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Kommunity Redesign Project - - PHASE II

UPDATE:  09/25/15

With nearly 2000 votes cast and counted, the overwhelmingly preferred design for the new Kommunity banner is . . .

(drumroll please)

Congratulations to our mythical beast Kommunity member TRISEPTA on the winning design.  Coming very soon, all Kommunity common pages will sport this new design, but today you can visit his profile page to see it in working order ...

... and a huge THANK YOU to all who contributed their talent, ideas and opinions in this process. You're all winners!

UPDATE:  09/16/2015

The submission period has ended, and the selection kommittee has narrowed the field down to the TOP 3 entries. 

Please click the yellow pic below to cast your vote at the Google polling place.

(will open a window outside the R&L Kommunity)

Voting will run ONE WEEK ONLY and the winner will be announced on Friday, 25-Sep-2015. 

A message from the K-Mods:

As you may have noticed, there have been several recent changes made to the layout of the Kommunity front page, including some redesign / shifting of the features layout.

This is all part of R&L’s master plan when they decided to “hand over the keys” for this to become a wholly FAN-BASED and FAN-RUN social network and the K-Mods agreed to take on all of the day-to-day maintenance, operation and safekeeping of the website. 

Today, following the celebration of our 100,000th active kommunity member, we move into the next step of this changeover where we come to YOU, the mythical beasts of the Kommunity, to help us decide what this place will look like in the very near future. Planning is now under way to refresh and redesign the website’s pages including:

A brand new top-of-page BANNER

Effective immediately, we are soliciting all of your considerable talents to create a new banner.  Submit your ideas by posting on this KBE discussion thread.  Better yet, put your Graphic Artists skills to good work and completely design one for us!

Ning's header dimensions are only width bound, so banner submissions can be any height but no more than 955 pixels wide.

The contest to submit your banner design will end on Tuesday, September 15th.  All submissions must be posted by that deadline in order to be included in the voting. Once the K-Mods have had an opportunity to review your designs, a voting place will be opened, so no need to "vote" here and now on the entries being posted up.

A new design theme and color scheme for the entire site

The Ning site builder tools have over 50 basic designs to choose from, but we hope to narrow that down to a “Top 5” before opening up a voting page for the Kommunity members to decide. You can play with the look of your own personal page and maybe come up with a suggestion that’s the best thing since sliced bacon . . . colors, fonts, layout, etc . . . everything can all get the basic or custom design treatment at:

 http://rhettandlinkommunity.com/profiles/appearance/edit

 

Tell us what you want!

It’s true that not every single wish can be granted, but all serious suggestions will be given due consideration and perhaps you have some idea that will make this site a much better looking and better working place for us all to enjoy. If it's a good idea, benefits the members, promotes a better Kommunity and there's any way to make it happen, we'll jump right on that.

PLEASE NOTE:

Thanks for the responses but, for all who keep asking, just leaving the setup "as-is" is not an option.  Please see below.

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Permalink Reply by Carol (Aelrindyl) on August 16, 2015 at 4:16am
We have not touched anything of the re-design yet. All working my end. Try emptying your browsers cache and see if that helps.
Permalink Reply by Berenika (chewbaccacorn) on August 16, 2015 at 6:37am
The community should be a app

K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on August 19, 2015 at 3:31pm

Maybe you're not understanding . . . the banner is the entire area outlined in RED below . . . the image that you replaced is advertising space, which is not being changed.  That's how Rhett and Link make money to produce videos for you and feed their families.

Permalink Reply by int 80h on August 31, 2015 at 12:49pm

Oh, so you mean the UI elements / menus! I was thinking the actual top banner.

Huh, guess I made the banner in vain, then.

Will the ad space be kept in the same position in the new design? If so, we'd need to know the dimensions of that as well.

Permalink Reply by Ebony Beast on August 23, 2015 at 9:39am

I adore Carol's banner so much, Ivette's is also good.

Permalink Reply by ✘Jon Dolyramayan (Niko Bellic)✘ on August 23, 2015 at 4:39pm

oh.... >_< oops 

Permalink Reply by Ambate (Chimera) on August 23, 2015 at 10:05pm

Gumbo123,

Question, well clarification really, when you are talking about narrowing down the basic formats available down to a Top 5 to be voted on this is for the new look of the site right? We will still be able to design our personal pages with any of the formats, or will that be changing as well?


K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on August 24, 2015 at 1:09am

Yes. What we are talking about here is the basic look of the Kommunity public pages - - - each member's personal profile page can still be designed according to their own taste and favorite colors, layout, etc.

Permalink Reply by int 80h on August 31, 2015 at 12:47pm

So, Here's my contribution:

It's a backdrop compliant banner.

Meaning, it'll work well with all sorts of backdrops (except Fuchsia / Magenta, because that's the inverted color of the green), because of (clever) alpha masking.

I used the PriceDown typeface for the logotype, and the CI green for the color.

Here are some more samples:

Simulacrum with white backdrop:

Simulacrum with black backdrop:

Simulacrum with 50% gray backdrop:

In case NING messes up the file upload here, the banner can be downloaded from here: http://ibin.co/2E3TnoTkYE78

Please note, that the banner looks best when it's framed left and right (either by the rest of the design or another content block), and sticks with its top to the page head and bottom edge to the rest of whatever design you choose.


K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on August 31, 2015 at 12:54pm

Thanks, mate.  Wish I knew what all the technotalk was about, but I don't and that's not the important thing . . . I like the looks whatever it means

Permalink Reply by int 80h on August 31, 2015 at 12:54pm

Just notices, the UI elements have to be changed. But to do that, I'd need to know what sort of links you're planning, and if the ad space is to be kept in the same position or moved elsewhere.

Permalink Reply by Carol (Aelrindyl) on August 31, 2015 at 1:27pm

UPDATE

With two weeks to go, here are the current submissions we have had. There is still time to join in and submit a banner design yourself. Not artistic? Then submit ideas or even play around in Mypage for some colour/theme suggestions.

Josh Pullen

Ivette (Quadricorn)

Carol (Aelrindyl)

int 80h

(Int has more examples of this design with different colours in the post here:**

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