Professional Design for Landscaping Contractor

Sampson's Landscaping

We're developing a site for a local landscaping designer and contractor. They help residents turn their boring yards into extravagant gardens, patios, living spaces and play areas. They also do the dirty work like maintenance, drainage and retaining walls. They do really nice work and have fantastic personalities... really professional on all levels.

Some sites the client likes:
http://www.midwestlandscapes.com/
http://www.ericthomaslandscaping.com/

The audience is relatively affluent residents of San Francisco and Marin County California. These people would typically be in their 30's, 40's and 50's and own property, have a couple of nice cars and investments.

We have a typekit account so I'd love to see the use of some interesting fonts on the site that can be included via font embedding. See typekit.com for examples of fonts we can use.

Be sure to use the attached logo and incorporate it into the site look.

Elements the design should include:
- global header
- logo
- global nav
-- Expertise
-- Quality
-- Our Work
-- Testimonials
-- About Us
-- Contact Us
- Search box and button
- global footer
- footer nav
-- Home
-- Expertise
-- Quality
-- Our Work
-- Testimonials
-- About Us
-- Contact Us
- Phone number
- "License #123456789"
- Link to Copyright Statement
- Link to Privacy Policy
- c2010 Sampson's Landscaping, Inc.
- Large intro text, something like "We'll bring your landscape dreams to life".
- A paragraph of smaller supporting text to further introduce the company.
- a big lifestyle image - this will rotate - full width or close to it
-- Layered over the image is some verbiage "Brick Patio Design and Installation" and smaller, below that "San Francisco, Ca"
- A box for "Recent Work" with 2-3 listings below that including a thumbnail, name and 1 sentence with a link to See More
- A testimonial with the speaker's initials and city "San Jose, Ca"
- A promo box that leads to a form where they can request a quote. Something that stands out as a call to action.