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I'm in the process of building a custom skin for my Askbot installation at the moment. I was initially planning to do a "spin-off" of that custom skin as a suggestion for a new additional skin for askbot, but as things proceed, it becomes clearer and clearer that the custom skin has so many things unique to that project that a spin-off becomes more and more difficult.

Therefore, I would like to take a different path and propose slight changes to Askbot's current skin as the default skin and design for the askbot.org site. I just had a little bit of free time and managed to work out a suggestion. I have come to really like the Askbot robot and propose to make it the official logo. (Could I have an EPS to play around with?) I've added a drop shadowed enlarged text to use next to the robot, underneath it or standalone. Most of the sketch is directly taken from the current stage of askbot.org really and changed slightly in colour and layout.

The black frame is for illustration purposes only. The red bar to the top is supposed to stretch across the whole screen. The content is centered in a 960px container, as usual.

What do you think? Do you like it?

At the moment, the sketch is a plain PhotoImpact graphics file. If the skin (or parts of it) is liked, I would be ready to work it into HTML - I can't give a definite time frame for that right now, though, as it's going to be lots of detail work (much more than just changing the front page).

I also don't know what @Evgeny may already be planning, or doing, in this area.

In the long term, it might also make sense to build a rough "style guide" defining which colours to use where, what size ratios between Logo and text, etc. etc. to achieve a consistent visual interface.

Looking forward to your feedback!

I'm in the process of building a custom skin for my Askbot installation at the moment. I was initially planning to do a "spin-off" of that custom skin as a suggestion for a new additional skin for askbot, but as things proceed, it becomes clearer and clearer that the custom skin has so many things unique to that project that a spin-off becomes more and more difficult.

Therefore, I would like to take a different path and propose slight changes to Askbot's current skin as the default skin and design for the askbot.org site. I just had a little bit of free time and managed to work out a suggestion. I have come to really like the Askbot robot and propose to make it the official logo. (Could I have an EPS to play around with?) I've added a drop shadowed enlarged text to use next to the robot, underneath it or standalone. Most of the sketch is directly taken from the current stage of askbot.org really and changed slightly in colour and layout.

What do you think? Do you like it?

At the moment, the sketch is a plain PhotoImpact graphics file. If the skin (or parts of it) is liked, I would be ready to work it into HTML - I can't give a definite time frame for that right now, though, as it's going to be lots of detail work (much more than just changing the front page).

I also don't know what @Evgeny may already be planning, or doing, in this area.

In the long term, it might also make sense to build a rough "style guide" defining which colours to use where, what size ratios between Logo and text, etc. etc. to achieve a consistent visual interface.

Looking forward to your feedback!

I'm in the process of building a custom skin for my Askbot installation at the moment. I was initially planning to do a "spin-off" of that custom skin as a suggestion for a new additional skin for askbot, but as things proceed, it becomes clearer and clearer that the custom skin has so many things unique to that project that a spin-off becomes more and more difficult.

Therefore, I would like to take a different path and propose slight changes to Askbot's current skin as the default skin and design for the askbot.org site. I just had a bit of free time and managed to work out a suggestion. I have come to really like the Askbot robot and propose to make it the official logo. I've added a drop shadowed enlarged text to use next to the robot, underneath it or standalone. Most of the sketch is directly taken from the current stage of askbot.org really and changed slightly in colour and layout.

What do you think? Do you like it?

At the moment, the sketch is a plain PhotoImpact graphics file. If the skin (or parts of it) is liked, I would be ready to work it into HTML - I can't give a definite time frame for that right now, though, as it's going to be lots of detail work (much more than just changing the front page).

I also don't know what @Evgeny may already be planning, or doing, in this area.

In the long term, it might also make sense to build a rough "style guide" defining which colours to use where, what size ratios between Logo and text, etc. etc. to achieve a consistent visual interface. If so wanted, I can build the long term basis for that.

Looking forward to your feedback!

I'm in the process of building a custom skin for my Askbot installation at the moment. I was initially planning to do a "spin-off" of that custom skin as a suggestion for a new additional skin for askbot, but as things proceed, it becomes clearer and clearer that the custom skin has so many things unique to that project that a spin-off becomes more and more difficult.

Therefore, I would like to take a different path and propose slight changes to Askbot's current skin as the default skin and design for the askbot.org site. I just had a bit of free time and managed to work out a suggestion. I have come to really like the Askbot robot and propose to make it the official logo. I've added a drop shadowed enlarged text to use next to the robot, underneath it or standalone. Most of the sketch is directly taken from the current stage of askbot.org really and changed slightly in colour and layout.

What do you think? Do you like it?

At the moment, the sketch is a plain PhotoImpact graphics file. If the skin (or parts of it) is liked, I would be ready to work it into HTML - I can't give a definite time frame for that right now, though, as it's going to be lots of detail work (much more than just changing the front page).

though. I also don't know what @Evgeny may already be planning, or doing, in this area.

In the long term, it might also make sense to build a rough "style guide" defining which colours to use where, what size ratios between Logo and text, etc. etc. to achieve a consistent visual interface. If so wanted, I can build the long term basis for that.

Looking forward to your feedback!

I'm in the process of building a custom skin for my Askbot installation at the moment. I was initially planning to do a "spin-off" of that custom skin as a suggestion for a new additional skin for askbot, but as things proceed, it becomes clearer and clearer that the custom skin has so many things unique to that project that a spin-off becomes more and more difficult.

Therefore, I would like to take a different path and propose slight changes to Askbot's current skin as the default skin and design for the askbot.org site. I just had a bit of free time and managed to work out a suggestion. I have come to really like the Askbot robot and propose to make it the official logo. I've added a drop shadowed enlarged text to use next to the robot, underneath it or standalone. Most of the sketch is directly taken from the current stage of askbot.org really and changed slightly in colour and layout.

What do you think? Do you like it?

At the moment, the sketch is a plain PhotoImpact graphics file. If the skin (or parts of it) is liked, I would be ready to work it into HTML - I can't give a definite time frame for that right now, though. I also don't know what @Evgeny may is already be planning, or doing, in this area. At the moment, it's a plain PhotoImpact graphics file.

In the long term, it might also make sense to build a rough "style guide" defining which colours to use where, what size ratios between Logo and text, etc. etc. to achieve a consistent visual interface. If so wanted, I can build the long term basis for that.

Looking forward to interface.

I'll simply wait for your feedback!