We need a banner.

[DeathCow]

Anyone around these parts good with banner making :p

[The Crazy Animal]

What type of thing are you looking for other than just a banner?

I found its never good to offer help if there isn't a concept on the table.. :)

TCA

[DeathCow]

AHhhh see....my first thought was like to make something like metro's banner


But like make it look nice...you know the same, but better.

[The Crazy Animal]

Ok some type of gothic font surrounded by items

Or do you want something more classy like gothic ivy creeping around the sides?

TCA

[The Crazy Animal]

hmm middle of playing around my main comp crashed... I'll get back to this a little later right now I have to recover some word documents :) don't you love when that happens......

TCA

I was thinking something along the lines of:

Marble background with Ivy creeping up the left side.
then in a Gothic font offset to the right:
Greatermud
A Legacy Reborn

But I'm not sure now need to play with the idea some more.

[ZLemur]

A Legacy Reborn sounds pretty good...hopefully the folks at Metro don't shit themselves and try to sue. Would be the only way to get any money out of MMud, so they might be crazy enough to do it.

I can give a banner a shot in the next few days unless someone beats me to it and rocks my socks off. I'm rather rusty, though.

[The Crazy Animal]

hehe that was the kind of balls in the face feeling that I was kinda going for..

Give it a try if you like.. I'm going to try again later.. I had the marble looking nice but I need to find some better fonts..

TCA

[ZLemur]

heh.  I was being 89.3% facetious.

[The Crazy Animal]

First attempt hows this:



In comparison:



One thing I just noticed is they aren?t using the standard banner template.

TCA

[ZLemur]

Lookin' good. Perhaps the marble could be a little darker? And if you can find it, maybe some rusted/broken armor (helm, maybe a sword stuck in the ground) would fit nicely on the bottom. I'm obviously outclassed here, so it's all you :p

[The Crazy Animal]

I tried darker marble but it interfered with the text so I can?t go to dark with it. If you notice metro gets away with the black background by surrounding the letters with those blue filled tiles. I could try a discolored marble something that?s a little yellowed or tanned. Or could lighten the area directly behind the text but that could look kinda strange.

Hmm maybe a sword across the bottom with the text ?A Legacy Reborn? over it? I?ll look for something that might work a little later.

Maybe some more comments might help.. I?ll wait before I start screwing with it again.

TCA

[ZLemur]

That'd work nicely too. Just be sure the sword is interlaced with the lettering...know what I mean?

like:


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||||------------||||------------||||----\\
||||------------||||------------||||----//
||||    ||||      ||||     ||||     ||||

wow, that's horrible. hope it gets the idea across though.

EDIT:

Just stumbled on this http://www.moorstation.org/typoasis/blackletter/index.htm bunch of typefaces quite literally (caress firefox). and this one http://www.moorstation.org/typoasis/fantasy/ff1.htm

might help if you need a diff font. not suggesting anything, just giving options.

parent site: http://www.moorstation.org/typoasis/themes.htm


yeah, too lazy to put in the url tags. sue me.

[DeathCow]

That is very nice.  It does need to be a little darker...or it will just look wierd at the top of our forum.  And in my sig over yonder.  They got a black background over there :p

[DeathCow]

Although the light grey might work on forumshq..lets have a looksee.

[DeathCow]

Yep..looks nice on forumshq's theme.