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Amigaworld.net News   Amigaworld.net News : Design an amigaworld.net theme contest
   posted by DaveyD on 20-Oct-2005 8:33:51 (3752 reads)
Are you a budding artist? Have you got design skills? Think you can make aw.net look better? Then enter the 'Design an amigaworld.net theme contest'.

The 5 best designs selected by the amigaworld.net staff will go into a poll for website members to vote for their favorite. The winning design selected by website members will become the default theme for amigaworld.net. Runners up designs will also be added to the themes dropdown menu on the left.


Everyone will be fully credited for the designs we use and their name will appear at the bottom of the website i.e. "Theme designed by X".

We dont have much to offer the winner, but we can offer you free hosting with a web address on Amigaworld's server plus an amigaworld.net mousemat.

Upload your designs to our OS4 Gallery in the 'Amigaworld.net Site Design Ideas' section.
http://amigaworld.net/modules/myalbum/submit.php
    

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AmiGame 
Re: Design an amigaworld.net theme contest
Posted on 20-Oct-2005 9:24:45
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That's a great idea.

Maybe also people without "Design skills" could give suggestions about what they would like and what they don't ?

- One of my favourite would be a "more accessible and visible" Search button...

- Then it may look nice (but not necessary at all) if the event section could be sorted depending of where you live (stored in a cookie set in User Profile)... If you live in UK, then events in UK will appear first followed by the rest of Europe, then US, etc. for example...


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Re: Design an amigaworld.net theme contest
Posted on 20-Oct-2005 10:07:37
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I agree, the "Search" button should be next to the "Home" or "User account" button on the top of the page.
Or, at last, on top of the "Extras" list.

Ther is nothing more frustrating than searching for th search engine of a web site !!

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Posted on 20-Oct-2005 11:09:42
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The fact you need to search at all suggests something is wrong with the interface


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Posted on 20-Oct-2005 13:24:56
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Ok........I'll submit my design.......

When It's Done(Tm)

Am I being too subtle?

Ok. Going back to my happy place now.
We have no hotdogs!!! But we will when it's done!!!


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Re: Design an amigaworld.net theme contest
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oh Gawwwwd.

PLEASE leave the site as it is.

A.Org changed its interface and I just cant "dig it", ( WhyzZaT is kewl though) please don't follow in ts footsteps.


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I guess I was being too subtle.

What is the closing date?

Ok. Going back to my happy place now.
We have no hotdogs!!! But I can draw one for you....


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@The_Editor
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oh Gawwwwd.

PLEASE leave the site as it is.

They are themes remember, so you can choose whatever one you prefer.


@BigBentheAussie
Closing date is whenever theres enough entries, at least 5, ideally 10

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ok.

/me breaths a sigh of relief.


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I'm not too sure if it uploaded to the site, keep getting error? Any way so here mine.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b168/amigang/theme.jpg

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Posted on 20-Oct-2005 21:10:39
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Can I ask that if your going to include pics in this item that you provide them as links, its screwing up the layout.

Thanks

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Posted on 20-Oct-2005 23:24:49
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" amigang's theme "
It sure looks very good.

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Posted on 21-Oct-2005 17:31:47
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I'll probably get flamed for this but I have to say I think that amigaworld.net is probably the best looking website in the amiga scene.

Meanwhile, amiga.com is the UGLIEST website design I've ever seen. Maybe amigaworld staff should be working on the amiga.com site. Heck, am I the only one who thinks this?


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I'm personally against that competition, simply because I think that AW.net looks good and elegant
already. Adding more eye-candy will just add clutter and there's no good reason to remove any of
the already existing stuff,


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I don`t see the point of redesigning already the BEST looking amiga site. It would be more smart to spend designing energy on creating normal designs for the WORST looking "site" E V E R - amiga.com... I trying to contact [several times] amiga.com "stuff" offering my redesign of amiga.com for FREE [!] - and nobody answered... Ehh.... :(

p.s. last night we installed on real ppc amiga MorphOS - well - that is what I call - design. Pity there is only OS on that CD without any other demo, program or game, but for what I saw - I was amazed that artist who did design for MOS - did it perfectly. Also - MorphOS main site was [is] the most professional looking around. Pity amiga.com "people" will never grow up...


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I am thinking why bother redesigning? cos well as the majority of people have said... AW.net already loos great... so why spend all this time?


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