2 days ago Robbie contacted me to design him a custom wordpress design for his Trampolines blog where he will advertise the trampolines he’s selling.

He asked me to design him a fun design and that he wants to target mostly parents. So i designed a fun banner which is attractive to both kids and parents.

Here’s the main concept of the banner:

in the left corner there are 2 kids who are having fun on the trampoline, with other kids waiting in line

the sun is shining bright and from the right part kids are hurrying to also jump around with a happy mom and dad recommending the service

if i would put an other trampoline than this concept would get messed up because the running kids would have an other place to go to

To create the banner i used lots of stock illustrations(the good thing is that they are royalty-free and you just buy them once and use them forever) and i brushed a lot to get everything look like it’s one piece.

I used 2 fonts from 2 different categories to make the logo:

- MarkerFeltThin-PlainMarkerFeltThin-Plain which is from the handwriting category for “Fantastic Fun”

- Myriad Pro Semibold-Condensed for the “Great fun all summer for every kid” tagline.

Basically the main purpose of the design is to be as appealing as possible and to attract as many customers as possible. This is why i incorporated a testimonial box right in the top of the sidebar.

For the sidebar element titles i used a red rectangle and at every important element i varied the text color to make the design as fun as possible.

I had a rough time thinking out the concept of the posts and mostly i couldn’t think of a cool timestamp background image, but then i remembered that i saw a stock photo with kids and adults holding banners in their hands and one of them matched perfectly the design, so i used it.

To display the comments i made a talk bubble, nothing fancy, but cool.

This design is a great example on how important stock images and stock illustrations are in a webdesigner’s life. They can help create a bright, cheerful design which wouldn’t be possible without the use of them.

Robbie was extremely satisfied with my work and he said that he will have more projects for me in the future:

Robbie: am off for food, thankyou very much for your help tom. will be in contact in the near future for more

The coding of the theme will be done by Naif, i already contacted him about this project and i can’t wait to see my design go live