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New logo

Postby Doug Coulter » Sat Sep 04, 2010 6:13 pm

I know it stinks -- comments?
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Re: New logo

Postby johnf » Sun Sep 05, 2010 2:20 pm

tis a wee bit green
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Re: New logo

Postby chrismb » Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:26 pm

The only other issue to it being green is that it is a bit black. Take out the green and black and we'll go from there.... :D
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Re: New logo

Postby Doug Coulter » Mon Sep 06, 2010 12:42 pm

I'll see what I can do. I got caught up in this style in "the gimp" editor -- the green are supposed to be particle tracks....I'll see what tweaking I can do, looks as though I could have gone a bit taller as well. It picked up some artifacts when I made the background transparent (imperfectly) -- else it's in a white box -- truly ugly then.
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Re: New logo

Postby Doug Coulter » Thu Sep 09, 2010 1:16 pm

After some trying....well, it still stinks. Does anyone know where I go on PHBB to reserve the size space this shows up in? If I use a long word like Coulter's (which itself isn't settled on) then it gets shrunk horizontally on my browser so it looks nasty from that too. If I had a bit more room (and more suggestions) maybe I can get something nice here. No, we won't do Googles pacman or dancing balls....most colors do look a bit funky on blue background -- red would probably be even worse (and how to change that?) .... but that one that came with the board was pretty lame too.
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Re: New logo

Postby chrismb » Sat Sep 11, 2010 5:36 am

So, no less black, but more green. ;)

How about you have 'Coulter's' in a nice plain font, with the 'o' being your cylindrical fusor with its signature 6-beams coming out of it, two of which cut the name down the middle, with little glows or bifurcations at one or each end?
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Re: New logo

Postby Doug Coulter » Sat Sep 11, 2010 3:16 pm

Sounds good to me if I can figure out how....I'm an amateur at drawing either on paper or computers....
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Re: New logo

Postby MrBain » Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:09 pm

It's little busy
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Re: New logo

Postby Doug Coulter » Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:08 am

Yup, it is. Need to get on that in a spare moment.
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Re: New logo

Postby JonathanH13 » Sat Dec 18, 2010 7:32 am

How about a 'Wood&Water' logo? I know it's not really physics, but it kinda fits with where you live...

I can knock together a high-tech 'fusor' style logo, if you prefer.

With respect to resizing the width, I'm a bit outta my depth here, and I'm not sure if this applies to the phpbb version that you are using, but try this:

Open templates/subSilver/overall_header.tpl

Go to line 227 and change the width from 100% to whatever you want.

Acceptable values would be any percentage or a fixed number of pixels.

If that does not make sense, let me know and I will dig deeper
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