Hi,

I'm looking for someone to put together a new ad banner, I get the feeling our current one is a little out of date



Requirements

Colour Scheme: To match the vForums website (although I am open to other ideas)

Size: 728px x 90px

Text: The banner should include the name "vForums" and the tag line "Free Message Boards"
Other optional text can be added if there is room / it suits the design:
"Fully Customizable"
"Easy to Setup"
"Fun to Use"
or your own suggestions are welcome

The banner can be animated (if you wish) but should not be annoying

If possible, I'd like to have an editable version so that I can update it when necessary.

Whoever completes this will be given ad-free and the opportunity to have their forum featured on the home page of the site.

Whats the font that was used in the logo image for both the site and forum? it help to match up is matching text was used as well


Ok I think I got something:



If you like that let me know I i'll finish it. I plan on add animation where it says Fully Customizable and have it fade in and out the other two text saying as well, I also can provide the non-compiled file, though not sure what programs can use a .pdn format other the Paint.Net

Posted By dog199200 on 3rd Feb 10 at 2:38pm

 

Whats the font that was used in the logo image for both the site and forum? it help to match up is matching text was used as well

May have to wait for Slip to let us know that. I'd be interested to know too

Posted By Ross on 3rd Feb 10 at 3:56pm

 

Posted By dog199200 on 3rd Feb 10 at 2:38pm

 

Whats the font that was used in the logo image for both the site and forum? it help to match up is matching text was used as well

May have to wait for Slip to let us know that. I'd be interested to know too

I asked Slip this a while ago: it's SF DIstant Galaxy.

Anyways, i might have a crack at this at some point, need to get back into designing a bit...almost forgotten what Photoshop looks like, been using Fireworks too much

Posted By Graham on 3rd Feb 10 at 7:53pm

 

Posted By Ross on 3rd Feb 10 at 3:56pm

 

Posted By dog199200 on 3rd Feb 10 at 2:38pm

 

Whats the font that was used in the logo image for both the site and forum? it help to match up is matching text was used as well

May have to wait for Slip to let us know that. I'd be interested to know too

I asked Slip this a while ago: it's SF DIstant Galaxy.

Anyways, i might have a crack at this at some point, need to get back into designing a bit...almost forgotten what Photoshop looks like, been using Fireworks too much

That font very much sounds like something slip would choose.

*cough*startrek*cough*

I might give it another shot with an animation version but that's if I can find how to in photoshop, yes it's been that long. (I actually thought PS still had imageready)

I'll get Andy to throw something together for you Ross.

Would it be possible for an 88x31 banner as well? Ya know for affiliates and such. My site, will accept bigger banners, but only for business, and money.

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I don't think I could design a new banner for a business, I'm not that good.

nor am i but i tried XD

Didn't know what you add on the bottom bar.. If you want any features or something in there. If you choose to use it - Feel free to post um' here and I will add them for you.

Andy, that's cool, text scrolls too quick.

i think if andy fixed the text he will win this XD

I'll fix it, if its gonna be used.

I'd say it would be used if it get's fixed

Posted By Aiken on 8th Feb 10 at 3:39pm

 

I'd say it would be used if it get's fixed

I'll wait on Ross to post, so I can edit it with whatever he wants.

@ Andrew:
I'm not sure if the "Fully Customizable - ..." text looks a bit squashed together? Maybe a smaller font size for it? Or how about using either "Start your Community" or "Build your Community" as the text there and adding the others to the animated portion?
If you did that I'd suggest the animated text as:

"Easy to Setup", "Fully Customizable", "Full Template Control", "Frequent Updates", "Search Engine Friendly", "User Friendly", "Fun to Use"

@ blanka
Great banner. The background seems a little speckled or is that all part of the design? I find it hard to tell

@ Dwight/Broken
Unfortunately it's not loading at the moment. But from what I can remember it uses Times New Roman, my least favourite font

BTW. There's always the possibility of using more than one of the banners

I used a font called AngsanaUPC, but is quite close to Times New Roman now that i look at it , its ok, I was going to remove and remake the whole banner anyways, compared to everyone elses mines just dull

animations still way to fast XD

Yeah, too fast

ok i'm putting this up for the text concept, i realize the background suck just looking to know if the text looks good, and yes i'm to lazy to add animation at the current time, wont do that tll i get a good bg XD





Edit: Ah forget it i give up XD my profession logo making skills sucks, i'll sticks with anime XD

Posted By Ross on 9th Feb 10 at 12:32am

 

@ Andrew:
I'm not sure if the "Fully Customizable - ..." text looks a bit squashed together? Maybe a smaller font size for it? Or how about using either "Start your Community" or "Build your Community" as the text there and adding the others to the animated portion?
If you did that I'd suggest the animated text as:

"Easy to Setup", "Fully Customizable", "Full Template Control", "Frequent Updates", "Search Engine Friendly", "User Friendly", "Fun to Use"

@ blanka
Great banner. The background seems a little speckled or is that all part of the design? I find it hard to tell

@ Dwight/Broken
Unfortunately it's not loading at the moment. But from what I can remember it uses Times New Roman, my least favourite font

BTW. There's always the possibility of using more than one of the banners

Blanka's design is meant to be like that, he added a noise filter which makes it look speckled Just thought id add that in

If it goes any slow, it would be hard to switch from text/text smoothly.. I could just Text/cut/text But then it wouldn't blend nicely it would just cut from one quote to another quote.

you can also add repeated frames to extend the time the images shows that text. Like show the images three times, have the first one fade in and the last one fade out, leaving the center on as the solid display of the text. Yes it means extra frames, but it does work.

this is interesting. maybe I could try my hand at a new advert banner as well.

Seeing as how my computer is working properly *knock on wood* I'll make one.

Well, I made one, and it renders well in Fx 3.6.2, IE8, Safari 4, Chrome, and Opera 10.

http://www.idirectory.x10.mx/images/vf/vf-ad-banner.gif

If you're still taking submissions, I made one with a color scheme inverted from the website's. I also borrowed the logo, if that's not an issue.



One detractor is that the rounded corners will be uglified in IE6 because of PNG errors.

Thank you webmaren, I like it. We're still happy to see entries

IE6 is on the way out, few new sites go out of their way to accommodate it now. Even big sites like Google have openly stopped supporting it.

Yes, but as one chapter closes another one opens as IE9 is going to be releases here very soon

It should be criminal for four versions of a browser to be in significant usage at the same time. Especially when one of them is IE6.

What do you guys think of the glows on my text? I am conflicted about keeping them.

I think the glowing into a light hue is to much, I think a simple border with very soft glow would look better.

A big thank you to all those who took part. I think all the entries were better than anything I could come up with

Ill give this a shot of there is still time.

Unfortunately it has already closed, I think.