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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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This is really awesome!

The only thing I'm not a big fan of is the green background of the selected tab (in your image, "my page") It looks like the page is on top of the banner. However, the shadows on the ends of the banner make it look like the banner is on top of the page. :/ Maybe extend that shadow across the entire width of the banner, and then just change text color for the selected tab?

MIGHTY AWESOME!!!

This is the kind of clean-fresh-new-but-still-maintains-Kommunity-character design that we're looking for.  I know you've said it's still a work in progress, can't wait to see the finished product.

Very clean design -- this would be a great update to the Kommunity. Thanks for the great submission (so far)!

Thank you all! :D

I'll work on the tab next. That was something I was planning on fixing. I'm still trying to figure out all of the CSS.

I've got to work on the top part with the mountains/trees and then I might change the "BE YOUR MYTHICAL BEST"

I might have it on one side and then something else on the other. I'll have to see.

What do you think about the green "mosaic" background that I'm currently using for the common pages?  Could you perhaps test this (or any other similar textured image that strikes your interest) out on your profile page and test how that works?

I'm just curious to see what something like this would look instead of the solid green background you're currently showing.

Here is the linked image that I'm using in the CSS . . .

https://api.ning.com/files/SDhgST2Am3WP*3IYpVEuhk5OwBY99YQL1nZbH0Ro...

Gotta admit I'm not a fan of the mosaic, few in chat said similar like it looks like the Komm is sick with something scaley


Love that banner though

I'm not a fan of the mosaic. The tiles stand out too much as you can see where the pattern repeats.

I've got an idea for the background though. It should look nice and blend in well.

I just added some texture to the background. What do you think?

Yes, that does help.  Also just noticed the RandLer at bottom left of the page.  Nice touch.

The advertisement issue that Ray Carlos notes below is an easy fix.  Just add some extra blue sky space above to move the mountains down.  On the Ning layout the banner is limited by width (955 pixels) but not height, so that would shift everything down to give more space for the ads.

I found a solution for the ads, but they keep moving back to the original position whenever I add the CSS. 

It doesn't do that if I just edit the page:

I like this one!

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