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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.
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.
Replies to This Discussion
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K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on -
personally, I would love to see maybe something similar to the bottom of page banner that is currently on RhettandLink.com . . . it is a secondary link on their page (beside the top header tab) that points folks to the Kommunity and it looks like this
We could easily redesign it a bit to become a Kommunity top-of page . . .
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Permalink Reply by Ray Carlos (Igneous Tuto Nyctea) on
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I am not sure if you understood my posting, I understand and know where the RandLer came from. I am not saying to dismiss it completely but to add to it.
The Randler is the original mythical beast of the community and should stay as the mascot of it. All I am saying is the we call ourselves "Mythical Beasts" and Rhett and Link address us as such, this was voted on by the members of the Kommunity and choosen with good reasoning: http://rhettandlinkommunity.com/video/rhett-weighs-in-on-mythical. Therefore our page should reflect that. We are many and we are all different and have named ourselves differently within the community. So why not have something that shows that, and that as a mythical beast community we have grown in our diversity by adding other mythical beasts to our banner. Have the RandLer in the forefront, as it should be, and then add into the background other mythical beasts of the Komunity.
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Permalink Reply by Elena (Ice Tiger) on
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I think this site is a piece of Rhett and Link history. Although I don't think it should change, I think that when we do it should keep the same colors and the same feel to it. It's a historic part of their history. I still think that maybe there could be a different site that has changes to it. This original site was the beginning of a lot of things. I am not afraid of change but I think that there shouldn't be so many changes. The colors should definitely stay the same.
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Permalink Reply by Lara Young on
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Why change? It's perfect the way it is now!
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Permalink Reply by Karli (Obsessed Randler) on
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I believe we should at least keep the signature green color. This is the color we all know and love.
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Permalink Reply by Kate (Phoenix) on
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In my opinion the change is good and I think it will be amazing to create something totally new and ours. We should keep colors for sure but changing the page is really a good idea just refresh everything. Part of Beasts here comment that page is awesome just the way it is but maybe before saying that we don't want any changes we should take a look at ideas . we should make this things totally ours now and celebrate that Rhett and Link trust us and now its outs decision to change or not! Come on everybody maybe it's worth it to just think about it :) Be your Mythical Best !
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K-ModPermalink Reply by Victoria (Centauromadoose) on -
I know a lot of people are saying they don't want anything to change, but the Kommunity has been in need of this kind of update for a long time.
From a website design, marketing, and graphic standpoint, a design refresh is an EXCELLENT thing to perform on a fairly regular basis. Designs can easily become stale, and it's obvious when a website's appearance falls behind the modern curve. There are things about this site that are pretty clearly dated; revamping the design is an excellent opportunity to breathe new life into the Kommunity as a website and as a creative outlet for mythical beasts.
We don't want the Kommunity to just be a historical artifact. It is a living, growing community of people that is evolving every day. The appearance of the website should reflect that.
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Permalink Reply by Carol (Aelrindyl) on
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Wow some great ideas there.
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Permalink Reply by Nikky (alieneast) on
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AWESOME looks gr8
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Permalink Reply by Lora Fay (Phantom Fairy) on
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This is cool!
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Permalink Reply by Laurndler (pwca) on
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That looks great! I wonder if they'll change their logo though (I'm rooting for new hairstyles... root-ing, geddit?) and let's use a RandLer anyway, as suggested by others in this thread. Having said that, I can't design for squat, so will you do it again but with a RandLer instead of Rhett and Link's green logo, if people agree on this one?
I really like the sign-posts and outdoors GMM theme in general.
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Permalink Reply by Kyle (Anthrimichael) on
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Woah! The whole kommunity should look like that- not just the header. I was going to submit my own but this blows it away!
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