Logo Opinions.

[gengar003]

I guess that's an OK subject... anyway, assuming I have a matching medium-dark blue style to match, what do you think of this header image?

My main questions are:
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Does it look ok?
what font should the title be?
I also want the word "FORUMS" underneath the title, where should it go?
should be buttons be as they are, and be made into an image map,
or should they be Text in a seperate table cell
Are the buttons good colors?
My forum is a (small) anime forum, should I put some pics on the banner?
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*whew* That's a lot of q's...

As people have been commenting, I've been changing it and making it better, here's the ones that've been made so far:

version 1 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?s=&postid=387433)
version 2 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?s=&postid=387838)
version 3 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?s=&postid=387966)
version 4 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?s=&postid=387976)
version 5 (http://pgsforum.com/vb/bigbluemama.html)

[Xenon]

i like th logo itself, but the font isn't nice and also it's too big in my eyes.
reduce the fontsize i'd say :)

[Razor]

1. It looks ok. But not much more than that.

2. Depends on what you like.

3. I prefer it next to the "home" button on a forum.

4. Once again, depends on what you like.

5. The color is fine.

6. Yes. It's too plain as it is now.

[Dean C]

Ok firstly i'd say it looks too simple. I'd add a series of 1's and 0's in 5pt in a pixel font and make it smooth and add this in a few places in the banner. Also the font in the nav is far too big and also you could make your life a lot easier if you used a simple font like arial and verdana as then you wouldn't have to edit the psd to add another link :) - and there's the task of making an image map or slicing the image all over again lol

- miSt

[gengar003]

That's a GREAT Idea, miSt, but I CANNOT, for the LIFE of me, figure out how to get the font that your name is in your avatar....

Also, I don't get what u mean about using Arial or Veradna... It's still an image. Or do you mean that I make a seperate cell for the links?

Anyway, if you could help me with the font thing, I'd add that in, but I've added some stuff, made it a little more "active"

Also, there's a blank blue area above the "Forums" in the upper left, and I can't decide to do something like the 0's and 1's, another images, some spikes, lines, etc... but I do think it should be filled in with something bland and "background-ish"

Here's the newer version (That still needs 1's and 0's in the impossible-for-me-to-find pixel font)

Also, as a .gif, the gradient is kinda wierd, but that allows for transparency... should I scrap transparent in favor of nicer-looking gradient?

[Dean C]

Well it certainly looks a lot better. I'd use a more high-tech font for your forumname and lower the bevel on it :) Perhaps try duplicating the layer in a lighter color and then putting it behind the existing text and moving it about 4 px down and to the right :)

Also i'd move the text for the nav bar with less spacing and centered slightly more. It seems to close to the curved edges :)

The font in my avatar is 04_9B :) But i'd use 04_8B for the 1's and 0's :)

- miSt

[gengar003]

I don't have the font 04_8B... Where can I get it?

Anyway, I agree with lowering the bevel, now that u mention it.

Here's the new one, with a sligtly more "technical" font.

[Dean C]

Get all the groovy pixel fonts from here ;):

http://www.dsg4.com/04/extra/bitmap/index.html

Also that's not a very nice font still. I'd try using something such as neuropol, xenotron or samba is dead. I got those fonts from either www.1001fonts.com or www.fontfreak.com :)

But keep going - you're definately getting there :)

- miSt

[gengar003]

:) I found the 04_8 and neuropol, but couldn't find xenotron or samba is dead at either of those two sites..

Anyway, I added in some 1's an 0's, and redid the nav bar, I think it looks much better.

Do you think there should be rollovers on the nav bar? I'm thinking yes, and have the silver deepen to a silvery blue...

[Dean C]

No drop the buttons....

It looks like they've just been plonked on there for no reason hehe :)

Also trying using neuropol for "The Anime Corner" text :)

- miSt

[gengar003]

Today at 06:16 PM Mist said this in Post #10 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=387968#post387968)
No drop the buttons....

It looks like they've just been plonked on there for no reason hehe :)

Also trying using neuropol for "The Anime Corner" text :)

- miSt


Lol, I forgot about Neuropol text, but I kinda like the buttons...

[gengar003]

Okay, Used neurpol for forum name, and I added a bevel... I personally think that it raises the banner just enough to fit in with the buttons... I added an adjustment layer, made them a little bluer. On rollover, they'd go back 2 silver, making them stand out...

[gengar003]

Ya gotta admit, the last one looked nice. Now, check out THIS one:

The Best Yet (http://pgsforum.com/vb/bigbluemama.html)

However, I'd prefer to have used javascript to put a blue filter on the buttons, then take it off on mouseover, but I don't know how... help?

[Dean C]

Well the neuropol font makes it look far better but i don't like the bevel or the buttons - there's no need for them realy :)

Also never use imageready to do the html code. Just use the slices it makes as the html in that example is SO shabby. Unquoted attributes and rowspan and colspan should never be used as they are highly uncompatible with certain browsers etc :)

- miSt

- miSt

[Xenon]

Hmm, i like the logo, nice buttons i think

[Genocide]

Yo... how in the hell do you get those buttons to light up... is there a mod for that... please tell me

[gengar003]

Lol, It uses javascript, which i could post here, but do you have imageready? Probly not, or you'd have known this, anyway, here's the code...



<a href="javascript://"

onMouseOut="document.images.pic1.src='http://pgsforum.com/vb/images/0stars.gif'"



change the "http://pgsforum.com/vb/images/0stars.gif" to the url of whatever the image will loook like normally.

also, change the "Javascript://" to the Url of the page you want the button to link to.

onMouseOver="document.images.pic1.src='http://pgsforum.com/vb/images/5stars.gif'">



this time, change the url of the image to the "over" state. (what it looks like when they put the pointer on it.


<img src="http://pgsforum.com/vb/images/0stars.gif" name="pic1" border=0">



change the image src to whatever your pic would normally be.

and when you put it all together, you get:



<a href="javascript://"onMouseOut="document.images.pic1.src='http://pgsforum.com/vb/images/0stars.gif'"
onMouseOver="document.images.pic1.src='http://pgsforum.com/vb/images/5stars.gif'"> <img src="http://

pgsforum.com/vb/images/0stars.gif" name="pic1" border=0">




DEMO: http://pgsforum.com/rollover.html

Note that this in in HTML code.

Also, you will want to put this code between the <head> </head> tags on your page, and may also want to put the code like this:

<head>
<script language="javascript">

// the code....

</script>
</head>

Hope that helped!

[Genocide]

Yeah I have image ready 7.0
but how exactly do you get buttons to light up on that?
I can make it animate and stuff but I dont know how to use java on it

[gengar003]

I'll PM you.

[Dean C]

I wrote a template mod for this ;)

vBrollovers :)

- miSt

[gengar003]

Does your template mod, by chance, include javascript? Lol, bsides, he asked for imgready 7 instructions... I own IR7 :)

[gengar003]

Okay, here it is:

http://pgsforum.imbri.com/tutorials/ir7rollover/tut.html

[Dean C]

Yes it does use javascript :p

- miSt

[gengar003]

lol okies then. ;)