Nexus Logo - Background Suggestions

Fuzzy · Post by **Fuzzy** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:42 am

... XD Sargie, your icon kicks ass.

Okay, here are some BG's found in my HD I think would be nice:

This one I think I found from City of Shar's website *ponder* Ages ago.

Here's a nice parchmenty one I used for the Ojee 1.0 site:

And here's the obligatory sandy ones

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And here's some others you could even use, for the grey-background replacement on the forum (the ones above were for the white part):

Personally, I'd use that big grey or small dark blue one for the grey-background replacer, and the darker sandy one for the white-table replacer.

Samber · Post by **Samber** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:34 am

I've got a few good backgrounds floating around, too...

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I made these two a while back. I use the chrome on my dragon roleplaying forums, the black chrome I never found a use for...

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I'm not sure where this parchment one came from.

Starburst · Post by **Starburst** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:44 am

Here's a couple from Dee Dreslough's Art Gallery - an amazing site!

Black dragons on blue sky, not as text-compatible as the next one.

White dragons on blue sky. Text shows up better on this one.

I love this one. Red dragon outlines on black, AMAZING with white text. (Phe! Make a skin out of this one pleeeeeze!)

Cy · Post by Cy » Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:49 am

Some random ones I have floating around:

I thought the brick would make an interesting 'street' theem. Don't ask, I'm strange.

Astra · Post by **Astra** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:15 am

I like Cy's very last starry one! Sooo pretty

Xenoqueen · Post by **Xenoqueen** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:32 am

Just a reminder, folkses.

That little grey border around the white is all you'll ever see of the background image, so I wouldn't suggest anything that involves big pictures/icons-- like those dragon ones or that large starry one. You just won't be able to see it to appreciate it!

The only other images I can edit are the gradients that make up the horizontal bars.

And they have to stay the same size, so the only thing I can do with those is make up a new colour-gradient.

I cannot apply images anywhere else, like to replace the white secondary background or the body of posts.

LakotaWolf · Post by **LakotaWolf** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:21 pm

Just as an idea of what Phe can do with the color-gradients, here's the forum my friend and I made for our once-and-future dragon game:

http://www.dragonkeeponline.com/forums/

...yes, someday it will be a game where you can breed, raise, and train generations of DRAGONS! A la Neopets or Virtual Horse Ranch in concept, but nothing like them in playability.

Fuzzy · Post by **Fuzzy** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:34 pm

Spiffy, Lakota ^ ^!!

I thought about doing that with my Ojee, but can you imagine making a Flash program that allows you to roll up a colored Ojee from various template bits with over 1,000 possibilities? *shudders* ^^;; hehe..

*hugs on the dragon forum and peeks in it*

Silver Midnight · Post by **Silver Midnight** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:29 am

I like the grey variants, myself, I think we should keep it simple unless we're going to go all-out with a theme.

Yakima · Post by **Yakima** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:38 pm

Personaly, I like green themes. Or natural, is what I should say.

Mystic Dragon · Post by **Mystic Dragon** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:32 pm

*stares at the greeeeeeeeeeeeeeen*

Post by **Dray** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:59 pm

X3 That be's my bad! (or good? I dunno!) I was asking Phe if she could set up a greenish scale for the board, since I crave jade-tones. Hope it doesn't bug anyone else right now!

Skysong · Post by **Skysong** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:00 pm

Oooh! *likes the green* >3

Post by **Dray** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:01 pm

Oh! Phe, once you settle on a shade for the header bars, I can go and make them gradient-button-shiny, if you'd like! :D *thinks that that'd be cool*

Xenoqueen · Post by **Xenoqueen** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:05 pm

When *I* settle? XD Hey, this is your scheme. You want the shinies, you make the shinies. ::die-hard fan of Default, herself::

jess d · Post by **jess d** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:10 pm

I like the green! Pretty, pretty

Post by **Dray** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:12 pm

Yes, but you're the one in control of putting it into effect! XD

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:49 pm

I guess I'll have to clear my cache to see this green everyone's gawking at...

edit - nope, still not seeing it... What am I doing wrong? Maybe I have to close my browser?

Wanna see green!

Xenoqueen · Post by **Xenoqueen** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:56 pm

You also have to set your profile to the use the "Test" board style, rather than "Default".

Post by **Dray** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:57 pm

Do you have your board set to 'test' in your Profile?

And Phe, this looks great! ^_^' What are the dimensions we need for the headers? *will make some shiny-stuff if you don't mind!*

Xenoqueen · Post by **Xenoqueen** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:59 pm

Just save those and color over them.

Xenoqueen · Post by **Xenoqueen** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:03 pm

Aaand, correction. Set the profile to "Jade". Just renamed it. X3 Now, if only I could find the setting to make the 3D button-borders change color... <edit> Oh, wait, that's just a Firefox issue. Looks fine in IE... oh well.

Post by **Dray** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:15 pm

Phe? How's this work?

Xenoqueen · Post by **Xenoqueen** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:56 pm

Alright, mental note for the future, the "cellpic2" image should actually be 269 wide rather than 250. ::fixed it herself this time::

Post by **Dray** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:02 pm

XD I noticed that it seemed a bit off!

Thanks so much for making the board up for me, Phe! <3<3<3! It's so... relaxing? XD I like it!

*wonders if the 'submit', 'preview' etc. buttons can be changed?

Xenoqueen · Post by **Xenoqueen** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:05 pm

The picture-buttons have to be the same between themes-- as far as I can tell, anyhow. I can't find an option to change them. All previous image-changes-- the eggs and corner-logo and whatnot-- were implemented by overwriting the original images, rather than telling the board to show different ones.

The preview/submit/go etc buttons are as-is.

Shard · Post by **Shard** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:50 pm

It looks quite nice, the greens are very easy on the eyes.

... Where exactly did you get that avatar, huh?

Xenoqueen · Post by **Xenoqueen** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:58 pm

Mine?

Cacopheny scanned the comic from her newspaper, apparently, and sent it to me. So of course I had to icon-ify it!

Mystic Dragon · Post by **Mystic Dragon** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:42 pm

:3 I like the new colours. Very nice and shiney.

XD Awesome icon by the way.

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Nexus Logo - Background Suggestions

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