New Look For Indymedia

national | indymedia ireland | news report Tuesday November 25, 2003 14:38 by Vinnie - Indymedia Ireland Tech Group

Graphic Designers Needed

As you may have noticed by now, Indymedia has a new look and feel. We hope you like it and if you spot any problems or have any comments please let us know through the contact form. The latest version of the software will be available for download within the week.

As well as the obvious change in the look of the site, it now has further customisation/localisation so that each topic or region or combination thereof can have its own banner logo and colour scheme.

At the moment however none of these custom banners are configured and thats why we need the help of any budding graphic designers out there. What we want are people to design banner logos for individual topics and regions and combinations thereof eg A Galway banner, An Environment banner, and a Galway Environment banner. All combinations are not necessary but the more the merrier. We will extrapolate an appropriate colour scheme if deemed necessary from any banners submitted. Using county colours may be a good idea but don't feel constrained by them if you have other ideas.

The guidelines for submitting graphics are as follows:

1. All submissions should be sent in a zip file to [email protected]
2. Preferred format is a multi layered psd file, which will enable us alter it slightly if required. gifs, pngs or jpgs will be accepted also.
3. Images must have the following dimensions - width 418 pixels height 60 pixels. The width may may vary slightly if required but the height may not.
4. Preferably the images should fade to white on left hand side unless you have a good reason for not doing so.
5. Images must contain in words some reference to the region or topic its related to unless you have a good reason for not doing so.
6. Images must be politically neutral where possible. Images may not contain party logos or slogans or symbols espousing any particular political ideologies.
7. The decision to use an image is entirely at the discretion of the editorial mailing list (which you can join)
8. Please do not be offended if your image is not used, as the choice will be a matter of aesthetics which can vary widely from person to person, so don't take it personally.