icedawg
10-10-2005, 10:55 AM
Howdy,
I'm trying to get us a new banner to rest atop both the forum and the site's main index page. Currently I've become interested in a flash solution, to help spiffy things up a bit more here. So far, Tornado Joe has done up one (which you can see here (http://www.dreamviews.com/banner/DVbanner.html)) and from that I got the idea of having two different banners: one that would appear during the daylight hours, and the other during the evening hours.
Anyway, I was thinking I might use Tornado Joe's submission for the nighttime banner, with perhaps a couple changes (like maybe the fonts). I'm looking for someone interested in doing up a daytime banner for us; please note, it has to be professional looking. What I would like to see is our logo 'Dream Views' with scrolling clouds both moving behind and in front of the logo, perhaps with the current mountain scene in the background that we have now (or something similar or better). Regardless, I'd want both the daytime and nighttime banners to use the same scene...so if we're going to change the scene that's fine, but it'll obviously involve some work. To give you just a basic idea of the "cloud scrolling" idea, take a look at this little movie from a super nintendo game (it's about 3MB to download): http://www.dreamviews.com/banner/lagoon_clouds.avi. Note that in this movie the clouds don't move in front of the logo, but I'd like to see that as well.
If anyone is interested in helping that would be awesome. Just join the 'Art Team' and post in the thread entitled 'New banner development.'
There would be some text changes between the banners for the main site and the forum (one would say 'lucid dreaming forum' below the logo; the other would not). Also, 'Ex Nine' gave me an idea of a motto for the site: "Staying up all night"; I liked it so I put it up on the main site's index. I think that could be included in the flash above the main site.
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A couple other projects I'd like to start, if anyone is interested, include designing a collapsible menu for the forum that would present links to all of the sections of the main site. In this way, I hope to further merge the forum with the main site, which is currently I feel too remote. Basically a little icon or link or whatnot would be present just below the current silver-bar menu above the forum, and hovering over it would cause a menu to scroll down or appear in some manner. I'd like to see it in flash, but am open to other ideas. If anyone is interested in that, please let me know (or join the art team and start a new thread).
hrm. I thought I had another idea, but can't think of it currently. Anyway, thanks for reading this.
I'm trying to get us a new banner to rest atop both the forum and the site's main index page. Currently I've become interested in a flash solution, to help spiffy things up a bit more here. So far, Tornado Joe has done up one (which you can see here (http://www.dreamviews.com/banner/DVbanner.html)) and from that I got the idea of having two different banners: one that would appear during the daylight hours, and the other during the evening hours.
Anyway, I was thinking I might use Tornado Joe's submission for the nighttime banner, with perhaps a couple changes (like maybe the fonts). I'm looking for someone interested in doing up a daytime banner for us; please note, it has to be professional looking. What I would like to see is our logo 'Dream Views' with scrolling clouds both moving behind and in front of the logo, perhaps with the current mountain scene in the background that we have now (or something similar or better). Regardless, I'd want both the daytime and nighttime banners to use the same scene...so if we're going to change the scene that's fine, but it'll obviously involve some work. To give you just a basic idea of the "cloud scrolling" idea, take a look at this little movie from a super nintendo game (it's about 3MB to download): http://www.dreamviews.com/banner/lagoon_clouds.avi. Note that in this movie the clouds don't move in front of the logo, but I'd like to see that as well.
If anyone is interested in helping that would be awesome. Just join the 'Art Team' and post in the thread entitled 'New banner development.'
There would be some text changes between the banners for the main site and the forum (one would say 'lucid dreaming forum' below the logo; the other would not). Also, 'Ex Nine' gave me an idea of a motto for the site: "Staying up all night"; I liked it so I put it up on the main site's index. I think that could be included in the flash above the main site.
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A couple other projects I'd like to start, if anyone is interested, include designing a collapsible menu for the forum that would present links to all of the sections of the main site. In this way, I hope to further merge the forum with the main site, which is currently I feel too remote. Basically a little icon or link or whatnot would be present just below the current silver-bar menu above the forum, and hovering over it would cause a menu to scroll down or appear in some manner. I'd like to see it in flash, but am open to other ideas. If anyone is interested in that, please let me know (or join the art team and start a new thread).
hrm. I thought I had another idea, but can't think of it currently. Anyway, thanks for reading this.