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sbcanada
4/17/02, 07:24pm
Since we don't really have a logo yet, whoever wants to make one can post it here, and then we'll vote to see which one we'll use. :)

ris
4/17/02, 07:31pm
could you give us the rgb or cmyk markers for the green that makes up the site headers? makes for accuracy in colour match.

thanks :)

sbcanada
4/17/02, 07:39pm
Do a screenshot and paste it into MS Paint... then use the lil eye dropper to copy the green? :D

Fury should know the RGB stuff, I don't have access to those settings. :(

ris
4/17/02, 07:43pm
i'd use a screenshot but the colours won't be accurate, you get distortion in tone. when fury gets a free sec that'll be fine.

thanks sb :)

Kruz
4/17/02, 08:04pm
here is a quick one

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ris
4/17/02, 08:27pm
nice kruz :)

Guest
4/17/02, 08:34pm
here's one

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http://www.otcentral.com/forum/oldattachments/comm.gif

fury
4/17/02, 09:35pm
The green strip color is HTML code #009900, don't know right off hand what RGB value that is

MuFu
4/17/02, 10:41pm
Does it have to be in any particular format? I mean dimension-wise.

MuFu.

samcurry
4/17/02, 10:47pm
mufu no bigger than s4's that would be as big as we would want it.

ris
4/18/02, 06:42pm
thanks for the info fury, i know it sounds picky but i believe in getting the right info in before i start designing anything, and the green is important to me.

i'll see if i can turn anything out over the weekend, i have loads of drawings to do for my masters oral exam, and work avoidance is all to easy :)

don't expect it to be flashy mind, i am virtually a minimalist

sbcanada
4/18/02, 07:09pm
We look forward to seeing it. :)

Gonz
4/18/02, 07:23pm
.

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http://www.otcentral.com/forum/oldattachments/OT Central.gif

sbcanada
4/18/02, 07:25pm
Not bad Gonz.... ;)

Needs a darker green though. :)

sbcanada
4/18/02, 07:29pm
How's this?

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http://www.otcentral.com/forum/oldattachments/logo1.jpg

MuFu
4/18/02, 07:30pm
We already have a logo....

:headbang: :hadbang:

MuFu.

sbcanada
4/18/02, 07:32pm
Or...

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http://www.otcentral.com/forum/oldattachments/logo2.jpg

ris
4/18/02, 07:59pm
after all the asking for the green i couldn't match it very well at on the first try. i can always have another go at it if i get bored with drawing up

i warned you it was minimalist!

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid18/pa2fd2fd308f256f03f36c3e8e652d1bd/fdcc46da.jpg

Q
4/18/02, 08:08pm
ris, your logo isn't showing up for me. I even tried pasting it in the address bar, but no go there either :(

ris
4/18/02, 08:16pm
dubble post dubble post

itchy mouse finger :D

ris
4/18/02, 08:16pm
hold up....

*tinker tinker....swuting imagestation.....swut*

should be ok now :)

thanks for the headsup *q*

outside looking in
4/18/02, 08:22pm
I kind of like that ris... though, just a bit more might not hurt... like spelling out "Central." Other than that, very tasteful.

ris
4/18/02, 08:27pm
hehehe, i hoped i could have less :D

i'll get back with a revised one if i can find time [ie when avoiding work]

Leslie
4/18/02, 08:32pm
I like it! It is really distinctive from those of other boards I've seen - we would be original! :)

MitchSchaft
4/18/02, 08:50pm
I like "Where the geeks relax" and "Let freedom ring". Both have a lot of meaning concerning us.

Q
4/18/02, 09:11pm
Oooooohhh. I like the one ris did....very nice! ('specially now that I can see it :) )

MuFu
4/18/02, 09:17pm
Had a go, just quickly, but I think I prefer ris's too. :headbang:

MuFu.

MuFu
4/18/02, 09:25pm
Hmm... wouldn't let me attach it for some reason. ?(

Don't really like the O... looks like a "Q"...blah.

MuFu
4/18/02, 09:28pm
Grrr... third time lucky. :mad2:

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http://www.otcentral.com/forum/oldattachments/OTlogo.jpg

MuFu
4/18/02, 09:30pm
Arse.... jpg fuzziness. Here ya go...

