Thread: New banner development

I actually liked banner #3 a lot. The blue theme is cool, but I think the other banners kind of overdo it and use too much blue.

well in #3, the blues kind of clash...but I would agree that there is a lot of bl00 goin on on these 6 &7 come close to matching the color, so I guess I prefer those, though the font doesn't really excite me

lol 4-8 all look the same on my monitor, but I prefer all blue

I think that #3 clashes too much as well

I also like #7

What did you have in mind as far as flash animation? You mentioned you still wanted to have a flash version? Perhaps some slowly moving mist or twinkling stars or something?

i think we'll have to go with the blues so everything ties in properly...introducing a banner with completely different colours than the rest of the site & forum just doesn't work IMO.

As for the font, I'm waiting to hear from Dylan regarding what font we currently have the 'Dream Views' text in so that we can use that for the new banner as well.

As for flash, I thought maybe MCB might be able to come up with some button animations (since he had started to). I'd also still like to do a day banner with scrolling clouds and a matching night one with twinkling stars, using this new image. Perhaps the day one could be this blue and the night one darker? I dunno.

Hate to bring it up, but what's with the "Staying up all night"? I thought only people who were learning to WILD did that?

Originally posted by Seeker
Hate to bring it up, but what's with the "Staying up all night"? I thought only people who were learning to WILD did that?

LMAO!

i have hundreds of cool pics if ya need anything

http://www.maj.com/gallery/docthory/site/e...t_mackenzie.jpg

Originally posted by Seeker
Hate to bring it up, but what's with the "Staying up all night"? I thought only people who were learning to WILD did that?

I agree that I'm not really a fan of that slogan either...maybe we could try to come up with a different one.

I'm also playing around with a flash version of this banner...that includes more of the water that was originally cut out and has a gentle rippling effect on the lake. I'll post it when it's done.

the home-messageboard- banner should be a bit semi-transparent so the image shines through

maybe

Originally posted by Seeker
Hate to bring it up, but what's with the "Staying up all night"? I thought only people who were learning to WILD did that?

Right, but you're conscious while lucid, thus "up." That's basically the "hook" that we have on the main page: suggesting one can get more out of the years that he or she spends asleep.

Originally posted by pOOp+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(pOOp)</div>

the home-messageboard- banner should be a bit semi-transparent so the image shines through [/b]

I thought about that but didn't think it would look right...go ahead and do one up for us, and maybe come up with a better menu too.

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I'm also playing around with a flash version of this banner...that includes more of the water that was originally cut out and has a gentle rippling effect on the lake. I'll post it when it's done.

I like that idea, but I'm concerned about making the banner larger to show more water (I thought it was already too large...it's bigger than our current one). You sure it could work?


Thanks for all the thoughts and whatnot.

Originally posted by icedawg
As for the font, I'm waiting to hear from Dylan regarding what font we currently have the 'Dream Views' text in so that we can use that for the new banner as well.

Why wait?

Here's a list of fonts I have that match the font on the logo either perfectly, or so close it could pass for right~

[list]Book Antiqua[*]Garamond[*]MS Serif[*]Palatino Linotype[*]Sylfaen[*]Times New Roman PS MT[*]David Transparent[*]FrankRuehl[list]


EDIT:

I put in the text, closest font as I could right now, I went along the lines of 7~


Did you want the 'staying up all night' in the same font as 'Lucid Dreaming Forum' in the current one?

Hey man thanks, that looks like a perfect match to me! awesome. I see you've done your own blue version; do you think that one looks better than what I've shown so far?

As for 'Staying up all night' it sounds like we might be changing that to something else since not everyone likes it. But to answer your question, yes. Someone thought it was Trajan Pro, so that's what I used.

That looks great Aphius.

I have Flash 8 Pro so I could whip up something if I get the images to work with.

aphius: do us up the matching sub-banner and then i can put them up and check 'em out!

Originally posted by icedawg
aphius: do us up the matching sub-banner and then i can put them up and check 'em out!

*avoids strong urge to make sexual joke regarding Aphius*

aphius baby, chop chop! i want to get this new banner up & running!

oh and nina, how's that water effect coming? do you think it's doable?

Aha, breathing life back into this old thing are we?

I'd love to collaborate again.

I've just gotten back into LDing, Flash, and I've got holidays coming up. Perfect.

I love the font that Aphius used for the slogan. That's a definite plus for me.

The Dream Views font should probably be kept, too. The latest one is slightly more curvy, it would seem (look at the top left of the D), and I really like that kind of serif... it seems to fit the Lucid Dreaming style more than formal, horizontal ones.

Perhaps... would it be too radical to design custom serifs for the D and V? Make the place more personalised and original?

Oh, and I'm pretty sure that it'd be almost impossible to code a water ripple in Flash.

I'll do a little concept.

Originally posted by icedawg
aphius: do us up the matching sub-banner and then i can put them up and check 'em out!

By Sub Banner, you mean replacing "Staying Up All Night" with "Lucid Dreaming Forum"?

Originally posted by Aquanina
*avoids strong urge to make sexual joke regarding Aphius*

Originally posted by Aphius
By Sub Banner, you mean replacing "Staying Up All Night" with "Lucid Dreaming Forum"?

no, the banner that falls right below the menu, which is a continuation of the original image (that, in the example, says "Introduction").

Originally posted by Aquanina
*avoids strong urge to make sexual joke regarding Aphius*

why am i not getting that? i feel left out!

hey Aphius,

do you think you could supply me with full original image, adjusted using whatever hue settings you used, in high quality? i know you're quite busy so if you could give me that much (and the name of the font you used for 'Dream Views') i can play with the cropping and generate the sub-banner and finish the rest on my own. it looks to me like whatever method you used to achieve the blue hue looks better than my attempts, so i'd like to use it.


thanks

I'd say we get the banner up there first. Then deal with possible animations. I had a cool ripple effect but I had to crop it quite a bit lower to include some of the lake...and I know you were already saying you were worried the banner was too large. So I dunno. We'll see.

Here's the original Image Hued the way I had it

Here's the matching sub banner to go with the one I did before;

I didn't put any writing on it since the one on the main page is just text over the background image.
Unless you want me to do that.

I did make this other version of the banner with the "Staying up all night" in the same font as Dream Views;


You know, just in case.
The font is called Palatino Linotype, I think it comes with Windows or Office or something.

w00t! thanks aphius, that's fantastic. i'll see if i can finish it and get it up there shortly.


btw, i secured permission to use the image from the author.