Time flies while we're having fun, did you know? We almost two and a half years old.

We [had a discussion](https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/135/what-should-our-site-design-look-like) in late 2013 on the topic, but I think now is a good time for us to ponder again about our site design, now that we finally started to settle in a bit more users. What would you like to see in our site design?

For now let's try to keep things simple. 

If we were to graduate, we would have at least something (but not limited) like the following:

* A super cool new banner (it's been mentioned that we can get an artist do a commision for our banner)
* A fabulous new custom site design
* Awesome icons for our badges
* A super exclusive icon for our community

But let's not stop there! Let's try to do something interesting and unique with our design. While the final decision is up to the folks at Stack Exchange, it doesn't hurt to try to dream a little bigger now does it?

What would be something interesting and unique you ask?

* Maybe a css style that changes with the season or just with the times of day (UTC time). It bit like [Gmail's "Tea House"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P16hgLlnr-o), but we needn't get as complicated (maybe just 3 different states, and not sun/moon tracking).
* Maybe a Google Doodle type interactive banner for our main site?
* Maybe a special gimmick for our "Ask a Question" button
* Maybe a [special mascot character](https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/848/sos-the-great-anime-se-mascot-idol-search) we can "replace" the community bot with?

Whatever ideas you have in mind, not matter how *krazy* (or trivial) it may seem, we'd like to hear it.

As some of you may or may not know, on the site we have a small social media (unofficial, i.e., unaffliated with ) community for promoting our site on [Facebook](http://fbl.me/animese) and [Google+](http://goo.gl/jcdBXF). For that community we adopted [a logo](https://anime.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/426/what-should-our-unofficial-community-name-and-logo-or-mascot-be) that we used to cross promote our site. 

Before you go off on your own trying to make things, note that this is simply an information gathering session to get a better idea of what you'd like to see our site as once it's graduated. Try to keep things simple, but not too abstract. Any concept art and sketches are welcome nonetheless.

Some points (all optional) to consider writing about are:

* What is the first thing you want users to see when they visit out site?
	+ What should the color scheme be like?
	+ What subject do you want the cool banner to be of?
* What do you want our badge icons to look like? (Try to keep the design simple something too detailed might not transfer over well when shrunken down)
* What about other icons and element? (E.g., for our answered question element theme, we can have it looks like a stamped signature, like how [Yahoo Japan Chiebukuro](https://i.stack.imgur.com/reSI3.png) does for their Q&A site)
* Notes or comments on a logo design or color scheme
* Should we have a mascot? If so, if not, why?
* Any other points you wish to discuss (e.g., special theme for our chat room)

Let us know what you'd like to see when we graduate! Remember! Only with our combined efforts as a community can we truly grow. I look forward to hearing about what you guys have in mind for our site and community.

*Some Personal Remarks:* I don't think we should stick with a particular anime or manga as part of the theme, unless we can get a well-known (or decently renowned) manga/anime artist or illustrator to do a comission centerpiece for our site. Something like that would be a nice to have, but we'd probably need to get in contact with them to see if they are willing and have availability. It's something I'd like to do if possible, but that ultimately is a discussion for another time. Maybe we can find someone on Pixiv if we can't get a real pro to do it?