The VKontakte groups are communities of users of social network or representative office of the different organizations and the companies. They help the organizations to extend news, to give support to clients and employees, to notify on actions and actions and also to solve different problems. Beautifully issued group facilitates navigation on materials and lightens the mood of visitors.
It is required to you
- The computer, the Internet, the account on social network "VKontakte", Adobe Photoshop or other graphics editor with necessary functionality, basic skills of work with Photoshop'om.
Instruction
1. First of all, create new group if you do not have it yet. For this purpose, having clicked the My Groups point in the side menu, pass to the page of "Community". Here click the link "Create Community". In the appeared window enter the name of group and click "Create Community". On it creation of group is finished.
2. Now just created group needs to be configured. For this purpose fill information fields on the page of "The first editing" and turn on blocks necessary for you. If you did not decide on settings yet, then can pass this step and return to them later, having clicked the link "Management of Community" located in the main menu of group. But for creation of beautiful design surely turn on the Materials block.
3. The base of beautiful design of group is its avatar and the menu picture. For their creation you will need Photoshop or other graphics editor. In the course of creation of design three main stages are selected: creation and preparation of the necessary images, their loading in group and creation of the working menu by means of a viki-marking of VKontakte. Respectively, begin design with start of Photoshop'a and creation of an avatar.
4. For an avatar you can create any composition, but its height should be less 800px (pixels), and width not to exceed 200px. VKontakte will reduce images of the bigger size when loading.
5. Further create the menu. The menu of the VKontakte group consists of several pictures closely adjusted to each other so that it seems that they form a whole. By means of a viki-marking to each separate picture the page which should be open when clicking it is set.
6. To achieve such effect, at first create in the editor one big picture menu entirely. It should not be wider 370px. Pick up a background, draw on it buttons and sign them with names of sections necessary to you. And then separate this image into separate parts.
7. When the menu and an avatar are ready, start loading of images on the website. For loading of an avatar click the link "Load the Photo" located on the homepage of group. During the load set the section of an avatar which will be a group icon. Then load fragments of the menu into a separate album and start its assembly.
8. For assembly of the menu click the link "Edit" appearing when aiming an arrow at the Latest news point. In a top margin, the opened page, enter a menu name. The big field is intended for input of a viki-marking and creation of the menu or other materials.
9. Enter in the data entry field of a viki-marking the code for each fragment of the menu on such template:
[[photo-<XXX_YYY>|<ширина>x<высота>px;noborder;nopadding|http://vk.com/pages?oid=-<XXX>&p=<Название_страницы>]]
There are all elements concluded in <angular brackets> it is necessary to replace with real values for your menu:
<XXX-YYY> is ID of the image at which it is possible to look in an address bar, having clicked the necessary fragment of the menu in an album.
<width> and <height> - width and height of the picture fragment.
<XXX> - ID of the made-out group. It is possible to look at it directly in an address bar of the page of editing the menu.
<Nazvaniye_stranitsa> - the name of the page which the button will indicate. All spaces in the name should be replaced with an interlinear dash.
You can obtain detailed information on a viki-marking, having clicked the link on the page of editing – "The help with a marking".