Our
website needs help. Badly. Its a sad combination of my poor design skills and lack of time.
Below are a few lists of things that we need to accomplish with this design.
We need:
- Current news about nightstar ticker
- Server information
- How to guide "To Nightstar"
- Forum Links
- Links to chat
- At least two spots to put some advertising (This will likely be a blend of custom advertising and global advertising)
- Flexibility to be able to add content easily. Either through a CMS or statically.
- Smooth design that can be easily modified
We would consider:
- Spot for Polls
- AJAXy interface, but in a sane fast way
Things we would like to avoid:
- Dark colors - I know we're Nightstar, but we don't need to be branded that way
- Flash
So theres the stipulations. Heres how it will work:
You will
submit your design. Then on April 1, 2012 we will lock the thread and pick the top designs. Shortly after we will post a poll of the designs and let the community have a say in which designs they like the best. After that poll is over we will pick the winner.
Heres what you will win:
- We will link provide a link to your website at the bottom of every page
- A custom Title on the Zoo with anything you want!*
- A non-expiring Nickname and Channel on the IRC network **
- A custom vhost on the IRC network*
- Bragging rights to say that you designed the website
* This is within reason because we will not allow anything that is considered offensive. We will be the final say of what is "considered offensive".
** Any nickname that you currently own is eligible. Also if you do not have a channel you may give the gift to any non-Network Administration channel with permission from the owner
Most important. Have Fun!