Sørlanet needs a new themed website design - extended!

Sørlanet

Sørlanet is a non-profit youth organization. On our website we publish news and information about our event, show off our sponsors and link to our Facebook site and ticket sale. Our target audience is 13-25 year olds interested in computers and gaming.

Our event is a computer party taking place during the autumn holidays. It lasts for three days and has around 800 participants + visitors. Participants compete against each other in various games, e.g. StarCraft, League of Legends and CounterStrike.

http://www.sorlanet.no (temporary landing site) and http://www.sorlanet.no/2012 (old website)

We want to revamp our existing graphic profile and incorporate this year's theme: four seasons. We wound like a secondary logo and/or graphic concept to represent the theme. Perhaps a concept with one colour for each season (example: spring is green, summer is yellow, autumn is red, winter is white or blue). We hope to use elements from the design when decorating the venue.

Front page:
* Two columns for news + possibility for one article to span both columns. News will have a picture, a headline and an introduction on the front page. An elegant solution for news without pictures will be appreciated.
* Column for sponsors, one to three static main sponsors + five alternating logos
* News ticker (see example under inspirational websites)

News article / information:
* Optional picture
* Headline, introduction, body
* Byline (no picture)
* Time and date of posting/updating
* Column for sponsors, one to three static main sponsors + five alternating logos

Visual clutter, guns or violence, endless scrolling to see all the sponsors (last year we had 16)

The fonts we use today are Neo Sans Bold, Helvetica Neue Regular and Arial Regular