About the (eventual) skin

[PointyHairedJedi]

I was just thinking, it would be really cool Zeke if you created five different skins for the board that are all the same bar the ship that appears in the top left hand logo deely. Being able to pick which series you want displayed would be very very nice indeed, and not all that much work, surely?

[KillerGodMan]

There's an idea, because let me tell you, I'd much rather have the Enterprise D or E than the NX-01

[Zeke]

I've had this idea before. The bad news is, it won't work. The good news is, I have another idea which might.

The thing about skins is that each one has its own folder of .tpl files which are templates for the various pages. That means that every time I make a modification to the forums -- the suggested gender mod, for example -- I have to edit the relevant .tpl files in both of our current skins. Those files aren't quite identical, so I have to edit and upload them separately just to be safe. You see the problem: if we had a skin for every ship you guys might want in the forum logo, maintenance would become a nightmare.

However, I think there's another way to do it. What I can do is add another field to the user profile allowing you guys to choose from various logos. Based on your choice, the forum header template could then load the appropriate logo (as long as you were logged in). That would be more work than the gender mod, but I think I could do it.

A simpler alternative would just be to make a bunch of logos and make the selection random. I might try that first.

[Chancellor Valium]

Ooh! I like the second one! Can one of them be a salmon?
:D

[mudshark]

^ The Salmon of Doubt?

[Sa'ar Chasm]

^ I wouldn't think so. Seems kinds fishy.

[Zeke]

^ The Salmon of Doubt?

Attaboy. If you're gonna pun, do it Gently.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

ARRRRGH!

Stealth puns. You never see them coming.

[Chancellor Valium]

^ The Salmon of Doubt?

Attaboy. If you're gonna pun, do it Gently.

You never do detect these things until it's too late.

It's holly iritating.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

Zeke's the master of the stealth pun. He's a bit of a dirk that way.

[Chancellor Valium]

Zeke's the master of the stealth pun. He's a bit of a dirk that way.

Gently does it! You don't want to offend him...

[Sa'ar Chasm]

We've done that one already.

If he does get offended, he can go drown his sorrows in a gin sea.

[e of pi]

The puns! They burn! But in a good way!

[whoiam]

I've had this idea before. The bad news is, it won't work. The good news is, I have another idea which might.

The thing about skins is that each one has its own folder of .tpl files which are templates for the various pages. That means that every time I make a modification to the forums -- the suggested gender mod, for example -- I have to edit the relevant .tpl files in both of our current skins. Those files aren't quite identical, so I have to edit and upload them separately just to be safe. You see the problem: if we had a skin for every ship you guys might want in the forum logo, maintenance would become a nightmare.

However, I think there's another way to do it. What I can do is add another field to the user profile allowing you guys to choose from various logos. Based on your choice, the forum header template could then load the appropriate logo (as long as you were logged in). That would be more work than the gender mod, but I think I could do it.

A simpler alternative would just be to make a bunch of logos and make the selection random. I might try that first.

Sorry I didn't butt in sooner, but wouldn't it be possible to create the extra folders for the alternate layouts, and just redirect the requests for .tpl files through the strategic use of mod_rewrite and a .htaccess file?

Or, better yet, I know there are ways to use a php file to dynamically select the image that gets displayed... say that you add one field to each user's profile where they select which ship they'd like to see, and then point the layout at a php script for displaying the pic they'd chosen?

*is gonna try making that one himself*

[KillerGodMan]

^You do that, I'll be in that corner moping because I had NO idea what you just said

[whoiam]

okay, I'll try again..

php - the scripting language that this forum is written in - typically has the ability to manipulate images built into it. It is possible to create a php script which you can call as an image file, and which will just return an image when called.

I use one such script to make thumbnails for my photo gallery.

The point is, that you could set the image to link to one of these scripts instead of to an actual file, and you could have the script look up with ship the person in question prefers, and send out the correct image file for that person. Only one style, a slight modification to the database, a slight modification to the signup and profiles pages, and 1 fairly straightforward php script and you're laughing.

[Chancellor Valium]

We've done that one already.

I know, but I couldn't think of another :)

Besides, Zeke is hoarding all the puns in caverns measureless to man...

[Zeke]

Sorry I didn't butt in sooner, but wouldn't it be possible to create the extra folders for the alternate layouts, and just redirect the requests for .tpl files through the strategic use of mod_rewrite and a .htaccess file?

I've never heard of mod_rewrite, and I've heard of .htaccess but I have no idea what it is. I would need to do research before I'd even understand this idea.

Or, better yet, I know there are ways to use a php file to dynamically select the image that gets displayed... say that you add one field to each user's profile where they select which ship they'd like to see, and then point the layout at a php script for displaying the pic they'd chosen?

