Quote from: mannie on March 21, 2014, 06:32:05 AM

Quote from: LimLims on March 21, 2014, 06:06:55 AM

Quote from: mannie on March 21, 2014, 05:57:14 AM

I did, not because I want the bounty, but because I think it would be great to have a better looking website asap with more explanation about why darkcoin is something to get excited about. But now I see from your process above it was probably a waste of time.

Sorry to rant, and I don't mean any disrespect, but it would probably be good to have tasks stepped out by priority so that people aren't doing unnecessary work.

Not at all -- I appreciate your view. I would gladly take an interim design just to help get the new site launched, even if the design isn't final. I would hate to see work wasted.

To clarify -- those bounties were written up some time ago when we had to get a whole bunch of things done quickly and didn't have the luxury of a carefully planned branding & design schedule. My view of how I see our branding evolving to the finalised version is an ideal from a best practices perspective and it may not happen that neatly in practice. So if a really nice WP theme comes along, that might end up informing the logo design (for example). We have to be flexible due to the constraints we're under.

Thanks for clarifying. I guess the view of how this will work is evolving quite quickly. I'm maybe a bit impatient and may be outvoted on this but I think it would be great to have at least a better looking, more informative website up asap. I'm happy to hear you're open to the idea. People are starting to pay attention to DRK. I may not be the best person to do a quick fix website and I'd happily hand over the reins to someone with a better template/stock images.

In my view, the website bounty should be saved for a really good, customised website but I don't see any harm in putting up an interim one. As far as branding goes, the current one seems a few steps behind.

Here is the WP site I put together this morning: http://darkcoinsample.hostoi.com/

LimLims, if you're open to it, I'll give the WP login details to someone better than me to put some finishing touches on an interim website. I think it should be easy to transfer everything over from this sample wordpress to the real one.

The site is coming along nicely! It does look pretty similar to MinCoin https://mincoin.io/, but if it's an interim design I don't think it would be a problem. They have also added a video so they will look different enough.

Before going live with the website I would do two things. I think the logo should be at the top of the page, even it's not going to be the final logo design, it is still the logo that people will see on the exchanges right now. I would also change the green in the image at the top of the image to something more similar to the current logo and then there will be a fairly similar colour scheme running through the site with the blues and the black and white. Maybe something like this:

Others may disagree but I think a logo is important and the green in the top image makes me associate the website with that colour.