Redesign the Homepage (Good Morning Friday)

Eeeee, thanks for the congrats~ *warm and fuzzy feelings, begin!* I'm sure the old man would be thrilled :D The other entries were totally awesome and I'm flattered that our entry was able to stand the competition :U

And the new contest sounds awesome, I'm glad Kat left us something fun to work on (: I love how it's a chance for the whole community to participate, even if they aren't very artistic or what. I hope lots of people submit some more great entries (@Grovyle: yours is the only one I've seen so far and it looks lovely 8D). I'll be sure to enter once I get some ideas.

What are the limits of the homepage redesign? Am I constrained to make layouts that are consistent to Route 50's current layout, or I can make the homepage a completely different page?
Or even, make it personalizable?

I also want put some introductions to newcomers to persuade them to register.

SHiNKiROU: I think it has to fit in with the current site layout, but other than that you can do whatever you want with it!

That means I can't remove the top header and the "Logged in as" bar?

No, we kind of need those.

Though, I guess you could submit an entry that has them removed. Kat might like it, who knows.

Congrats winners - all the entries were great :D

Homepage redesign contest? I LOVE YOU, RT50 ADMINS. :D
I think I'll enter! It sounds fun, and a new homepage, even if it's not mine, would be nice.
When's the deadline? Either it's not mentioned or I'm an inobservant, lazy bum. :B

What's the deadline? Is it determined by how many existing entries are there?
Because I can't endure too long in a contest and I'm planning to make my second submission.

Also, can we introduce coding changes (new features like search and presentation of existing data) and database refactoring (like new user preference keys)?

I'm setting the deadline to two weeks from yesterday (August 21)