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Worldbuilding Site Design
Suggestion: add a planetary ring to the logo
I like the logo but feel like it doesn't have much of a silhouette, which makes it seem very generic at smaller sizes. The fact that the colours start to ...
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Save The Robot!
Some history
Let me start with a story.
Back - what, three and a half years ago? almost four - in the mists of ancient time, a strange site wandered into private and then public beta. We weren't like ...
HDE 226868Mod
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Brainstorming Worldbuilding Site Design
So, I think Monica and Frostfyre are on to something, but here's some ideas straight from my head to the paper to here:
So this is a rough concept of an icon I came up with. In the center it's half a ...
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Brainstorming Worldbuilding Site Design
Personally, I think it would be great fun to have something like one of these two images for the background:
The first one identifies our purpose as Worldbuilders in that we build worlds, often with ...
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Worldbuilding's updated site theme is live for everyone!
It's a small thing, but could we have the stars back in the footer? To me that helped convey that our unfinished world was out there in space somewhere.
Old footer:
New footer:
Thank you for ...
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Worldbuilding Site Design
Just some personal thoughts.
Worldbuilding cover a wide range of topics and while I know it might not be easy to make several themes fit in the site design, I feel that the actual one as proposed ...
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Brainstorming Worldbuilding Site Design
I really like the coloring and feeling of @Frostfyre's first image. However, I suggest replacing the painter's hand with a scaffolding and construction workers. Basically, something that uses the ...
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Brainstorming Worldbuilding Site Design
The role of whimsy
While worldbuilding is serious stuff, we're also a whimsical community. (I mean, look at our popular questions! Facebook summoning Cthulhu? Physical properties of Santa's sleigh?...
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Brainstorming Worldbuilding Site Design
Artistic theme
How do we encompass all of the genres covered on the site without leaning too specifically toward one?
I'm not sure we can encompass all of them, but I also think that's ok.
By our ...
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Brainstorming Worldbuilding Site Design
Just throwing out some idea for an icon that could work on tiny sizes:
Just to give you an idea, here is the icon at 16×16 (which is the size of hot-network-question icons):
I know, it has flaws in ...
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Worldbuilding Site Design
Make the world in the logo a little bigger.
From a visual perspective, the world in the logo could be a little bigger to make it have equal weight to the other letters in my opinion, especially in ...
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Worldbuilding's updated site theme is live for everyone!
First off, I too think it's great that we got to keep the robot. It really helps in giving the site a unique look.
status-bydesign - They're fixed in position on the page. We need the image to go ...
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Accepted
When is the new site design being launched?
Today.
I apologize for the delay. We're really excited to update the design and launch the site. A few things came up at work and outside of work that put us behind schedule. I will make sure that we ...
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Is the background image of this site some kind of easter-egg/meta-joke?
Kurtis Beavers, the SE team member who created our site design, explained the background: Worldbuilding Site Design Updates: March 15. The idea of varying main and meta, beyond just the gray-scale ...
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Brainstorming Worldbuilding Site Design
I'm told in the comments that we can have an Error 404 unique page. Can I propose something similar (I am not a graphics person, just threw this together) to the below? It seems that the text can't ...
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Worldbuilding Site Design
I think I mostly like it. I don't think the different levels of details in the different elements is a disadvantage, here; a bit like Monica Cellio, I think it sort of makes a point of showing that ...
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Brainstorming Worldbuilding Site Design
I am a little late to the party but here is my contribution/idea. Never mind the terrible drawing skills :) (oh the thing on the far right is a universe in a hand...)
Here is the full spread (...
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Brainstorming Worldbuilding Site Design
I'd like the design to not be too obtrusive or "in your face". A lot of people browse the site from work and we don't want to discourage them from doing so.
For images itself our discussion on the ...
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Site Design Launched!
Dunno what res other users are working at, but I see more than a little stripe:
... which is perfectly fine by me. Your mileage might vary on the mobile version.
What I'm not as happy with is the ...
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Brainstorming Worldbuilding Site Design
Blog tie-in
Are there any ways that the site should visually connect with the medium blog?
That's a great question! I would like to see some connection between the site and the blog. But we don'...
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Worldbuilding Site Design
A nitpick that I have with both the poster and the site design: The planets, robot and humanoid have light and shadows that appear to be coming from different light sources. The light source appears ...
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Worldbuilding's updated site theme is live for everyone!
I am not a fan of the new theme or changes to the network in general, for many and various reasons which I have already put out there on main, but I do have to say:
I'm am so glad you saved our robot
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Worldbuilding's updated site theme is live for everyone!
I can live with this. Thanks for letting us keep Slartibotfast! I have only one request: when my browser is set for full-screen, the navigation column jumps to the right of Slartibotfast, consuming ...
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Worldbuilding Site Design
I made a comment but I'll promote to an answer so I can add an illustration
Your mesh seems to have off-center positions with lines being uneven lengths. The picture I
Posted here is a dome not a ...
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What is the worldbuilding background picture from?
The image in our site design is an original creation by Kurtis Beavers, a designer with Stack Exchange, seeded by ideas from our community. You can see more about how the site design came about in ...
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Accepted
can we make a skin or theme for the site?
You need to get out of Beta (which Worldbuilding is) and it requires StackExchange to make a site theme for you....which they are in the process of doing for us.
So, Yes and it's coming.
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Accepted
May (and should) we use the site design on our blog?
The blog design is good but I would prefer carrying the main site theme over to be blog if we have the option to do so.
Its links them visually and lets be honest...our site design is awesome...
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What will we lose with the redesign?
Well, looks like they removed the robot and the lady.
There's a answer on MSE that mentions and asks for their return and I strongly recommend y'all to make your voices heard on the subject by voting ...
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Does someone have the source image of this site?
For the normal and meta design next to each other you can look at Worldbuilding Site Design Updates: March 15, which has the image here.
You can look at Worldbuilding Site Design, which has the link ...
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Worldbuilding's updated site theme is live for everyone!
There is a way to keep the robot from sinking in quicksand!
Doing it requires two steps:
Remove the current robot background from the body tag.
Add the following ...
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