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Post by Desi Baggins on Jun 14, 2005 15:46:17 GMT -6
Vanye did you see the new skins?
Anyway the Gondor skin is done....I just have to make buttons for it, but you can check out the white city skin now!
I am thinking of doing Mirkwood next...
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Post by Stormrider on Jun 15, 2005 21:14:48 GMT -6
Well, I finally finished Mordor. Now I am debating about doing either The Lonely Mountain, Rivendell, or Moria.
I accidentally came across a background that would work well for the Lonely Mountain and have that saved already and would only have to do a few tweaks to it.
Moria is a bit confusing....should it be done Dwarvish or Orcish or a combo of both?
Rivendell seems to be calling to me and I have a tugging to work on it next. After doing Mordor, I need something more bright and cheerful!
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Post by Magpie on Jun 15, 2005 21:45:01 GMT -6
Moria is a bit confusing....should it be done Dwarvish or Orcish or a combo of both? You could do two... Dwarven Moria and Orcish Moria. I have been contemplating a Lothlorien look. Should it be light and golden to reflect the book? Or dark and bluish to reflect the movie? And then it occurred to me I could do both.
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Post by Desi Baggins on Jun 16, 2005 6:51:13 GMT -6
Yeah we could do a orcish, tollish, balrogy Moria and a dwarvish Khazad-dum
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Post by Stormrider on Jun 17, 2005 6:06:51 GMT -6
Same thing for Mirkwood....spidery and dark as in The Hobbit or Fair and Elvish for Legolas and Thranduil!
I even thought of doing another Mordor in more dark colors rather than the dark reds.
Also The Lonely Mountain could be a dual look!
There are a lot of places in Middle-earth that skins could be made for not to mention the Elvish realms in The Silmarillion, Valinor, and one for Numénor!
Boy! We could make skins until doomsday!
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Post by Magpie on Jun 17, 2005 9:08:39 GMT -6
yum... think of Tom Bombadil or Goldberry ... or the mounds of the Barrowwights. How about the Dead Marshes... the Woses or the pukel-men.... Beorn and his dancing bears.... Smaug... Nimrodel... the Eagles... Fangorn forest
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Post by Desi Baggins on Jun 18, 2005 5:27:04 GMT -6
LOL! There are a bunch of places to do..........Kinda like when we did the role-play stores for the anniverary role-play chat, we kept adding stores!
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Post by Stormrider on Jun 18, 2005 6:29:25 GMT -6
Not only places.....but we could do skins for the PEOPLE of Middle-earth, too! But let's not get carried away! Doing all of these skins sounds more like Cold Weather or Rainy Day projects anyway! We can work on them when the weather is bad! We have a good start on the skins for now, so we can take our time. Anyway, I want to do some normal posting at this site, too. You know, some good discussion once in a while, too!
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Post by Stormrider on Jun 25, 2005 4:57:06 GMT -6
Magpie:
I received your email with the websites for the Lothlórien skin. It is awesome! You did a fantastic job.
I have a very busy weekend and will work on it next week. I can hardly wait to get it up on the site!
Thank you so much for helping us out with a skin.
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Post by Desi Baggins on Jun 26, 2005 7:35:26 GMT -6
I can't wait to see it! This week my schedule frees up so I can get to work on the Mirkwood skin and finish buttons for Gondor.
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Post by Stormrider on Jun 27, 2005 20:14:00 GMT -6
Magpie: I have loaded the Lothlórien skin and I have to confess.... errmm.... aaah.... .... sigh.... ! I did not follow all of your directions for the text, forum, and header colors ! To my eyes, the dark reddish brown font colors did not look nice with the greens of the Lothlórien skin. I hope I read correctly that you wanted the background color to be the lightest green D1D6AA and the text to be the dark color. However, I was having some trouble with the link colors being a pleasing color so I used the blackish green 141710 as the link color and the dark green 4B5536 as the visited link color. Then I had to come up with another shade of green for the text so the links would stand out. Also the mouse-over highlight colors still will not change on any of the new skins and that goldeny orange color is still there no matter how many times I change the HEX color (the HEX color I want it to be does stay on the skin code page but the colors don't change to what the HEX code says! grrr ) Anyway, I think I came up with a pleasing combination and I hope the skin is more or less what you had in mind. Take a look at it and please let me know if there is something you really want to change and I will do it. This is really a very lovely skin and I enjoyed putting it on the site. You did a great job and I have given you a Karma point! (You get those when someone clicks on the Exalt link, by the way).
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Post by Magpie on Jun 27, 2005 21:42:00 GMT -6
I think your choices look fine, Stormrider. Sometimes I can't remember why I make the choices I do, but I know part of the reason for keeping some elements the same was just to make it easier on you.
I see you chose not to use the cream color background for the post boxes. But I think the pale green looks fine. In fact... some of you might recognize this as being really close to my website's color scheme.
This was more work than it might seem but I enjoyed it. I played for a long while this morning with a background tile for a Goldberry skin. I learned a lot in the process, but it was all about what didn't work. sigh...
thanks for the karma, babe. ;^)
addendum: a couple of design questions for the members. Do you think the flower images on the main page should have the flowers be smaller within their boxes? Right now, the flower extends almost to the edge of the box. I wonder if they should be smaller within the box. And do you think the elanor flower should say "new" or something to indicate unread posts?
Any other comments are welcome. Design is what I'm training for and comments are helpful for the process.
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Post by Stormrider on Jun 28, 2005 5:18:26 GMT -6
Magpie: I must have read your directions incorrectly about the cream background for the post boxes! I thought you had wanted the lighter green color there! So the reddish brown text would not have looked bad against the cream! That was MY mistake! Actually the cream posting background would probably look very nice! Especially since the buttons have the cream background to them. I can change to cream if you would like me to! Hmmm....now I want to do that to see how it looks! I like the flowers' tips touching the edges of the boxes--they catch your eye. I don't think you need to put "New" on the yellow flower. What I did on some of my images was make them animated to indicate the "New" posts. So how can you animate a flower? lol! Add a bee to it? Have it open? Add light rays? Add sparkles? Although I have to admit, the bright yellow petals do catch your eye very nicely and there is NO mistaking that the yellow is different than the white flower! So to me, that does alert you to a new post. So I don't really think there is anything you really need to do to it.
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Post by Magpie on Jun 28, 2005 7:46:20 GMT -6
Experiment with the skin as much as your interest and your time prompts. (which could be 'not at all')
What I tried to do with the mock web page is to show the three sample areas I could see in the leather skin.
For example, in a thread... one area was a narrow row with dark background. This had the 'search' and 'bookmark' buttons on it.
Another narrow row had a medium color background and had the 'author' and 'topic' text in it.
And then the larger row had the actual post in it with a cream background.
On the mock page, I created three rows, listed the items in that row, suggested a background color and a text color for each.
I always think I'm being thorough in my explanation but I think it's just too much information and it isn't any clearer than if I'd provided too little information. I really wanted to download a page from the forum, change the colors and then upload the new version. But the colors in the table (the boxes) are determined (I think) by javascript coding and I can't change it in FrontPage nor can I adequately read the javascript and change it there. I would change the background color of a box with my FrontPage commands but it wouldn't change since there was a global command elsewhere on the page that was overriding it. And, since some of the items were little images (like the search button) I would have had to do a bit of extra work linking my mock page to those images.
I think your combination of colors worked out quite well and I don't see a need to change them. The cream might lighten it a bit but I think that's a preference that would change from one viewer to the next and I don't think the green is bad.
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Post by Desi Baggins on Jun 28, 2005 7:46:32 GMT -6
I like the Lothlorien skin..........I love those shades of green!
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