Probably, it makes no sense to talk about what the VKontakte social network is: almost every first one has a page in it. Many people use it very actively and create all kinds of thematic groups uniting like-minded people. How to create a group of “VKontakte” so that it is beautiful, makes it easier to navigate the proposed materials, and just uplifts the mood of visitors? To do this, in addition to the computer, the Internet and an account on this social network, you will need skills to work with graphic editors (for example, Adobe Photoshop) and, in fact, the presence of these editors on your computer.
Now, in order to create a group in VKontakte, you first of all need to create it. To do this, click on the “My Groups” item in the side menu and go to the “Communities” page, where click “Create Community”. In the window that immediately appears, type in the name of your group and click "Create Community". Group created.
Before you create a group "In Contact", you need to configure it. To do this, fill out several information fields on the "First Edit" page and activate the necessary blocks. If you have not yet decided on the settings, then skip this step and return to it a little later by clicking on the "Community Management" link, which is located in the group’s main menu. But, in order to create a beautiful design of the VKontakte group, you must include the Materials block.
The base of attractive design is an avatar and a picture menu. To create them, you need a graphic editor. There are 3 main stages in the design process: the creation and preparation of the necessary images, their direct loading into the indicated group and the creation of a functioning menu using the “In Contact” wiki.
Before you create a group "In Contact", create an avatar in the graphics editor . You can make absolutely any composition for it, but in height it should be less than 800 px (pixels), and in width - no more than 200 px. If you upload a larger image, VKontakte will reduce it anyway.
Next, start creating a menu consisting of several pictures that are closely fitted to each other in such a way that they give the impression of a single whole. With the help of wiki markup, you need to each page to specify a page that should open when you click on it.
To obtain this effect, you need to create in the editor one large and integral picture-menu with a width of no more than 370 px. Select a background, draw buttons on it and write the names of the sections you want on it, then divide this image into parts.
When the menu and avatar are ready, you can start uploading images to the site. To upload an avatar, click "Upload photo." This link is located on the main page of the group. In the process of loading, set the section of the avatar that will serve as an icon. After that, you need to download fragments of the menu into a separate album and begin to assemble it.
To do this, click the “Edit” link, which will appear if you hover over the item “Recent News”. On the page that opens, in the upper field, you need to enter the name of the menu. A large field is provided to introduce wiki markup and create the menu itself or other materials.
How to get the VKontakte group on? The next step is to enter the code for each of the menu fragments according to the following template into the wiki markup field:
[[photo- | <width> x <height> px; noborder; nopadding | http: //vk.com/pages? oid = - & p = <Page_Name>]]
All elements that are enclosed in <angle brackets> are replaced with real values for your menu, where:
- this is the ID (identifier) of the image, it can be seen in the address bar if you click on the desired menu fragment in the album;
<width> and <height> are the numbers of the width and height of the fragment picture;
- ID of the group that you are registering. It can also be seen in the address bar of the menu editing page;
<Page_Name> - the text of the name of the page that the button will point to in the future. Each space in the title must be replaced by a lower dash.
You can find out more about wiki markup by clicking on the link on the editing page with the link “Markup help”. Also, in order to create a beautiful group design, you can use text formatting, spoilers, tables that can be created using wiki markup.