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MuFu
4/18/02, 09:31pm
Ah well... kinda sucks, but I'd love to see a play on the HWC logo just to stirr things up a bit. :D

MuFu.

ris
4/18/02, 09:41pm
here is one with more text

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid18/p0e7c4292327f587461425de32a6b2375/fdcc3b21.jpg

to be honest i'm not a huge fan of tag lines and like to keep things simple.

mufu - you got in ahead of me, i was just about to do the same thing for a laugh :D

Q
4/18/02, 09:55pm
Hmmmm, hardcore irrelevance.....it does have a nice ring to it.

Gonz
4/18/02, 10:27pm
Damn SB, give me a chance will ya---no on the second choice.

sbcanada
4/18/02, 11:04pm
Originally posted by Gonz
Damn SB, give me a chance will ya---no on the second choice.


Sorry man, just thought I'd give you some suggestions... ;)

Gonz
4/18/02, 11:25pm
I knew about the colors, just hadn't had time yet, no biggie.:D problem is now, with the correct coloring, the file is 265KB, too big to upload. Hell if I know why.

sbcanada
4/18/02, 11:27pm
You can upload it to a different site, and then put the image into a message here.

http://www.boomspeed.com/ is a good host.

Gonz
4/18/02, 11:39pm
doh!

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/gonzo/assorted/OT%20Central.gif

outside looking in
4/19/02, 12:06am
ris,

That's perfect. :)

I'm concerned about how the color will blend in with the heading bar? Perhaps the layout of the page could be altered so that it works fine. :( ?(

ris
4/19/02, 04:59am
my guess is that you are thinking of a centrally located logo where the current words are, while the design is for the entire header bar, which is a little cheeky on my part D

good point though, the intention was [and this is where the rgb stuff came in] to match the green of the site in the vertical line that sits behind the 't' of ot.

best thing to do is define how you see the logo working [central at the top or entire header, repeated at other parts of the site, that sort of stuff]

krusty
4/19/02, 07:15am
I did this one for HWC case badge thing in 2000

Could be easily modified.

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outside looking in
4/19/02, 12:03pm
ris,

Yeah, I was thinking it was just going to be inserted in the middle of the header bar... that would look pretty strange.

I think it would look good on either the right or left sides (doesn't seem like something symmetric that should be in the middle, but I'm no architect ;)). I assume you're intending to extend the "pattern" across the entire header... that would look pretty good.

I'm still wondering how it will look with all of the other plain-ass blocks of green around. I would probably have to see it to be able to get a good idea... I've never been good with visualizing colors. :(

ris
4/19/02, 12:07pm
the question of positioning has been going through my mind and i'm still not sure quite what the solution is. as i said my intention was always to just take over the whole bar [designer meglomania :D], but that might not be the best approach.

blending in is less of a problem i think, as long as the background shades are based on [or actually contain block of] the green that forms the borders of the rest of the site.

perhaps i'll do a mu fu style screenshot to see if it works.

it's amazing how somehting so straightforward can get so complex when you really think about it :)

*edit - if it is on either side then it's on the right, that much i do know

outside looking in
4/19/02, 12:11pm
Yeah, I was thinking right as well - looked like you intended it to be that way. I guess you could center otcentral on the header, and fill in on each side... but I kind of like the way it looks now.

ris
4/19/02, 01:07pm
here is a first go at a screenshot, with a full blend along the entire length of the banner

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid18/p44073e951b9d9de05ebf04be5b4ae29f/fdcbf601.jpg

outside looking in
4/19/02, 01:25pm
yeah, that looks pretty good. I like how it blends to the left back into the site green.

sbcanada
4/20/02, 12:04am
Here's a lil' somethin I slapped together... lol :D

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http://www.otcentral.com/forum/oldattachments/MYLOGO1.gif

Justintime
4/20/02, 12:12am
Ris, i like! :)

sbcanada
4/20/02, 12:27am
:D

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http://www.otcentral.com/forum/oldattachments/MYLOGO2.gif

sbcanada
4/20/02, 12:32am
;)

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Gonz
4/20/02, 12:33am
as for the same idea in a banner
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/gonzo/assorted/OT%20Central2.gif

sbcanada
4/20/02, 01:56am
:headbang:

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http://www.otcentral.com/forum/oldattachments/MYLOGO4.gif

Justintime
4/20/02, 02:22am
no offense, but i think ris's looks the best :P

sbcanada
4/20/02, 02:25am
I get no respect, no respect at all! :D

Justintime
4/20/02, 02:27am
:D

sbcanada
4/20/02, 03:02am
:o

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sbcanada
4/20/02, 04:14am
My logo is so sexxxxxxxyyyyyyyyyy. :cool:

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http://www.otcentral.com/forum/oldattachments/OTC Animated Logo(loop forever).gif

sbcanada
4/20/02, 04:20am
:D

Fury will like this one, even if no one else does... just you wait and see! This will be our logo!!! :D :cool:

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sbcanada
4/20/02, 04:28am
:P

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sbcanada
4/20/02, 04:31am
:P :P :P

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sbcanada
4/20/02, 04:37am
My apologies to anyone with a resolution of less than 1024x768. :D

sbcanada
4/20/02, 04:42am
Okay, this is my unofficial entry into the Logo Vote. :D

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http://www.otcentral.com/forum/oldattachments/barlogo.gif

outside looking in
4/20/02, 06:02pm
Wow, seven posts in a row!

