official button contest thread

mm, here is a slightly edited version of the last one on page 2.

I have changed the registered/location/posts font, and I have also created the edit/quote buttons. I have changed the colours aswell, and its darker. I have also changed the blue lines featured throught the background (line, the dividers).

I hope you like it. I will make everything look really professional if it gets the go ahead.



And here are the side icons on the main page


Here is the new header banner (sorry ooseven, just a few tweaks).


If the direct link isn\'t working, try the URL

http://racerps2.50megs.com/racermenu3.jpg
http://racerps2.50megs.com/icons.jpg
http://racerps2.50megs.com/banner2.jpg

[nO-One]

Here\'s a little update of the button I poster before


And DO keep in mind that I will resize the buttons to fit the page.

nO-One, I tried a same kinda technique with my buttons (circle between them), but you have to take into consideration, that the "new thread" button will be used alone too on the main page of each forum, so... well, I atleast dropped the idea, of course there could be a new button on the main pages? Could there? Mods? Please answer? Because if so, I discarded my kewl plan for nothing, boohoo...

So here\'s a little more of my stuff... I made an example page from a random screen grab. I just went wild and replaced even the big title at the top, just couldn\'t help it... I was supposed to do new little pics for all the appropriate buttons, but just fooled around with a few (see if you can spot them).

It\'s 1024×786, so use that rez and you\'ll see it like it\'s... real! Wow! Awesome! :rolleyes:

Somebody, c\'mon, does anyone like this? Hate it? Anyone? No-one?

Dang... almost forgot to post the link! :
http://www.geocities.com/hawkerx13/demo.html

[edit] made some small tweaks.

Originally posted by nO-One
Here\'s a little update of the button I poster before


And DO keep in mind that I will resize the buttons to fit the page.

Just a bit of advice from one artist to another.

Once these buttons have been resized to the correct size, that font is going to be really hard to see/read. That is why you should always create something like buttons the size you are going to use them.

Also, maybe put a black line around the text, only cause it will make the text more defined and easier to read.

[nO-One]

Hawke, I did take that into consideration, that\'s why I intend to cut the circle into two halves, just haven\'t gotten around to it yet. And as I said before I like my first set of new thread/reply buttons with the cut corners the most, simple and elegant.
Anyhoo, I like your buttons alot especially the smaller set of buttons, but I think you should have the lower new thread/reply buttons to the far right aswell, keeping the line like you did looks cool, but it might be harder to implement on a web page as they might not be aligned for everyone.

Racer, I save everything as .psd files, so all layers will be resized independently (spelling?), I\'ll reduce the glow on the text and make the text smaller, so it shouldn\'t be any harder to read.
I just like working with bigger images rather than small ones, and I just made this .jpg file to show a little preview.

[videoholic]

I like Sam Wise\'s Nice and readable..  I also like what I saw of No-ones...

One thing I really wish is can we make the main Playstation Central logo smaller?  It\'s so big that you hardly see even any threads on the screen without paging down.  The reply box isn\'t even on the screen without paging down.

Just squash the thing down a bit...

[nO-One]

Vid look at the screenshot mm posted for me right here
http://www.psx2central.com/temppic/nooneforum.jpg

I replaced the psx logo with a smaller version of the header
You can pretty much ignore the smaller buttons on that page, look fugly and out of place, I\'m currently redesigning them.

Here\'s a preview of what I\'m working on.  The top buttons will probably be changed though.

http://shockwaves.hypermart.net/psx2central.htm

182ways is STILL the man in my book. Don\'t get me wrong, the others have been great too.

[videoholic]

Originally posted by nO-One
Vid look at the screenshot mm posted for me right here
http://www.psx2central.com/temppic/nooneforum.jpg

I replaced the psx logo with a smaller version of the header
You can pretty much ignore the smaller buttons on that page, look fugly and out of place, I\'m currently redesigning them.

Yeah, that\'s what I was thinking.  More like that.

With that big ass advertisement plus the big ass logo, that\'s about all I fit on my 1024X728 screen.  I think I only see 4 threads.

How are you gonna give out the game if you take different aspects from different people, just outta curiosity?  I see a lot of buttons here that I like, and I see a lot of message board banners that I like, but they\'re in different sets.  

No-one - Yours are quite promising.  Just get the circle thing you mentioned done.
Hawke - I really like your PS2 message board button, best so far IMO.
##Racer## - Like your banner and buttons a lot too.  Any more that we could take a gander at?
182ways - Yours are simple, but elegant.  I like \'em!

I\'ll try a new design now. But remember that I can tweak the color, size etc. on the existing ones with ease. And I\'m quite proud of my \'online indicator\' button, which is made to resemble the blue LED on a PS2. It\'s blue when people are online and \'turned off\' when they\'re not.

I really am confused and really cannot figure out Adobe!!!

[nO-One]

Originally posted by FatalXception
No-one - Yours are quite promising.  Just get the circle thing you mentioned done.

Thanks
But that\'s just one set, I\'m working on a bunch of\'em.
The first has the cut corners, the 2nd has the circlem so far I\'ve only posted two of them.

I will try to make it attach this, I made it in paint, cuz I cannot figure out Adobe!