Need some new banners for the top of the site!

Tim

Tim

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Don't know about you, but I'm tired of lookin' at Noel's 59 sticker all the time ;) I'd be happy to put up some of our members' artwork/photography in its place and rotate through every once in a while.

Have a look at the graphic and you'll get the idea of what we need in terms of size. If you right-click on the '59' and save the picture, you'll see its a GIF file. It needs to fade to a repeating pattern like it does at the front wheel. That gradiated grey band is actually a repeating thin graphic, so provide that too. Right click in that area and you can save the background.

Post the files here and I'll see what I can do. Throw the DO THE TON circular logo (THANKS TO BLUEMETALDOG for the great logo) on the image too of course.
 
Tintin said:
Don't know about you, but I'm tired of lookin' at Noel's 59 sticker all the time ;) I'd be happy to put up some of our members' artwork/photography in its place and rotate through every once in a while.

Have a look at the graphic and you'll get the idea of what we need in terms of size. If you right-click on the '59' and save the picture, you'll see its a GIF file. It needs to fade to a repeating pattern like it does at the front wheel. That gradiated grey band is actually a repeating thin graphic, so provide that too. Right click in that area and you can save the background.

Post the files here and I'll see what I can do. Throw the DO THE TON circular logo (THANKS TO BLUEMETALDOG for the great logo) on the image too of course.
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I agree.. Even Im getting tired of that image... Its time for a change...
Camon guys.. Lets see what you got!!...
 
Tried to make this my signature on another site... Crappy quality picture stretched out in MS piaint and I don't know how to do the mentioned editing.

Don't expect it to be used, just posting for fun.

Ball is officially rolling, now someone post a masterpiece!! :D
 
Here's some random pics off my puter(if you wanna use one cool-if not no big deal ;D)
JAY1BW.jpg

Spring1-1.jpg

FALL3.jpg

222.jpg
 
I think that looks killer !
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Hmmmm I wonder if you like the first couple o shots ;)

Dude, you definately have an eye for images. Find me 8-10 that scale nicely at 900 X 115 and I'll whip up a new version....

That goes for any one else, if you post your "cool shots" here and they are more than 900 pixels wide I'll get them in a new version.

I'm digging the black and white look in general.
 
Made two of my cafe racer pics. Don't know if you'll like them........

74009777vs2.jpg


m2vy8.jpg


EDIT
@UnCrash: It looks great. Shuffling images will be very good. And we can feature the rides in a random fashion too.

Is it possible to make the images relative. I mean are you actually adding the images to the flash file?! Or are they being picked from a specified location containing a collection of images. Seems like you did the former, but I really think the latter is better (although I don't know how to do that :D). But if someone posts a new one, it'll be easy to just put it in the folder, same goes for deleting images.

But there may be a downside to the flash file. I've seen some websites that get quite annoying because of such stuff. When you try to access them, the page content WILL NOT show UNTIL the flash file is loaded completely.

Hope you get what I meant.
 
Hey Gordon.

I do know what you mean. It's nice to chat with a fellow flasher ;)

I guess I could write up some action script that would pick photos out of a folder to display. I haven't done that before and it would be a little tricky both from an action script perspective and a photo perspective. I would think if we eliminated movement and only had properly cropped images fade in and out that would work best.

What I mocked up loaded all pictures to the library, and the swf is around 600K with just these images. While I think it looks cool it might annoy me after a while to have the top banner keep moving and rotating etc.....

The Flash banner only holds up page write if there is a preloader javascript executed in the Body tag specifying that the banner load before the page.

A better and non-flash alternative would be to load a random image from a folder using javascript. That way there was a different single image at the top with every page load (or re-load). I thought of this alternative at the end of playing around with the Flash file, and after another beer ;D

Does anyone (Moderators?) know if you can control the banner graphic with Javascript? I could give you the code needed to do the job,.,.
 
I had played around with this random javascript thingy once. You can have random images at every load. But that too would be annoying. Because I don't think it'll be entertaining to keep reloading the pages and increasing site usage for no reason.

The BEST option that I worked out was to have a random image on every day of the month. We can easily have 30 images. And by the time the next month arrives, we'll have a new stock of images.
 
Well... I think these are all great ideas...

Wadda think Heidi?.. :)
 
Hey Gordon,

That does sound good. Do you know how to write the Settimeout method?

We can do something like this, but we'll need a more robust settimeout.

From http://www.tutorial5.com/content/view/49/37/

<script type="text/javascript">
var c=0
var s
function photoGallery()
{
if (c%5==0){
document.getElementById('photo-gallery').src = "photos/pic1.jpg";
}
if (c%5==1){
document.getElementById('photo-gallery').src = "photos/pic2.jpg";
}
if (c%5==2){
document.getElementById('photo-gallery').src = "photos/pic3.jpg";
}
if (c%5==3){
document.getElementById('photo-gallery').src = "photos/pic4.jpg";
}
if (c%5==4){
document.getElementById('photo-gallery').src = "photos/pic5.jpg";
}
c=c+1
s=setTimeout("photoGallery()",1000)
}
</script>
 
locO leoN said:
Well... I think these are all great ideas...



I agree... I don't understand a single word of what they said ??? ... but the finished concept sounds super!

You folks are amazing!! ;D ;D
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Probably a bit neater, and a lot less code, would be a server side solution. You just create a variable in the header that is a random number (set the limit as the number of photos) and ensure all the images are named the same with a number in the title (e.g. headerImage1.jpg, headerImage2.jpg, etc). Then in the HTML just stick what ever number is randomly generated into the image tag.

<%
Dim randomNumber
Randomize
randomNumber = Int(Rnd * 4) + 1
%>

<img src="common/images/header<%= randomNumber %>.jpg" name="banner" />

The above is asp code but it can be done with any server side code.
 
Wow - you guys are WAY beyond anything I know how to integrate into the site. Keep in mind this forum platform is an open source system (Smart Machine Forum) and the graphic at the top is just a lowly GIF file. Replacing it outright with code may not be easy.

An animated GIF might work - it takes me 2 seconds to FTP a new GIF file up, so I don't mind having a few on hand ready to go.
 
UnCrash said:
What about a flash based rotating banner?

I just whipped up this lil something with a few quickly found images.......... Could certainly be better with better selected images and a little more time

http://www.benduffy.com/images/DTTBanner.html
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Gets my vote!

:D

And not just because my bike / helmet is in there. ;D ;D

Thanks for including my seca among those great bikes.
 
HerrDeacon said:
Probably a bit neater, and a lot less code, would be a server side solution. You just create a variable in the header that is a random number (set the limit as the number of photos) and ensure all the images are named the same with a number in the title (e.g. headerImage1.jpg, headerImage2.jpg, etc). Then in the HTML just stick what ever number is randomly generated into the image tag.

<%
Dim randomNumber
Randomize
randomNumber = Int(Rnd * 4) + 1
%>

<img src="common/images/header<%= randomNumber %>.jpg" name="banner" />

The above is asp code but it can be done with any server side code.
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Want to help me with my programming assignment?? :D
 
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