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[truebluefan]

Hey!

Do you have time to make signatures for posters?

What about avatars?

If we need GFX for the site, how many of you have the time and willingness to help out?

 

[DP]

The biggest thing any community or organization needs is a brand. We have SportsTwo, For Sports Fans by Sports Fans. That alright, but now we need to add a consistent design style to that. Same colors for anything related to SportsTwo, same logo with alternative similar logos. If an overall skinning and redesign of the forum will occur, we need a team with the same materials, aka hex codes and texts. If its for signatures and avatars for players and teams, then stick with the "brand" of the team.

 

[Denny Crane]

^^^ yep

and I think it will take a team (volunteers welcome!).

There's so many forums to skin...

 

[DP]

I basically have all the NHL banners. I'm not sure if any side smaller images are needed for them. Its very easy to do... I used this website

 

[Denny Crane]

Do they fit the scheme for the banners already up? That is, two pieces... one is one pixel wide and 90px (I think) tall that gets stretched as the browser is expanded. The other is the logo in the center.

 

[DP]

I have the logo part done, not sure what you mean for the other part.

 

[Denny Crane]

Look at the top banner on this page.

The blue that goes across the whole thing. That's 1 pixel wide and 90px tall. It's repeated as many times as it takes to fill the width of the browser. There's a graphic on top of it in the center that says "SportsTwo (logo) for sports fans by sports fans"

The sportstwo graphic was done so it antialiases (and whatever other effects) on top of the repeated 1pixel wide one perfectly.

 

[Denny Crane]

The 1 pixel wide one is repeated using HTML and CSS. It's automatic.

The banners were done this way so you can make the browser really wide and it works, or you can shrink it narrow and it works.

 

[Denny Crane]

One more thing, the powered by sportstwo is already done, and it's the same one used on every banner. It's a 3rd graphic.

 

[DP]

Oh, thats easy. Lol. I remember seeing those somewhere in the files you gave me.

 

[Denny Crane]

Sweet.

To be technical...

the banner is done as an HTML table with three columns, 33% width each. Using 33% makes it expand.

The table has CSS style background: blue url(/img/1pixelwide.jpg) x-repeat;

Column 1 has the powered by sportstwo, text-align: bottom

Column 2 has the sportstwo logo, centered

Column 3 has nothing in it, but it's needed to keep column 2 in the center.

 

[truebluefan]

The biggest thing any community or organization needs is a brand. We have SportsTwo, For Sports Fans by Sports Fans. That alright, but now we need to add a consistent design style to that. Same colors for anything related to SportsTwo, same logo with alternative similar logos. If an overall skinning and redesign of the forum will occur, we need a team with the same materials, aka hex codes and texts. If its for signatures and avatars for players and teams, then stick with the "brand" of the team.

Very nice!

 

[DP]

Very nice!

Its my future career, man. Gotta know this shit.

 

[DP]

So I have the NHL banners close to being complete. I did the filler images to. But the left image is difficult. Theres no template to go off of to make it. Do you have one with every color already? I'm pretty sure you can use the ones from the NBA. Bulls for red... Celtics for green... Knicks for blue... Kings for purple... The only problem are some of the other colors I made up.. Orange, Black and Gold.

 

[Denny Crane]

I gave you the URL to download all the graphics, including the .PSD files. Is what you need not there?

 

[DP]

I found a way to get past it.. Do you have the NFL banners? Cause I have them and I didn't make them.. I take it you didn't put them up yet?

 

[DP]

How do you want me to send the NHL banners, side fillers and left column images to you? Email will take FOREVER... 120 files...

 

[Denny Crane]

Zip them up and upload them somewhere where I can get them by URL.

 

[DP]

The thing is I don't want others to get the PSD's. Should I just take the PSD's out and send you the JPEG's?

 

[Denny Crane]

oh yeah...

If you could get the Oregon Ducks forum done, it'd make a few people happy.

 

[Denny Crane]

The thing is I don't want others to get the PSD's. Should I just take the PSD's out and send you the JPEG's?

Yeah, I need 2 images per forum, the background and the image that goes on top of it.

You could email the psds one per email or whatever

 

[DP]

What do you mean by "background" and "the image that goes on top of it"... For example I have the Blackhawks.. Red background with logo and text all in one image.

 

[Denny Crane]

Sweet.

To be technical...

the banner is done as an HTML table with three columns, 33% width each. Using 33% makes it expand.

The table has CSS style background: blue url(/img/1pixelwide.jpg) x-repeat;

Column 1 has the powered by sportstwo, text-align: bottom

Column 2 has the sportstwo logo, centered

Column 3 has nothing in it, but it's needed to keep column 2 in the center.

The banner is made of 3 images.

One is 1 pixel wide. I need that one. I use HTML and CSS to stretch it across the width of the page automagically.

The other is just the center bit, like this one:

The center bit was rendered in the paint program on top of the gradient (1 pixel wide) one so it antialiases properly.

The gradient image looks like this for the blue skin:

The third is "powered by sportstwo" which is already done. I don't need you to make that. Just the two per forum as described here.

 

[DP]

Okay just clearifying.. Sorry if I'm making you repeat yourself.. I'm a visual person, not one who understands words that well..

 

[Denny Crane]

http://sportstwo.com/forums/185-NFL-General

This forum has no banner because one was never made. Similarly, we need a general purpose NBA one and NHL one, etc.

 

[speeds]

I can help out here and there with some graphics work, I'm no pro but I can use PS a little.

 

[Denny Crane]

I can help out here and there with some graphics work, I'm no pro but I can use PS a little.

Do you understand the requirements to make a banner?

Combat Sports have needed banners forever...

 

[Denny Crane]

NFL Forums are skinned. Took me like 4+ hours.

 

[speeds]

Do you understand the requirements to make a banner?

Combat Sports have needed banners forever...

Yeah I get it, I think.

 

[speeds]

How's this?

Figuring we'd use a black-red-white scheme since that is more or less the official scheme of MMA....