You may have noticed some slight design changes here over the past day, which are simply me band-aiding a situation where the external site that hosted some of our design files shut down, leaving a bunch of broken images and mangled CSS here. For now I've reverted to some native Ning design features and brought back an old header (above), but this strikes me as a good time to start the process of a proper redesign.
In Spring, Ning (which we're hosted on) will roll out a bunch of new design and functionality features, which should improve things here considerably. It still won't perfect, especially for very long comment threads, so we're going to launch some new forums for product/software discussion/support on the new manual/wiki site that we'll be previewing in a few weeks. These new forums will be based on a very good WordPress forum plug-in, so they should be a big step up from what we've currently got. And by pushing product/technical support to a separate site, DIY Drones can focus more on its original function on news and discussion about civilian UAVs and technology in general.
In the meantime, it's time to update our header. So I'd like to launch a competition for the best design. The winner will get an APM 2.5+.
Guidelines:
- Create a rectangular graphic (width 955 1,000 pixels, height anything from 100 to 200 pixels) that will replace the above.
- The name should stay the same ("DIY Drones") but the tagline should change to "Amateur UAVs, Contests, Products and More" Revision: I've had advice to lead with "community", so let's try this: "The Leading Community for Amateur and Civilian UAVs" Another revision! After yet more advice, let's go with "The leading community for personal UAVs". You can use any style you think looks best (caps or lowercase).
- There should be some image of a UAV. Ideally, it should look cool and "drone-like" but not look military or threatening. Fixed wing or multicopter, it's up to you.
- Post your submissions in the comments below
- The competition will run one month, until March 23rd
Last time we did this, back in 2010, we got some great submissions. I'm looking forward to seeing what the design talent in this community can come up with this time!
Comments
Here is an Idea...
Ok, I will submit a possible header or two in the next few days
@Andrew Rabbit I like the 3D effect the Quad looks a little small and the wing a little big . In 3D a rover could be on the ground. Maby something "Animated" so the vehicles move around? @ Matt looks Great maby more detail in the center of the quad and on the wing. Guys I am not complaining just a little feed back . (Actually I am Envious! I don't have the computer skill to do anything.) have a Great Day!
I think I should be figuring out PPM encoder code instead, but here's my doodling...
I don't know Robert, I agree with you, but with a name like DIYDrones, ground vehicles are hard to fit in.
Maybe DIYDroids, we are moving in that direction after all.
I do like Matt's latest, but no Rover love?
Really great Matt,
That does look a lot like a X100, and while they undoubtedly hold patents, it is extremely unlikely that they have a patent on the appearance of their plane.
There are a lot of small UAV's that look very similar to this.
Bottom line very nice and crisp logo.
Matt that is my favorite so far.. I like the centered logo since, plane + multicopter and treatments.. as a multicopter guy I don't like the logos that feature a plan over the quad, and vise versa... so having both I think is ideal
Didn't even notice it reverted from the MQ-9 to the more fabled MQ-1. Like any dot com, it's not about functionality. It's about the IPO.
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