled on the design that comes with the kit, and that design is 726px

[digiweb]

btw, here's the work completed to a few days ago, if this helps you talented artists and graphic designers:

http://bogartcomputing.com/therapuppy/

[JuggoPop]

That's looking good.

another question would be where exatly is the link going to be displayed on the site (for the person that provides the image you choose)

[digiweb]

Any reasonable place, the home page is certainly an option, look on my site, left column, I've been putting reciprocal links there, no idea really how "it's done," I just chose that as convenient, good for search, out of the reader's way.

It's a big deal to me, to have this kind of help. I'm building tools for contact gathering that will eventually morph into animalneighborhood.com -- so therapuppy will be one in a network of sites in the hub.

Anyway, I do go on... suggestions always welcome...

[JuggoPop]

How about this:

http://juggopop.com/therapuppy/

If you use it I'd like a link to v7design.com somewhere on the site.
We don't want it to look like we built the site or anything...
just a special thanks or something of that nature.

www.v7design.com

[digiweb]

that's awesome!

You are totally in the running.

[digiweb]

btw i love your designs on v7n and v7design. I've never seen anything like it. The font works great with the colors.

[JuggoPop]

Originally Posted by CarolineBogart

that's awesome!
You are totally in the running.

thanks... wanted to leave you some room for text in there.

Originally Posted by CarolineBogart

btw i love your designs on v7n and v7design. I've never seen anything like it. The font works great with the colors.

Thanks.
The font is John's choice... he's been branding it for years.
You should check out the whole network of V7 sites.
There are a ton of useful sites that all bend in color and style, while standing on their own two feet.

Thanks again.
Maybe someone else will offer up a header as well... I just thought it was a good cause and hated to see you get no returns.