Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-4356266-20130526173253

Just on a whim, and with lots of contests going around, I thought why not a contest for the wiki as well?

So here we go, the wiki background contest! It's time to show your extra-parodying skills at photoshopping, or otherwise designing great graphics for the wiki! We'll give you complete freedom to design it however you like while adhering to the wiki's dark colour scheme. And if you want to you can specify the opacity of the content area, design the wiki wordmark (Wiki-wordmark.png) and also the header background (currently set to this file).

Details
Here are the technical details:
 * Theme: anything that dresses well with the wiki's dark colour scheme


 * Dimensions
 * Content area:1030px wide, with some space at the top from the Wikia blue ribbon


 * Background area: infinite in both directions from the content area


 * File format: jpg, png, gif


 * File size: Under 150kb. Winning entries with file sizes larger than this will be compressed, possibly degrading the final quality.


 * Other
 * You can make tiling background images
 * You can specify the background colour to cover the rest of the background
 * You can specify that the content area should be translucent - useful to partly show the background that lies underneath


 * You can submit a wiki wordmark with the following specs:


 * File format: png (transparency supported)


 * Dimensions: 250px x 65 px max


 * Prominently displays "Hitler Parody Wiki"


 * You can submit a graphic for the header with the following specs:


 * Dimensions: 1300px by 95px


 * File size:under 50kb

Submissions
Submissions can be made by replying to this thread and adding the submission background (and the optional wiki wordmark and header background) to your post.

Submissions end on 9 June 2013.

Winner selection
Thread replies with the most kudos (wikia's thumbs-up equivalent) will be selected as winner. Selection is on 16 June 2013 (i.e. we'll count the kudos on that date).

The background will be featured until the next seasonal event comes (most likely Halloween).

Tips

 * For non-tiling backgrounds, place the main part of the graphics as close to the content area as possible.
 * For non-tiling backgrounds, design it so that it fade around to a background colour. Read this help page for more information.

More info

 * User_blog:Eric!/The Wikia Grid layout.
 * Help on making gradient backgrounds that fade to the sides

 