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 100,000^th 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 15^th. 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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K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on September 9, 2015 at 6:13pm

I also like the idea (and look) of moving the advert space below the header banner and tabs. Nice work!

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K-ModPermalink Reply by Victoria (Centauromadoose) on September 4, 2015 at 3:33pm

Sorry, Gumbo, but this current mosaic background looks like moldy old carpet. xD

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K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on September 4, 2015 at 3:56pm

back to the really moldy carpet then?

versus

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Permalink Reply by Ray Carlos (Igneous Tuto Nyctea) on September 4, 2015 at 12:27pm

I like your page and I would not mind it as the Komm home page. There is one problem that I have with it, it has nothing to do with the look of the page just the lay out. I know we need advertisement to keep the site free to members but this is what I see when I load up your page:

The advertisement banner covers up the top half of the Komm Seal. I know not everyone will have this problem, my wife does not see it when on her work computer, but that has to do with her company not allowing it. Unfortunately the rest of us that us private computers at home, or public ones, will have this situation.

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Permalink Reply by Trisepta on September 4, 2015 at 12:36pm

Thanks for the comment. I'm aware of this and I think there are plans to change the advertising space later on when the site gets a redesign.

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Permalink Reply by Inactive on September 4, 2015 at 6:57pm

I think that we should have the banner change every so often, like Google does with their homepage so that many different ideas will be displayed and you do not have to see the same thing every time you log on, as that could get boring

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Permalink Reply by Maddie on September 5, 2015 at 6:35pm

Also agree

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Permalink Reply by Paige Hall (Purple Platypus) on September 5, 2015 at 8:58pm

I really like the logo that they use at the end of some of their videos on the rhettandlink channel. I think it would be neat to make the logo 3D (possibly one that moves/rotates?) and then have the background of the header a darker metallic green. Just a thought. I'm not great at using those web creator sites.

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