I have come to my senses and let all you see the skin for my new forum. Its more like a taste teezer, like samples of food or drinks at the store.

Here it is:
http://mdskintest.vforums.co.uk/

its the skin called: The Dark Knight: Final Encounter Preview.

Darkmage

That's real good, you did an very nice job on it.

Thank you, I like the whole skin I think I really out did my self on this, one, ive never done a forum like this one.

It's a lot better than previous ones you've done I'm not a massive fan of the "lines" that move on the banner as i think it detracts from the main image a bit but other than that, it's a good effort

Im trying to fix that, I want it to do it once, but I can't figure it out. I did it once before, but can't remember.

Posted By Nick on 30th Jun 08 at 7:05pm

 

Im trying to fix that, I want it to do it once, but I can't figure it out. I did it once before, but can't remember.

Are you using Image Ready for the animation? If so all you need to do is open the image up in Image Ready and in the animation palette in the lower left hand is a drop menu where you can change the animation to display once then stop.




If you are using Animation Shop go to Animation > Animation Properties and in the Pop Up window choose the Looping tab.




I do happen to think having a banner that is over 1MB in size is a little big, especially for those using dial-up connections.

Overall it's a nice skin. Something about the blue in the banner seems out of place to me because the rest of the color scheme/design is red and black. Good job though.

Nope sorry, Im using Paint Shop Pro Animation shop 3. and I found out how to do it.

and I know the blue is kinda off, but that is part of the batman image, and I cant take it out now, or I would have to redo everything.

and for the 1MB thats something I really cant help, it would have been in KB but the animation made it bigger

ya it does look really good, but the text is really hard to read maybe you should lighten up the normal text a bit, dark red and black dont work to well together, but at leats better then black and dark blue either way its good keep up the great work.

Ok thanks, I will do that. And for me it looks fine, but for desktops I just now found out the screens are darker then laptops. because I took pictures of myself in the dark with my laptop screen shining on me, and people with desktops the picture was all black, but on my laptop it was light.

Posted By Nick on 9th Jul 08 at 12:37am

 

Nope sorry, Im using Paint Shop Pro Animation shop 3. and I found out how to do it.

I did also include an explanation of how to do it in Animation Shop in case you didn't use Image Ready but anyway, glad you figured it out.

Yes, I suppose if you are insisting that your banner have that animation in it ... you can't help the size. That's up to you, I was just meaning that if a forum takes too long to load it may turn people away.

I know I saw

Ive also tried it on Dial up, one of my friends has the slowest dial up ever, and it still loaded up under 30 seconds.