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PostPosted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:15 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

@SacredCultivator What's the use of posting if you're the only one who can read it?

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:59 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

I have a friend that's partially color blind also use similar color scheme. Apparently, grayish blue and gray appear completely contrast to him and he doesn't understand that these colors are very similar to normal eyes.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:59 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

haha I am sure I am not the only one that can read it... And heck, I simply asked if it was too much to just let me know rather than to offend me like that Bugsie. Sheesh you could have just kindly have said to change to default or something rather than to post what you did...

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 5:04 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

SacredCultivator wrote:
Bugsie. Sheesh you could have just kindly have said to change to default or something rather than to post what you did...

I realized that too. pale But it sure looks good now! Laugh Offtopic!

EDIT: Good thing a "TACTLESS" banner doesn't exist.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:03 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

groink wrote:
jholic wrote:
therefore, if i want to say chunu is a 'ccc', 3.jpg shows up as her banner. if we have animated gifs with multiple titles, i would have to make an animated gif for every combination of titles we would have.

in other words: admin, mod, fansubber, uploader, timer, seeder. i would need to make a gif for EVERY combination of these six titles.

There is a such thing as a scriptable GIF, using a CGI on the server end. I've seen this done in avatars, where the person's avatar is actually a PHP script. With some coding and a GIF creation library on the server, you can basically build the animated GIF banner on-the-fly, thereby eliminating the issue of creating a infinate number of combinations. The only drawback to this, however, is the use of CPU cycles on the server end.

Here are some sample code links:

Random avatar script
http://www.fungifun.org/English/Avatar

Random Avatars Mod 1.0.17
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=291564

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But the problem with that would be that if you're randomizing or generating images you're going to be using a lot more bandwidth then you normally would since they stop browsers from caching the images.. I don't think it'd be worth it..
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:22 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

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But the problem with that would be that if you're randomizing or generating images you're going to be using a lot more bandwidth then you normally would since they stop browsers from caching the images.. I don't think it'd be worth it..

Architectually, it would use no more bandwidth than a static GIF. Scripts are run on the server end as CGIs. The scripts are not sent to the browser and processed in the browser. As I mentioned earlier, it will use more CPU cycles. And, as far as caching is concerned, we're taking very little additional bandwidth on the part of the browser; the typical banner would be about 45KB (right now, a banner is around 15KB). Your average news site (CNN, etc.) takes a lot more hits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:31 am    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

what do you guys think about having TEXT-ONLY banners?

with text only banners, we could have all kinds of titles and stuff, without worries about overloading the server.

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:27 am    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

Text only banners? That's better. Or perhaps a "custom title", like... "Drama Overlord" (or whatever).

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:51 am    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

Hehe I think Text-Only would mean 'custom titles' =P, but hey I am all up for that as well.

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:25 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

Text banners is a fine idea, I'm just wondering what will it look like.

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:57 pm    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

im also curious as to what a text would look like. but like most of you guys have mentioned, categorizing the whole fansubbing thing into timers, Qcer's, and translators, seems a bit too much. leaving it broad, in my opinion, seems fine.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:00 am    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

maybe take the original titles(or make a new one)...use a blank one with no title and just place text over the image? keep it looking like before but allowing custom titles w/o server overload.

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/web_graphics/article.php/348002

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just testing my sig

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:15 am    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

I wonder how the banners are going.... Roll Eyes
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:55 am    Post subject:    Post Rating: 0 Reply with quote

i am guilty of not seeing this project through.

i should have more time to work on this in a month and a half....

if another mod or member would like to start it before then, please let me know. we are planning to hold a contest for the banner design. but before that, we hope to finalize the TITLES that will be used.

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