doneb needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 90 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Power Admin LLC
I run a small software company that is competing with IBM, Microsoft, CA, HP and other heavy weights in the server monitoring market.
There is a great website (ServerFault.com) where I've been showing some banner ads, but they're not performing -- the competition looks better. So I'm turning to 99designs in hopes of coming up with something better.
IT guys primarily -- server admins, network admins, etc.
This is for PA Server Monitor:
http://www.poweradmin.com/servermonitor
Version 3.7 (coming out soon) is more attractive than our current version, so if you grab any screenshots please use v3.7 (there are existing screenshots in the documentation at:
http://www.poweradmin.com/help/SM_3_7/index.aspx
Product Name is:
PA Server Monitor
Company name is "Power Admin LLC", and I do NOT want that in the ad.
"3.7" should not be in the ad.
We want to focus on simplicity (our product is easier to configure than most). Information that is easily available, let the computer do the work so you don't have to -- that kind of thing.
I have some examples of banners that are doing well:
http://www.poweradmin.com/ads/others_banners.zip
no flash, or any animation :(
100kb per banner max
sizes of 728 x 90 and 220 x 250
.jpg, .gif or .png is OK as the final output