General Boards => Feedback => Topic started by: The Krazy One on October 27, 2012, 08:07:44 pm|
Title: Banner Discussion Post by: The Krazy One on October 27, 2012, 08:07:44 pm For a while now we have tried to bring activity to the site. One of the problems was that the site is called Wii Unite when it has changed from just Wii to adding 360, PS3 and PC related gameplay. Now I know that the site at this point will stay Wii Unite but one of the first things people that drop by the site see is the banner (unless you just ignore it's there now). In my opinion, if we want people to know we support other platforms then the first thing people see other than the site url on the site should show that we do.
I know that the current/only banner has some historic properties. About the poll, do you think we should get a new banner? If you vote, let us know your reason for your answer. Feedback helps. If you have a change of heart and want to change your vote, I thought of that. This is the current banner: (http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p173/marcus2319/WiiUnited_Better_Bigger.png) These are ones that Kreater made: (http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b101/kreaterz/WUbanner1.jpg) (http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b101/kreaterz/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20APODACA-PC/WUbannernew.png) Just the one above modified. (http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b101/kreaterz/WUbannernewest.jpg) (http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b101/kreaterz/WUbannernewest2.jpg) This is the one Autumn threw together: (http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/Wu.jpg) You can submit your own if you'd like. Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: the KR3AT3R on October 27, 2012, 08:49:01 pm I'm going to make the newer ones also say "WeUniteGaming" too in case there's enough interest in a domain name change. O0
Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Baw on October 27, 2012, 08:54:34 pm I really like Kreater's first one except with a more readable font, that would be sick
Second would be Autumn's, she did a great job on that Kreater's second is good too but I like it without the heartbeat blur thing. All of these are great but that's just my order. Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Tiger on October 27, 2012, 10:17:39 pm Autumn's or Kreater's first one. Not sure I'm for the moon though in it.
Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: MG Maxdaddy on October 28, 2012, 12:19:42 am I am the tag team champions!
Also, I like the second one of Kreaters. Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Autumn1194 on October 28, 2012, 08:30:19 am here's a Few more simple ones I did. :)
(http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/Wiiunblue.jpg) (http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/wulightning.jpg) (http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/WiiUnstar1.jpg) Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Turboweasle on October 28, 2012, 11:25:00 am (http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/Wiiunblue.jpg) I like this one except for the Games For Windows Live logo. It's almost universally hated by PC gamers. :P Something like this: (http://www.pamieciflash.com.pl/bilder/pc_logo.jpg) may be better. (http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b101/kreaterz/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20APODACA-PC/WUbannernew.png) I also like this one, but would prefer it with less intrusive blue over the consoles. Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: the KR3AT3R on October 28, 2012, 11:31:37 am ^ that's the font I was looking for. The "PC" one.
Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Ps358 on October 28, 2012, 12:12:03 pm ^ that's the font I was looking for. The "PC" one. Wait wuhTitle: Re: New Banner? Post by: The Krazy One on October 28, 2012, 03:07:33 pm Something like this: ^ that's the font I was looking for. The "PC" one. (http://www.pamieciflash.com.pl/bilder/pc_logo.jpg) A quote within a quote. Quoteception! I'm liking some of these banners. Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: The Krazy One on October 28, 2012, 10:56:02 pm I randomly made one a few minutes ago in paint. How does it look?
(http://i48.tinypic.com/2ds1r84.png) I think we have a winner here. Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Autumn1194 on October 28, 2012, 11:01:29 pm (http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/Wiiunblue.jpg) I like this one except for the Games For Windows Live logo. It's almost universally hated by PC gamers. :P Something like this: (http://www.pamieciflash.com.pl/bilder/pc_logo.jpg) may be better. (http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/Wiiunblue2.jpg) Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Autumn1194 on October 28, 2012, 11:02:10 pm I randomly made one a few minutes ago in paint. How does it look? (http://i48.tinypic.com/2ds1r84.png) I think we have a winner here. O0 Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Baw on October 29, 2012, 12:42:48 am I randomly made one a few minutes ago in paint. How does it look? That deserves karma. :D(http://i48.tinypic.com/2ds1r84.png) I think we have a winner here. Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: the KR3AT3R on October 29, 2012, 01:00:40 am OK, I did a few subtle changes. I wanted to keep it simple, so hope it looks good.
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b101/kreaterz/WUbannernewest.jpg) (http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b101/kreaterz/WUbannernewest2.jpg) Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Turboweasle on October 29, 2012, 09:01:44 am (http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/Wiiunblue2.jpg) This one gets my vote. Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Autumn1194 on October 29, 2012, 04:12:01 pm (http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/WiiUnstars4.jpg)
It's fun making these lol :P Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Tiger on October 30, 2012, 07:01:38 am I concur with Turbo's choice.
Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: The Krazy One on October 30, 2012, 03:49:25 pm We should get a number of these and do a vote on them. Or if possible we could get the best ones and have the banners rotate (shows a different banner every time the page is loaded). If you guys get what I mean.
I was thinking of one more idea. Would anyone be able to make one that is like the current one (the console bursting through the background) but with all four platforms (Wii U, 360, PS3 & PC)? Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Autumn1194 on October 30, 2012, 03:53:56 pm Probably, but space is limited ( very limited ) so unless you could make the banner bigger I don't think it will look good.
Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Turboweasle on October 30, 2012, 04:12:19 pm I'm not sure if we can have a rotating banner. There's not an option for that, which means I'd have to code it into the header.
Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Autumn1194 on October 30, 2012, 04:17:22 pm that'd be pretty nifty.
Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Tiger on October 30, 2012, 04:19:12 pm Like an extended gif or something? I don't know what the 'time limit' is for those.
Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Turboweasle on October 30, 2012, 04:24:55 pm It would have to be by page refresh.
What I'm thinking is that I'll set up a random number generator with values 0 and 1, assign that value to some variable, then have an if-else statement to determine which image is displayed. This would be done each time the page is loaded. But I don't know if we have that much control. Surely if it's just Javascript we can do it as that's a client-side language so we wouldn't have to deal with SMF's servers. Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Autumn1194 on October 30, 2012, 06:32:34 pm We should get a number of these and do a vote on them. Or if possible we could get the best ones and have the banners rotate (shows a different banner every time the page is loaded). If you guys get what I mean. I was thinking of one more idea. Would anyone be able to make one that is like the current one (the console bursting through the background) but with all four platforms (Wii U, 360, PS3 & PC)? I tried to do the bursting through thing but I'm not good enough lol. anyway here's mine so far if you do decide to vote or whatever you decide to do. (http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/Wu.jpg) (http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/wulightning.jpg) (http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/Wiiunblue2.jpg) (http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/WiiUnstars4.jpg) (http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/WuSpace2.jpg) (http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/WuSpace.jpg) Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: the KR3AT3R on October 30, 2012, 07:42:53 pm What Autumn said; with a bigger banner there are more options to add into it. With such a small template you're limited. :-\
I also like the GIF idea. O0 Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: The Krazy One on October 30, 2012, 08:44:33 pm I was basically thinking of using the GIF idea because I remember seeing someone's sig on another site that changed everytime you refreshed the page and it was also in GIF format.
About the banner, is 450 x 125 the limit that SMF has or can it be longer? Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Raiden on October 31, 2012, 09:28:44 am The banner is very mis-leading, I thought this was a pure wii supporter forum until I looked at the boards.
I like the bottom 4 of Autumn's. Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: The Krazy One on November 01, 2012, 04:31:20 pm ^Exactly! It isn't just the name of the site, it's also the banner that misleads people if they get past the name.
I'm still waiting on an answer for this. I was basically thinking of using the GIF idea because I remember seeing someone's sig on another site that changed everytime you refreshed the page and it was also in GIF format. About the banner, is 450 x 125 the limit that SMF has or can it be longer? Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Turboweasle on November 01, 2012, 04:35:12 pm I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think it can be whatever size you want.
Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: The Krazy One on November 01, 2012, 06:08:59 pm That's probably something that an admin can test out.
I know that they're a bit big height wise but try some of the longer one's here. http://wiiunite.smfforfree3.com/index.php/topic,1927.0.html I would think that if they're too big it would notify you on that and the max size you can use. Title: Banner size test Post by: The Krazy One on November 02, 2012, 02:53:27 pm ^ Any admin going to test that out anytime soon?
Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Turboweasle on November 02, 2012, 02:57:18 pm Nope.
Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Autumn1194 on November 02, 2012, 02:57:52 pm lol
Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Turboweasle on November 02, 2012, 03:08:22 pm I'm joking. Mostly.
I'm going to test it, but not right now, and not until I've had time to go through the HTML/CSS/Javascript that's located in the header (where the banner will go), understand it, and test it offline with the Javascript code I want to use to determine which banner is displayed. That will take time, and I don't want to do it right now as I took a Java data structures exam today and don't particularly want to read code for a couple hours. Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: The Krazy One on November 02, 2012, 04:24:15 pm Understandable, just let us know of the results when you're finished.
Should we go ahead and do a vote anyway for the heck of it? Or if anyone else would like to contribute a banner, feel free. Now to think of more problems with the site. :) Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Turboweasle on November 02, 2012, 04:37:34 pm Yeah, going ahead and calling a vote would be fine.
Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: The Krazy One on November 02, 2012, 05:17:56 pm Alright, since it will pretty much be Kreater and Autumn we need to decide which ones will be in the vote. Taking the ones with the 4 platforms in account, we already have Kreater's.
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b101/kreaterz/WUbannernewest.jpg) (http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b101/kreaterz/WUbannernewest2.jpg) They're basically the same one. We just need to decide which of Autumns will be in the vote or if we should also put those as seperate options. (http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/Wiiunblue2.jpg) (http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/WiiUnstars4.jpg) (http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/WuSpace2.jpg) (http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m571/Autumn200/WuSpace.jpg) When that is decided, I'll make the topic. Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: The Krazy One on November 03, 2012, 01:33:03 pm I am the tag team champions! Also, I like the second one of Kreaters. NO! I'm the tag team champions! Yeah, I'm thinking of picking the 1st and last of Autumn's in my last post for the vote. Any objections! Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: Ps358 on November 03, 2012, 02:44:05 pm Are you going to change it or not?
Title: Re: New Banner? Post by: The Krazy One on November 03, 2012, 03:46:17 pm Yeah, we are. We just need to decide which one we're going to use. And Turbo has to figure out the technical stuff. I'm just going to make the topic. |