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!
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Last spanner in the works after which I will rest. Simplified the drawings
Not sure about what the reaction will be to this, but also added the APM, ARDUcopter, ARDUpilot, and ARDUrover logos as options. Think the one with the APM powered can be used as a banner exchange on other websites etc.
Petrus awesome.. I like the last one.. or the second to last one.. the color scheme of the last one is nice.
... @petrus, 2.3 is my favorite now
+1 for petrus
(i fhink, the new series are really cool. Maybe the space between DIYDRONES and "The leading ..." is a little bit to wide/big ... just 1c)
+1 for jethro
(i fhink the the font-type is not compatible with italic, i always read the ledding community ...)
... nice improvements.
V2.0
Darkside Tribute Header for amusement
'UAV' still saddles the community with a flying emphasis. Balancing your origins with what will be is tough.
'UVS' -Unmanned Vehicle Systems covers all possibiliites present and future.
-=Doug
+1 for the last one also
Petrus +1 for the last one! ;)
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