Here are some choices for banners on the PTR site. Feedback would be appreciated.

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As you can see from Tom’s post below, we have a logo.

Tom is working on designing the site, I’m drumming up interest and looking into advertising. OpenX is looks like something I’d like to try, but I’m not sure how it works exactly. I’ll be taking a longer look at it tonight.

Also, I’m going to create a banner logo for others to post in their blogs to help us advertise the launch. We hope all of our blogger friends will pump it occasionally for us.

We are still looking for investors, advertisers, etc. If you are interested, please let us know!

Until then, make mine PTR!

As a non artistic person I’m finding the process of site design to be a challenge.  The first draft of the landing page was completed on Saturday, then I summarily rejected it.  It was good for a first effort but it looked too web 1.0 and not enough web 2.0.

In other news I think we’ve nailed down our logo for Poker Tech Reviews.  That’s it there at the top of the post.  We have in red and black.  What do you think?

You may want to note the countdown clock at the right. That represents how many days there are until “The Launch”.

Tom worked very hard to make that. It looks great, Tom!

Judge Ito Sidebar: He might sell give you the code for that, if you are interested.

Thanks Tom, for having me aboard.

As I posted on my own blog, we need help in a few areas:

1. a graphic designer to help with Logo/banner design, and overall site design (we need you now)
2. spreading of “The Word”; talking about the site (we hope all bloggers will help with that)
3. advertising and Sales advice/assistance.
4. other investors
5. direct advertisers
6. review writers (who will be paid for each review)

We hope everyone will consider helping.

Tomorrow I will discuss what else I’m working on.

To simplify the process were going to look to news feeds to fill the bulk of news items for the site.  Their will be some original news items but they will be in the minority.  Links from this page will take the user to the originating site/article.  In essence this will serve as a news aggregator from various trusted sources.

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Here is the proposed skeleton layout for the Category Page.  When a user selects a category from the home page, they will be taken to a listing showing all the reviews within that category.

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Here is the first draft of the site’s Landing Page.  I’m pleased with it myself but we’ll see what kind of reaction I get.

Next up is the category layout page.  Fortunately this will be universal for all categories so I don’t need to have them nailed down 100% yet.

I’ve been spending some time learning more about Google Sites. Were using that for our intranet and I’m liking it so far.  It’s easy to add sites to serve as project pages and you certainly can’t beat the cost.

I’m also going to work on adding some sidebar content to this blog detailing what software were using so far in the development process.  Nothing out of the ordinary but I want to keep everyone updated on the process.

Let me know what you think of the layout.