That sounds exactly the same difficulty as the idea I posted, so I'll try mine first. Thanks for the advice, though.

[whoiam]

mod_rewrite's an apache module for doing slightly more complicated redirects - for instance, redirecting every url containing '.tpl' to a different folder.

.htaccess is a 'supplementary' configuration file for apache that sits in the directory it's meant to affect.

I'm going to modify one of the test forums I keep to try and get the dynamic image generator working, if you want to give that mod a try, let me know.

[whoiam]

Okay, I just spent awhile sketching out the first half of an idea...
(this needs mod_rewrite - ask your host if that's available)

First up, the two example files I made you can find at http://thirdcursus.com/partial-mod.zip

Now, the way I made this section of the mod work is to move all the contents of the /templates/<templatename>/images/ folder to a new folder (I used /templates/<templatename>/target/ when I was writing it). Then edit the .htaccess file so that it contains the proper URL for the folder you moved the images to. (There's only one URL in the file, so just change that to the URL you've used), and place it in the now-empty images folder.

Next, you need to edit the spic.php file. The 6 variables at the top will need to be replaced with ones that will allow read access to the phpbb_users table (or whatever you named your equivalent).

The first variable ($field) needs to be set to the field in the users table that will be used to store the person's choice of picture. the second, $default, is the picture you want someone to see if they haven't made a selection yet.

The spic.exe file then goes into the 'target' folder along with the images.

This system also needs you to add one field to the user table (remember to allow this to be null, or you'll have to modify the signup process as well), and to modify the profile page to allow people to chose options from a drop-down box to go into that field.

*grins* That was an hour well-wasted, I think.

Anyway, this is the code from the two files, feel free to play around with it.

Options All
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)/?$ http://www.thirdcursus.com/forum/templates/subsilver/target/spic.php?file=$1 [R=301,L]


<?php
$field = "replace_me";
$default = "defaultpic.gif";
$hostname_con1 = "localhost";
$database_con1 = "forum";
$table_con1 = "phpbb_users";
$username_con1 = "root";
$password_con1 = "xxx";

// File
$filename = $_GET['file'];


if (eregi ("logo_phpbb.gif", $filename)) {

define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = '../../../';
include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc');
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx);
$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_PROFILE);
init_userprefs($userdata);

$user = $userdata['user_id'];

$con1 = mysql_connect($hostname_con1, $username_con1, $password_con1) or trigger_error(mysql_error(),E_USER_ERROR);

$query_Recordset1 = "SELECT `$field` FROM `$table_con1` where `user_id` = '$user'";
$Recordset1 = mysql_query($query_Recordset1, $con1) or die(mysql_error());
$row_Recordset1 = mysql_fetch_assoc($Recordset1);
$totalRows_Recordset1 = mysql_num_rows($Recordset1);

$filename = $row_Recordset1[$field];
if($filename=='') { $filename = $default; }
// Content type
header('Content-type: image/gif');

// Load
$source = imagecreatefromgif($filename);

// Output
imagegif($source);

}elseif (eregi ("\.jpg", $filename)) {

header('Content-type: image/jpg');

// Load
$source = imagecreatefromjpeg($filename);

// Output
imagejpeg($source);

}elseif(eregi ("\.gif", $filename))
{
// Content type
header('Content-type: image/gif');

// Load
$source = imagecreatefromgif($filename);

// Output
imagegif($source);
}elseif(eregi ("\.htm", $filename)) {
include('index.htm');
}
?>

[Chancellor Valium]

My...Brain...Hurts...
:P

[Sa'ar Chasm]

elseif(eregi

I think I've met her.

[whoiam]

elseif(eregi

I think I've met her.

.....?

[e of pi]

Huh?

[Sa'ar Chasm]

Elseif Eregi. I think I've met her.

[whoiam]

...you know, it is possible to make a worse joke then that one. Just not easy.

[e of pi]

Anyone wanna try?

[Zeke]

I try all the time. Doesn't it show?

By the way, that round of Dirk Gently references makes me wonder -- what do you guys think of it? I've only read the first one so far, and it was great stuff, but I found the ending really, really fanboyish. (Bach was a great composer, to be sure, but blessed with the music of the spheres?)

whoiam: Thanks very much -- I'll check your stuff out as soon as I've taken care of some more immediate things.

[Scooter]

By the way, that round of Dirk Gently references makes me wonder -- what do you guys think of it? I've only read the first one so far, and it was great stuff, but I found the ending really, really fanboyish. (Bach was a great composer, to be sure, but blessed with the music of the spheres?)
The problem with the first Dirk Gently book is that it's a recycling of a Doctor Who script on which production was started but never completed ("Shada"). So the original inspiration had to be revised and redirected, and the book ended up being a hybrid that didn't have its own soul (though it still has some great moments).

