there was mention in another post of this being a Photoshop design? Does it have to be PSD? Could it be a PNG (for Fireworks users)? Let keep it open to all, not limit ourselves.

EDIT: just saw this....Flexible and valid XHTML & CSS code.
Sorry for opening my big trap to quickly.

To be more clear on the deadline, It's December 28th 12 AM GMT
A means of submitting your designs will be added shortly.
Get to work guys

good thinking luka, lets get the ideas flying.

i'm using a 160px by 120px thumbnail on http://beta.wpdesign.org and they look OK but maybe they are too big for here?

The site could be organized in such way so that admins don't have to work on the site all the time. Instead, community generated content is regularly posted and the site is always fresh.

thats exactly what i am doing/have done with beta.wpdesign.org. if you sign-up there you can upload a design and its visable immediately. right now a thumbnail named screenshot.jpg at 160 by 120 has to be in the root for it to display properly but an auto thumb generator is possible.

i am going to dedicate quite a bit of time to it in the next few weeks so we'll see what happens :)

I was thinking a general 3 column design, the 3 column layout will be the same in all pages, though the content will change, so adding different types of demo content is good.

Do we have a preferred colours scheme or is that open as well? And what happens to the logo?

I think the colour scheme is completely open to your freedom and ideas :)

I think the more freedom all the designers have the better. Are designers limited to just one submission. As it might be cool if we have more designs to vote on. again I'm just a non designer voicing opinion (again) this forum is really evolving its really cool. Good luck everyone I'm excited to see everyones submissions.

My thoughts on a structure of our new site, feel free to add/remove:

Design downloads:
- XHTML/CSS templates
- CMS themes
- Graphic design maybe, etc.
+ Search and sort
Forum
Articles, written by members of the community
+ Tutorials
Resources - CSS hacks, layouts, links, useful stuff generally
F.A.Q.

The main page:

Latest designs, the more the better
Design of the week - at the end of each week, we can vote it from the designs submitted that week, and it will show on the front page for the next week, or if that's too long, for 3 days or so.
Latest forum threads
Featured article
A Designer blog maybe...
An Open blog maybe...

No, I was thinking of the open blog like a way to share what's on your mind, or something that you found on the web, kinda like the Designer link blog on OSWD, but updated by members, and the articles a separate section where you can write an article about different subjects, you know, share your knowledge with others, like on Attackr. A, and maybe a Tutorials sub-section too...

Edit: I love having an edit feature.

The blog network will be a way of promoting your blog. You will submit your RSS feed, and the latest posts from your blog will show on the site.

For the tutorials I think we could have a Wiki section where all registered users will be able to post content, and build it up into a large database as such of user submitted tutorials, maybe?

There are a few plus and minuses to having a Wiki.

The biggest issue I see is quality control. Because anyone can edit them at any time, there is always people who mess with them or delete information. I've seen this happen with wikipedia.

Now if we had moderators and people handling quality control, then it could work but having the ability to edit and have that information show up live on the fly could open a can of worms, not saying it would happen but I want to toss that out there.

The plus side to a wiki is the obvious, it's something people can add to... so I think if the issue of moderation/quality control can be addressed, it might be a good idea.

Thoughts?

I think, adding a small moderator team to just the wiki, would be the way to go. By doing that, then you could set it up, so all new/edited content has to be approved before it goes live. Just my 2 cents. ;)

I'm sure some sort of simple approval system can be used. Once an article/tutorial is sumbitted, it goes on hold until approval. Once and admin/mod give it the ok, it's published. Piece of cake. I use a similar feature on OWDLinx.org. Once someone submits the URL to their link page, it's on hold until it's verified that they are using the OWDLinX script.

I was also thinking, and shouldn't be hard to do. But some sort of "digg" like feature. Where the community could vote design's up and down. That kind of thing, would probablly work well later on with tutorials, and if the whole blog network rss feed system gets put in place, work with that as well.

Just brainstorming. :)

I like your idea, jrochman

I definitely think it should be listed by on the page with the individual template. Something like "Also available for: CMS1, CMS2, CMS3." But I think this site should host those ported templates, and the links would just link to the ported template on opendesign.com.

ok by me but I'm only a non-designer voter.

Hi jan, nice to see you found you way over to the new site. you can start uploading your designs

Good luck with your movig! When you get settled down, be sure to upload all of your designs

Posted By: seanrox
What does everyone think about changing the deadline to December 15, 2006, then start the voting so we can launch the new design for January 1, 2007?

Great idea....gives time for voting and porting it to a WP template. And we can have a "Grand Re-Opening"

That would be better, because the public won't be checking the code for semantic-ness, whereas the three web celebs will be able to analyse the code in detail, as well as visual appearance. The designer should also have to agree to write more code, if necessary.

Agreed with Bob, if the design is amazing, who cares about the code? We can adjust the code to perfectly formed valid semantic XHTML very easily, so if the design is great, it's no big deal to fix up some code!