Rider4Z wrote:that'd cause a lot more work for staff, but i think that is an excellent suggestion.
Maybe next year something could be done where we have to submit two/thee preview images: one of the plain logo and the other one/two of a cropped mockup of the areas the logo will appear on the main site page and the forums with the logo inserted. Just provide the cropped file(s) for download as JPEGs or whatever. That way we'd still get the quick preview grid layout of all the logos when the voting starts, but if one wanted to check out a few of one's favorites before nominating them, one would get to see them in their natural environments, as it were. Then, in the final round, the logos could be put on informal mockups so we can see them as they would really appear on the site.
Maybe doing all this in the first round is overkill, but if nothing else it would probably force logo creators to be more realistic with their designs. They'd be able to see (one would hope) if a logo was completely oversized, undersized, off-color or overly detailed when they created their page-specific preview images. I test my logos against the site pages so I know they don't fail logistically, but I have a feeling a lot of other people don't
(then again, I don't "do" Web design, so maybe they totally DO fail, hehe, I know one of them is pushing it).jasper-isis wrote:I could do some informal mockups for the final round, sure. Donno if we can automate it for the nominations round though. I think you (DriftRoot) were the only one who used a transparent background on your preview image.

Really? I thought I properly flattened all of the little buggers. Sorry.

Or do you mean, the original logo file has transparency, because if that's the case then I'm definitely guilty. ^_^
Informal mockups would be absolutely fantastic for the final round. Wooo!!
