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jedimasterbac
Title: Fan Sites Moderator
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Date Posted:
2/26/06 12:44pm
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RE: The Fan Sites Open Call Banner Thread
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It seems to me that some people are having a hard time grasping what we are looking for in a banner. Some of these banners with Star Wars characters on them are very good and I would reccomend showing them to the Star Wars Saga forum, but what we're looking for is something like this that Kudar posted about a month ago. It needs to do more than just say "Fan Sites", it needs to SCREAM "Fan Sites". Look at the banner over at Fan Films. It has incorporated stills from many great Fan Films created by fans. A banner for Fan Sites should incorporate images from the many great Fan Sites created by the fans, many of which can be found in our wonderful Thread Index.
Also, I highly reccomend putting up Kudar's banner very soon, if that's alright with him.
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darth_nemisis
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Date Posted:
2/26/06 2:24pm
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Well, here is the banner that was made for me:
http://darnem.farvista.net/images/banner.jpg
What do you guys think. I am attempting to get that on to my stylesheet...But I don't know how.
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jedimasterbac
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Date Posted:
2/26/06 2:34pm
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That link does not work.
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darth_nemisis
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Date Posted:
2/26/06 4:00pm
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My apologies...Here is one:
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/7855/fsb29ff.jpg
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jedimasterbac
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Date Posted:
2/26/06 4:12pm
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That's cool. Maybe you could even have the names of other websites scattered throughout. You don't need an image of the sites, just the names.
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DVeditor
Title: Evil Overlord (manager)
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Date Posted:
2/26/06 6:05pm
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RE: The Fan Sites Open Call Banner Thread
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I like it as well and second what bac said as a suggestion. It could help fill it out a little bit but I really like the idea there.
As far as the stylesheet goes, here's one way you can test it out:
- Save a page from the boards to your hard drive
- Open the page in your favorite web editor and look at the raw code
- Host the images on a site like imageshack and copy/paste the URL's over the existing ones in the header information for the page (you can also use local paths if you like)
- Upload your stylesheet somewhere and link to it in the SECOND stylesheet field for the page (the first one should be an existing file on TFN by default)
- Save and preview in your favorite browser
That's how I look at any color changes, banner tests, etc. for stuff here and it works every time. Then if you want to show the page to someone all you have to do is upload the webpage itself somewhere and take a look! (Make sure you don't use local paths if you plan to do this though.  )
Hope that helps.
jedimasterbac posted:
Also, I highly reccomend putting up Kudar's banner very soon, if that's alright with him.
That one was uploaded to temporary storage a while ago and is still awaiting permenant hosting on the server once the tech admin has given it the ok. I assure you it'll be up as soon as that happens! 
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darth_nemisis
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Date Posted:
2/26/06 6:33pm
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How is this:
http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/5431/banner5ku.jpg
I added two more sites...I added theSWrpg.com...the banner was a bit strange, so you might not be able to tell what it is. Tell me what you think!
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DVeditor
Title: Evil Overlord (manager)
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Date Posted:
2/27/06 10:20am
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I like it - that plus your stylesheet would make a cool combination.
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jedimasterbac
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Date Posted:
2/27/06 11:53am
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Yay! You added SWRP.Com! You're my new best friend...
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darth_nemisis
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Date Posted:
2/27/06 12:46pm
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 I wanted to put sites on there that are well known or seem to be. I was going to put mine...but two problems: I don't have a logo to do so, and I figured it would be kind of crappy of me to do it. So, in the process of looking for bigger sites, I thought of yours.
If anyone would like to try and make it so the banner will go with the stylesheet...go ahead and try. I will attempt to break it into the appropriate sections...but no guarntees. I have work to do. 
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DVeditor
Title: Evil Overlord (manager)
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Date Posted:
2/27/06 9:54pm
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I messed with this a bit earlier today - here's how it could look so far:
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jedimasterbac
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Date Posted:
2/28/06 3:43am
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Yarael Poof approves of this banner.
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darth_nemisis
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Date Posted:
2/28/06 4:21am
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RE: The Fan Sites Open Call Banner Thread
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Awesome! Looks great!
I am definately going to need to figure this out.
Edit: One thing...it does not really have the red borders to it...Was that done purposefully? It doesn't really look that bad.
A;sp. O a, gpomg to want to distort the StarWarsRP.com banner a little, to make it resemble the starwarz.com.
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DVeditor
Title: Evil Overlord (manager)
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Date Posted:
2/28/06 10:53am
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The images are easy to replace as are the colors - I must have overlooked the borders and can change that on the system style when the images are all set.  Just let me know once you're ready and I'll pass all this along to the tech admin for review.
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jedimasterbac
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Date Posted:
2/28/06 12:19pm
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Nemisis, Jetzt offered to make you something to use on the banner for SWRP.Com. Should I say yes/no/maybe?
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