The Development team has been quietly rolling out a bunch of new improvements to The Rookies platform. We have overhauled the homepage, created some flashy new one-page profiles and even redone our About Us page so it actually makes a sense.
The Development team has been quietly rolling out a bunch of new improvements to The Rookies platform. We have overhauled the homepage, created some flashy new one-page profiles and even redone our About Us page so it actually makes a sense.
In all honesty, when we first designed our homepage, we basically did the same as every other art community website at the time and showed the most recent projects. Lately, it really started to annoy us. The page didn't add any real value which is why we have released a new one.
The new homepage has been broken down into these main section:
Take a moment and head across there now and take a look.
Halloween medusa yonlee
While we had our design hats on, we thought it would be a good idea to take a look at member Profile Pages. Once again, I feel we followed suit and took design inspiration from other community platforms when we originally built our site.
Before we overhauled the pages, we put it to a vote with our members about what they wanted to see. The votes came in with a whopping 98% winning poll asking us to convert the pages to a single page.
After a few good rounds with our team internally, we have released what we believe is a stunning profile page that any digital artist would be proud of. Take a look at a few of these examples.
The pages have been designed to really showcase a member journey. Showing to the world where they are going, what industries they are interested in, and displaying their projects and entries is a beautiful grid layout. Oh, and then there are the badges. Everyone loves to show off a shiny badge. We have loads of new ones getting dropped everyday and pushed out to social media for everyone to see.
Here are a few featured profiles worth checking out:
Laser Pistol Eugene
Stylized Baby Rhino raulmunozdesigner
“Get your hands off my lobby boy!” Kappelen
Young Kong SalahElshehry
Not to be forgotten, we recently overhauled our Discover blog. Not only did it get a fresh, more integrated design, but we leveled it up to a Dedicated Server to really turn up the heat.
The new server is fast, blazing fast, and it needs to be. We get nearly 2MM visitors every month to this area of The Rookies and with over 1000+ articles there is plenty to learn.
Our mission is to create the best online community for digital artists. To do this, we make it a priority for us to listen to you, our members. All development plans are always discussed with our members over on our Discord Server. To make sure your voice counts, join us using this link.