But I still like ris's. ;) It's just so classy and elegant. It would really set this forum apart from the dozens of others out there (as far as looks anyway).

outside looking in
4/20/02, 06:04pm
I tried to make a logo. I'm no artist or photoshop prodigy, so I did what I do best... CAD!

I had a pretty cool 3d textured semi-transparent logo that was pretty sweet looking when OGL rendered spinning around... but it looks pretty lame when sitting still (kind of like a someone tried to make a 3d text in photoshop or something). There's just no one angle it looks good at, but when it's spinning, it looks natural.

Oh well, I still like ris's anyway.

sbcanada
4/20/02, 08:26pm
Nobody cares what you like! :D j/k (sour grapes)

We'll have a vote and see which logo we'll use when fury gets back. Everyone can enter one logo. If there are too
many (more than 10), then the staff members will pick the best 10 and then the people will vote. :)

ris
4/20/02, 08:29pm
how shall they be presented [standard width, height etc]?, just for the poor sods with smaller resolutions than 1600x1200 D

should they be part screeenshot or just the logo?

sbcanada
4/20/02, 08:32pm
We need fury to tell us the correct dimensions. And for the vote, you need to submit your logo by itself, not as a
screenshot. :) But, you can still show off your screenshot here, and maybe at the poll thread. ;)

fury
4/21/02, 02:42am
The image has to fit into a 640x480 browser without scrolling horizontally and not be too high, as excessive having to scroll will piss off people who don't have a mouse wheel to scroll easily with. So, about 620x80 or so would be the max size... smaller the better..

Current one is 34 pixels high, but I do like ris's spiffy nice logo ;)

sbcanada
4/21/02, 07:54am
When is the deadline to have our logos ready for the vote?

ris
4/21/02, 02:05pm
here is my official entry, until the actual vote etc etc

it's 620x34 and a snip at 6k

*tried attaching it properly :)

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Gonz
4/21/02, 02:28pm
who needs a color bar?

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sbcanada
4/21/02, 05:12pm
:)

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http://www.otcentral.com/forum/oldattachments/barlogo2.gif

sbcanada
4/21/02, 05:13pm
;)

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Jas101
4/21/02, 05:28pm
Vote for mine>

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Leslie
4/21/02, 05:35pm
sb yours is coming along, but I have a suggestion - could you tone it down a bit, I find the centre a little *blindingly bright* otherwise like I said it's coming along :)

sbcanada
4/21/02, 05:56pm
Is this less blinding? :P :)

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Leslie
4/21/02, 05:59pm
*sigh of relief* much better lol :P :D

just a suggestion, use the one you like :)

MuFu
4/21/02, 06:22pm
LOL@Jas101
:D

MuFu.

outside looking in
4/21/02, 06:25pm
Nice Jas101, that might get my vote! :headbang:

sbcanada
4/21/02, 07:09pm
:cool:

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ris
4/21/02, 07:13pm
jas101, that's sweet :)

i've got the kittens pic as my wallpaper at work [my office mate does these things to be when i leave the office :D], its fantastic!

Gonz
4/21/02, 11:20pm
I'm bored with this now. Here is the last one, unless I have a brilliant idea & the time
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/gonzo/assorted/OT%20Final.jpg

sbcanada
4/21/02, 11:59pm
:eek: :cool:

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Jas101
4/22/02, 04:41am
Thanks Ris.

The "Kittens" pic is my all time fav pic EVER!!! With the "Domo's" as a close second.

outside looking in
4/22/02, 11:36am
reminds me of a story my mom told me about my dad, an art class, a big city art fair, and a cover for the bulletin... :eek:

outside looking in
4/22/02, 11:37am
BTW, ris... throw a little pink, bright green, and orange into the mix for me. I think that would work wonders. ;) :headbang:

ris
4/22/02, 11:40am
right, i take that as a challenge! D

watch this [soon to be brightly coloured] space