Artwork Ideas:

Wizards and Artwork

Mockups:

Note: Mockups are merely digital storyboards to illustrate possible color schemes and layout variations. They are stagnant and positioned to mesh with the left corner of the monitor. Once design is chosen and implemented, the site will be coded to be liquid and fluid to fit any screen resolution above the agreed starting point (generally 800 x 600).

Software Sorcery Mockup 1  Gold/Blue/Gray

Software Sorcery Mockup 2  White/Blue/Gray

Software Sorcery Mockup 3 Wizard With Disk

Software Sorcery Mockup 3 Variation Wizard With Smaller Sized Disk and Beveling on Parts if Robe and Hair

Software Sorcery Mockup 4 With Lightening Bolt  Several things were tried to make a background bolt work with the text backup links. The only way all of the text links would be visible with the bolt was to place a transparency on the bolt.

Modifications made to comply with your recent requests are as follows:

Gold changed to more yellow in it.
Navigation bar reversed and placed on left side
Wizard moved to the right side
Lightening bolt experiment

Other modifications made that improve design:

Reduced size of text on navigaiton bar and made round buttons smaller.
Darkened skin tone on Wizard
Lightened shadow on mustache
Extended Wizard's fingers
Put drop shadow on logo

Software Sorcery Mockup 5 Variation  Same page with another possible way to handle bolt and text links.

Before beginning shell, I need to have approval for which of these mockups or combinations thereof you want for the home page.

Proposal/Quote/Additional Information:

Proposal with Quote