New Halloween Themed JFF Logo!

Trekkan

Trekkan

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Just wanted to make sure everyone hits SHIFT-F5 in their browsers and checks out the new JFF Halloween logo! =) It's a little early, but it's pretty cool, so I wanted to get it out there now. You can all thank Zynn for taking the initiative and making us a sweet holiday themed logo! So, thanks [MENTION=31]Zynn[/MENTION]!
 
Good times. I am going to have to sit down and pick your brain about the graphic design sometime Zynn. Being a game addict and programmer, I should probably try my hand at video games at some point in time.
 
[MENTION=1]Trekkan[/MENTION] It looks pretty cool on the site, but the next one will need to be double wide. There is just too much free real estate up there by default.
[MENTION=21]SlipWraith[/MENTION] Thanks!
[MENTION=501]wandern[/MENTION] What I found is that if you are good at one thing, like programming, or graphics, you should stick with it, and just collaborate with someone who is good at the other. Both programming and graphics (especially 3d graphics) are very time-consuming, and trying to be good at both will only make both skills suffer. I guess, if you have no job, and have all of the free time in the world, you would be better off, but if you have that kind of time, you should focus harder into the more advanced aspects of your existing knowledge/skillset.

I totally understand the frustration of being one and not the other. So many times, I wish I knew a programmer for this or that. My focus is 2D, 3D, and motion graphics, and I can do a very, very little scripting. The scripting was necessary because some graphics packages require it now for making custom plugins or whatever. Also, it allows me to mess around with importing graphics into the Unity engine, as well as other minor tasks.
 
I'm assuming the background is part of it, certainly matches well. As for the width... instead of double wide, maybe an asymmetrical expansion of the "empty" side. Tree branches hanging out over the search box area or the like. Either way would look good and there's no shortage of Halloween themes to use.

But yes, like the others have said, it looks quite good.
 
Dsan said:
I'm assuming the background is part of it, certainly matches well. As for the width... instead of double wide, maybe an asymmetrical expansion of the "empty" side. Tree branches hanging out over the search box area or the like. Either way would look good and there's no shortage of Halloween themes to use.

But yes, like the others have said, it looks quite good.
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The image file contains transparency information, so the background you are seeing is actually the background image of the website.
As for having something dangle over the search engine... I think it may get too complicated at that point. The graphic and input query part of the website takes up that spot, and all that is above and below it up to the border where the background image ends at the borders of the new graphics. It is all in grids. You could MAYBE add an additional graphic directly above the search field, but when people adjust the website to fit their monitor, misalignment typically occurs, which would kill the illusion of being one large image.

I think the best option, with the least amount of work and tampering with the website, is to reassign the width of the logo image in the config file, of the website, and then insert the wider image, while still allowing a buffer between the end of the image and the beginning of the search field image.
 
I'll try and get the tests done we talked about [MENTION=31]Zynn[/MENTION]. Some of the things that will affect that are:

Hidden DIVs for ads
Things that only appear for specific users, such as registration links, user/pass fields for login, etc.

So, we'll just have to work with things and see what we get. =)
 
Zynn said:
The image file contains transparency information, so the background you are seeing is actually the background image of the website.
As for having something dangle over the search engine... I think it may get too complicated at that point. The graphic and input query part of the website takes up that spot, and all that is above and below it up to the border where the background image ends at the borders of the new graphics.
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Got it.

I was thinking of modifying the background rather than adding additional images. But it seems as that is out as well, there is resizing and such going on... never really noticed until you said that, played with the browser size awhile and saw all the stuff scaling/moving. :P

I don't know what you guys are cooking up but good luck!
 
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Yeah, these sites got more complicated, over the years, with many layers of code and images.
 
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