Hello all,
For those who are great at making banners and would like to help me out, please create a unique banner for each section of the site.
1) For example, the front page has its own banner and its color scheme is dark blue.
2) The anime section has its own banner (which have mostly anime characters and the color scheme is light blue).
3) The drama section has mostly asian dramas actors and color scheme is orange or golden
4) The manga section has manga characters and color scheme is purple (yellow for the manga downloads section).
5) The Asian Music Section has asian singers pictures and color scheme is light green.
6) Art studio (still optional, but you get the drift)
Make each banner exactly width: 980 and height: 350 max.
These are the general requirements, but I leave the rest of art creativity to you. Of course, it will be seen by thousands, if not millions, of visitors from around the world so make it presentable, professional and fantastically beautiful.
You can choose from one or more of the sections listed above. If you need images, google them. Use photoshop, fireworks or other drawing applications you want.
Submit it by creating your own topic on this Section and upload or hotlink the banners from photo hosting sites (one I would recommend is DropShots (http://www.dropshots.com/) because it's fast, free and so easy).
I will personally include your name on the Contact Us page for a job well done and well I'll think of the prize later.
Once we have a number of banners in, everyone will vote for their favorite and the winner will automatically replace the banners that you see on top of each page right now.
Quote from: goldlilys on May 02, 2007, 03:17:07 PM
Make each banner exactly width: 980 and height: 350 max.
..... so 6 banners all in all?
Well we would be choosing 6 banners in total. But you only need to do at least one to participate. If you want to do more, then go ahead. Just reply to this topic about which ones you can do and upload the preview for it. Then, we'll vote.
I'm back, suprised, and ready...
hehehehe.
::opens photoshop::
Never really liked that particular banner to begin with...
Well I made one for the anime section. This is so much more fun than studying.... I think I'll make another..
Here it is.....
http://www.dropshots.com/artemisfowl
edit: I uploaded a manga one too! Same addy for both
My entries: http://www.dropshots.com/LTSapphire
New Entries as of July 16th:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/AnimePuppy/banners/bannerfrontII.png)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/AnimePuppy/banners/animebanner.png)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/AnimePuppy/banners/mangabannerII.png)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/AnimePuppy/banners/mangabanner-1.png)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/AnimePuppy/banners/asiandramabanner.png)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/AnimePuppy/banners/asianmusicbanner.png)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/AnimePuppy/banners/artstudiobanner.png)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/AnimePuppy/banners/siteinforbanner.png)
The lack of entries is making me vote early. Since there's only two of you then we'll now choose among what we have so far so I can change the banners on the site. My vote is not final, but will need others opinions as well. So please choose.
Front - LTSapphire
Manga - artemisfowl
Anime - artemisfowl
PS: Entries are still being accepted. The deadline will be the end of July and after that this post will be locked. So keep them coming.
ok... i guess i can make it by the end of july....
Modification on height of banner. Since nothing is final yet, is it possible for you guys to lessen the height from 350 max to 250.
I am currently using a 1280 by 1024 resolution and it only displays 25% on the page, but when viewed in 1024 by 768, it takes up half of the page which is too big for a site. If possible, please lessen the height of the banner to 250. Thanks
Alrighty, I've put up the banner with a height of 250 here: http://www.dropshots.com/artemisfowl
I kept the width the same so they now look a bit weird...but yah...
Working on the banners. Don't close this before I'm done! ^_^
The deadline again is August. Please finish the banners by then and we'll vote.
I edited the forum banner.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/AnimePuppy/banners/glmbanner-1.png)
LTSapphire, did u shorten it to 800 by 200 in purpose or is it photobucket that did that because 800 seems a little too skinny?
I uploaded it onto dropshots as well, there should have the 980*250, I just edited to the recent specifications.
I'll remember to post a link to it next time, I just through the Photobucket image up for display and critism, though I really didn't change anything...
(http://www.geocities.com/mentallysmart12/glmbannerf.png)
Would it be easier if I uploaded everything onto geocities, or does dropshots work?
Hmm, dropshots also lessens the width for some reason. I thought photobucket doesn't but since yours is not correct either, I'm not sure. Anyways, for the winner of the contest, you would have to send me the real files in email or upload all of them in a filehoster and give me the links to it.
Then just try here I suppose: http://www.geocities.com/mentallysmart12/glmbannerf.png
Quote from: pauline5765 on June 26, 2007, 01:05:24 PM
ok... i guess i can make it by the end of july....
Do you still need more time? Since I did say August is the deadline, but wasn't sure if its the end of August, or the beginning of August?
Also, since there are only some of you participating, I'll include more than one of each banners from each person. I'll do a rotation banner like how Esthetique used to do theirs. This way, everyone who worked hard making their banners will be known throughout the site as someone who has done more than just downloading mangas. Hehe, in that case, what kind of prize do you guys want that I am able to grant?
aw....goldlilys...really really sorry T_T
i've been way busy these days at school...
i'll upload the mangas....later... T_T
...sigh...
beginning of august is ok.... the sooner the better...right?
...rotation banner is quite okay... prize....hmm... lol dunno...
I'm pretty much done. I can make more if you'd like, I was stuck on using a theme with all those... Perhaps variation wouldn't hurt.
LT Sapphire, not quite done yet because still need a banner for the Art Studio and Site Info sections.
One with reddish and yellowish theme. For the Art Studio, you can put any art stuff you've done before and Site Info can be pics of Phillipines culture like Fiestas, landmarks or anything beautiful about Philippines. Think of advertising like tour guides so that people will visit Philippines. Gotta make Philippines look good for visitors right.
Pauline, ok I'll give more allowance since I'm kind of busy with work too, but please do get them done as soon as possible.
Thanks again for all your time.
Yes Ma'am. :icon_salut:
My fault! I procrastinated longer than I expected. I'll get to work on the last one.
Can I ask you guys to finish the banners by the end of next week so that I can test it out with the new layout. Send me the real file via gmail. This way, the site will be totally ready after the database maintenance. Thanks all for your participation.
PS: I'll include everyone's banners in the site using a rotation. Make sure that the width and height are EXACTLY 981 x 250. Actually, I may decide to make this proportion a little bit smaller depending on the new layout, but for now please make sure this fits the exact size.
I've been making all of mine 980*250. The border is a solid color so any repeats would be seamless, though if it seems incredibly off I can fix it.
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=5f15a19d8a119b703b55283379035f620de91331532f5e6c
LT Sapphire,
Once you get settled in college and have some time, can you design a new banner for the FORUM. You can choose any of the color themes from above, not just red since most of us are probably getting tired of red now. I know I am :toothy4: Thanks.
I'm on it. 250*981 right?
Oh yah for the forums, it is width = 981 , height = 250. Thanks :cya: