Well, as you all have noticed, I have changed the ugly blue buttons on our boards to something more wheel of time fitting. However, I made them, and I think that we can do better. Soooo, I'm gonna have a contest. The purpose of this contest is, make buttons for the site! Host them, and post them in this thread. You will need one button for forum markers, one button for new posts forum markers, and also, if you open a forum, you will notice the markers for threads are these ugly red and blue folders. So we need to bust something cool out.

Sooo, the winner gets their buttons used on the website. Your lovely administrators decide on the winner, and it shall be announced by me putting them on here one day! For now, i figure my ugly yin yang thingy's will have to do.

Have fun, and make sure the buttons are the right size.

I'd be happy to do this, or at least participate, but my only concern is hosting. I have my own site, but I don't know that I'd want to host them on that forever... Would it be possible for me to host them temporarily, and then we could switch it? :blink: Thanks. Cool, idea!

I will be hosting whichever ones we pick. So yes, you can host them temporarily and then I will save and upload them myself.

It would be easier if you determined the "right" size =0)

Edited the Yin/Yang ones a bit =0)

Oh wow... just saw this thread... *goes of to make cool little fusions buttons* hehehe...

and btw, you have lots of those blue bottons still.. like reply, edit, report, new topic, etc...so perhaps if someone did those as well...

EDIT: do you have the RGB values for the color of the background of the forum so I can make the button actually seem to be a part of it?

(as for size, the buttons there now are 24 x 24 pixels)

Nanaia, you can just 'print screen' then look at the RGB thingy in photoshop :P

Or you check the source code :P (background color for posts and such: #343A36)

Yeah yeah yeah... I know I have better things to do then this. :look I also know that I love making pics and this kind is the easiest one to play with. ^^ I do like the yin-yang ones, but I suggest taking away the dots as they do not belong in WoT.

uhm My suggestion

The blue might be a bad idea since it is dark, I actually like Elysias yellow color, you can easily spot that one...

Cay, I love yours :)
I like the Blue actually (:look) though I think the white one should be for new posts and the blue for no new posts, and not the other way around :)

Ooh. Pretty.

*nods enthusiastically* I give up :)
Yours are better than mine anyway, though I am pretty sure you can't change the help/search/members/calender buttons at the very top of the site. Could be wrong :look

Ooh, I like those Cayana. :) I'm with Lyla on the blue/white thing though, if only because white is easier to see against this background. :)

I guess that was why I said that about the yellow :P

So Mother, Lyla, you are suggesting this then?

Nanaia: hmm you should be able to... but then again, I don't know how this forum works administration wise, so *shrugs* it's no big deal I made them just in case ;)

*nods*
exactly what I'm saying :)

give sidivin some time guys *thought he mentioned that on this board* he is making some purty nice looking buttons, just not finished yet.

Ah.. Here we go...

All I have for now is a small sample, but the set should be completed before long. ^^




I'm going to change the little pictures to something a bit more WoT-oriented as soon as I can find something suitable... :lol:

ooo *thinks those can look really nice once finished* could you perhaps give us a highlighted sample as well? :) *hugs Sidivin*

Actually, I'm hoping to use Fireworks to make them interactive.

(This is assuming that I have time on my hands...) <_<

ah I meant like for those threads that there where new posts in and such, but yeah ^^ *hopes sidivin gets some time on his hands*

Here are some of the completed buttons (except for the animations)

I decided to leave out the interactive stuff so our page loading time wouldn't die... :look







Hope these'll work... :lol:

Ok... Fixed the whiteness... :lol:

they don't love you here, Cay. Come to my site and make buttons for me. Please *begs* :look

Ok, I've added some more. Here are the ones you've seen:








And here are the Forum icons. ^^

This one is for no new posts:



And this one is for unread posts:



BTW, The animated one was made by someone else, and I tweaked it only slightly and made the second one out of it. These are best viewed in Internet Explorer. For some reason the animation goes crazy in Netscape... <_<

Those are great, but don't you think the moving will take forever to load on dial-up?

That is a possibility. I suggest we make a test-run to ensure it's stability.

Also, there shouldn't be that many of these on the site. It only serves to alert you to unread posts. I usually don't have very many, and I suspect that with most others it is the same. The file size of the animation is actually quite close to that of a normal pic.

Mishael: poke me some day and perhaps I can help you ;)

Sidivin: the animations are just twice as large :P but it works alright in my netscape version o.O as well as in Safari... what version of netscape did you check it in?

It's not that it doesn't work, it's just that in Netscape it goes way too fast. It is supposed to move realatively slow...

Maybe it's just my comp... <_<

no, in firefox it goes pretty fast too. It is to distracting (though really nifty) so if it was slower somehow then I'd say close the contest.

that was me :look

Allright... I have no idea how to adjust the framerate in Fireworks, so I'll have to just add extra frames unless someone can tell me how...

(I have Fireworks MX 2004)

in firefox the spin thing is 5.3 kb, while the other is 1.23 kb... looks more then twice to me :P
in explorer... well, it won't let me see it in the properties, and for some reason when I try saving it I can only save it as .bmp

and Sidivin, I actually think that, at least for some ppl, there will be many of the animations on the site... it's timezone related (I think) when you come to this site, it's activity time, there are not many unread posts for you, cuz you're on when most of the posts are posted... when I get on, very few boards are marked as no new posts... ppl with dailup around my time zone will have a problem

grr that was me.. sowwy

That is probably a good reason to not have animations. The buttons however are beautiful. Perhaps you could use them anyway but without animating and actually use colors instead? (unless there is a way to use profiles that also changes buttons but I don't know anything about that so nm) Just an idea *likes Sidivins buttons even if they move fast in anything but explorer :P*

The posts are marked as unread only if you don't read them. A quick click of the icon, however, marks the entire forum as read.

Really, we don't know how much this will affect ppl, which is why we need to do a test-run.

:lol:

but I want them to be marked as unread. that's how I know where there are new posts :P

Ooo! 0.o I like them, Sidivin Asha'man!

All of you are right though. I suppose it might take some time to load. It works fine on mine. Not really sure what I have though, sorry...