Redesign TalkGraphics!
You may spend quite a bit of time here, so why not design it how you want?
As you may know, I've been working on a way to migrate TalkGraphics to a new messageboard system. This is becuase the performance and level of service from our current providers has been been poor and lacks flexibility.
I am pleased to say that this is coming closer to reality, and it hopefully won't be too long until these forums are run on vBulletin and are hosted by ourselves. This means faster, better and no disk space restrictions (and that means no trouble with attachments anymore!).
New design
To go with this move, it'd be really nice to redesign TalkGraphics, to give it a fresh lick of paint and to move away from what will be the standard v-Bulletin look.
To that end, this is an open competition to design a heading/title design for the top of the page. Feel free to do what you want, but key requirements are:
<UL TYPE=SQUARE>
<LI>That it is something that isn't too large (in terms of download size, or 'real estate') and at the very least contains the word "TalkGraphics.com". You can change the page colors if you wish.
<LI>You don't mind giving us your original artwork files, and then using them to redecorate TalkGraphics, and that we may adapt them to fit the needs of the messageboard design.
<LI>That, if we choose your design, when we're customizing the rest of the message you won't mind if we talk to you, get your opinions on colors etc.
<LI>It's a design that you, as a user of TalkGraphics, won't mind looking at each day![/list]
To give you an idea of what vBulletin looks like as standard, this is their site's messageboard:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/
The only difference is that our version will be unfixed width.
The winner
We will probably hold a poll to gauge people on what they like; after all, these are your forums. This is the main reason for this competition, so that you can design the place you frequent.
However, as an additional incentive the winner will receive the entire Xara product suite.
If you have any questions, let let me know. Otheriwse, I hope you enjoy the challenge!
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