Sam
TS Member
Hey!
Firstly, sorry for that rubbish topic title. I really couldn't think of any better way of putting it.
What this is about is special decorations for the forum at certain times of the year, celebrating special events, people or days. Also, 'one-off' events such as new ride openings and the Olympics.
Like Google does with its 'Google Doodles', I think it's a really cool idea to decorate the site differently as often as possible. It helps keep the site feeling fresh, updated and fun.
I know TTF used to do this for Easter, Halloween and Christmas, as well as a few others, such as the countdown to the opening of Sub-Terra. That was all awesome, but I hope we see a lot more of it on the new site.
It doesn't have to be huge - some things like Halloween probably deserve a full-scale redecoration, but smaller things might just deserve a bit of text next to the logo for that day, where it currently says "Congratulations to Adam..."
I was hoping that the forum community might help contribute to a calendar of ideas for this sort of thing, which the team can use if they so wish. Post your suggestions below, and I'll add them onto the calendar for team consideration!
Got any ideas to add? I tried to find out John Wardley's birthday, but it is nowhere to be found! Maybe the community could use the talents of the other finalists in the logo competition to create special graphics throughout the year!
Thoughts?
Firstly, sorry for that rubbish topic title. I really couldn't think of any better way of putting it.
What this is about is special decorations for the forum at certain times of the year, celebrating special events, people or days. Also, 'one-off' events such as new ride openings and the Olympics.
Like Google does with its 'Google Doodles', I think it's a really cool idea to decorate the site differently as often as possible. It helps keep the site feeling fresh, updated and fun.
I know TTF used to do this for Easter, Halloween and Christmas, as well as a few others, such as the countdown to the opening of Sub-Terra. That was all awesome, but I hope we see a lot more of it on the new site.
It doesn't have to be huge - some things like Halloween probably deserve a full-scale redecoration, but smaller things might just deserve a bit of text next to the logo for that day, where it currently says "Congratulations to Adam..."
I was hoping that the forum community might help contribute to a calendar of ideas for this sort of thing, which the team can use if they so wish. Post your suggestions below, and I'll add them onto the calendar for team consideration!
- January 1st - New Year's Day
- February - LGBT History Month (maybe a subtle rainbow somewhere, since we have so many LGBT members?)
- February 10th (just 2013) - Chinese New Year
- March 14th - Oblivion opening date
- March 16th - Nemesis/Air opening date
- March 20th - Th13teen opening date
- March 27th - Spinball opening date
- April - Easter
- April 1st - Rita opening date
- April 4th - Alton Towers opening date
- October 12th - Roland Mack's birthday
- June 11th - TowersStreet opening date!
- June 15th - Edvard Grieg's birthday
- July 8th - Anton Schwarzkopf's birthday
- July 27th-12th August (just this year) - London 2012 Olympics
- August 18/19/20 (just this year) - Happy Eid!
- August 22nd - Werner Stengel's birthday
- October/November - Halloween/Scarefest
- November 9th - Last day of the Corkscrew
- November 12th-16th (just this year) - IAAPA
- December - Christmas
- December 5th - Walt Disney's birthday
- December 8th-16th (just this year) - Happy Hanukkah!
- December 31st - New Year's Eve
Got any ideas to add? I tried to find out John Wardley's birthday, but it is nowhere to be found! Maybe the community could use the talents of the other finalists in the logo competition to create special graphics throughout the year!
Thoughts?