For this reason, imho, the second Gently novel, which grew out of the character and not the need to recycle a story, is superior to the first.

[Chancellor Valium]

By the way, that round of Dirk Gently references makes me wonder -- what do you guys think of it? I've only read the first one so far, and it was great stuff, but I found the ending really, really fanboyish. (Bach was a great composer, to be sure, but blessed with the music of the spheres?)
The problem with the first Dirk Gently book is that it's a recycling of a Doctor Who script on which production was started but never completed ("Shada"). So the original inspiration had to be revised and redirected, and the book ended up being a hybrid that didn't have its own soul (though it still has some great moments).

For this reason, imho, the second Gently novel, which grew out of the character and not the need to recycle a story, is superior to the first.

Life, the Universe and Everything was a recycled DW script too, y'know ;)

On DGHDA:
It's very Adamsy. It's very funny. It's utterly insane. I prefer "The Long, Dark Teatime of the soul." ;)

[Celeste]

Niiiiiice job, Zeke. ::clicks reload to see all the new Forum piccies::

[e of pi]

Ohhh....Andromeda...shiny....

[Ginga]

*presses F5 a lot* Niiiice.

[e of pi]

Alright. While I like the idea, and the basic effect, there is one thing that bugs me. The images are different heights, so the main body of the forum starts in a different place depending on which image it is. Any chance of fixing this?

[Zeke]

It bugs me too, but by the time I realized the problem, it was late and I was exhausted from making six of these things in a row. Look, images by me are temporary, all right, guys? I have someone with genuine experience working on new graphics for the whole site. When we have a proper skin for this forum, I guarantee the graphics will look professional.

[e of pi]

Okay. It's pretty minor, anyway. Glad to hear about you getting some help with this.

[Zeke]

By the way, anyone who has an all-consuming hunger to see the full set of images will find them here (templates/subFiver/images/banners/).

[e of pi]

Looking at them all at once, I think I like the E-E one best.

[danieldoof]

yep yep yep yep yep yep and yep

I have seen them all :D
should download them

and defend them

[Zeke]

To defend them from... their enemies.

(Sorry. ReBoot moment.)

DS9 is my favourite so far. It's vivid.

[evay]

I like the VOY one best, with the NX-01 a close second.

[danieldoof]

btw....I want to have a 3d clock for myself...or do I have to make it?

please someone help

[Zeke]

You already have the most 3D clock around, DD. But I take it you mean a "new-style" clock logo like the one in my avatar (and the one I just made for evay). I'll make a blank clock image available shortly when I redo the forum FAQ, where I'll also explain the rules for its use. I don't mind this trend of everyone having clock avatars, but there does need to be a distinction between official and unofficial ones.

[danieldoof]

therefore I wrote the pm you probably have read :wink:

to ask for permission because you created the logo
but I have not found one of the new 3d-kind blank yet...

[Zeke]

There isn't one -- that's why I said I would make one available shortly.

[Derek]

You already have the most 3D clock around, DD.
I know I only go by Derek on the forums, but I always do a double take when someone else's addressed as DD.

[danieldoof]

HEH

btw....what the f... have I started with my avvi :wink:

[Chancellor Valium]

Hey, Zeke, are you gonna add a TARDIS one eventually, too?

[Celeste]

Ooooo... shiny. I like the DS9 one the best, with Voy a close second. Nebulars are teh awesome.

[e of pi]

A TARDIS would be most logical, thus, it will never happen on this forum.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=89

[Anonymous]

So?

[Sa'ar Chasm]

So it's a TARDIS.

[e of pi]

But it's not in the upper lefthand corner.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

*smacks forehead*

Sorry, I got a bit confused. People were talking about avatars. Carry on.

[Xeroc]

btw....I want to have a 3d clock for myself...or do I have to make it?

please someone help
I can give you a blank version of the one I have, if you want! :D

[e of pi]

I'll take one. Hit me.

[Xeroc]

I'll take one. Hit me.
Here ya go... Jack of Spades. You bust.


Okay, okay... here it is, pre-scaled to 100x100 for your avataring enjoyment! :D


http://xeroc.zapto.org/images/clock.png


Also, I reccomend PNG's for this one, as it just looks the best, but they're still small at (for the clock) 5.54 kB.

[e of pi]

Thanks muchly. :)

[Scooter]

Hey, Zeke, are you gonna add a TARDIS one eventually, too?
*cough*

[Gatac]

My Paintshop Pro-fu is weak, but I whipped up a Grammaton Cleric clock icon thingie. Yay.

Gatac

[e of pi]

I'll get around to it. "Soon."

[Zeke]

It's not a requirement. I dread the day when every avatar on this ship agrees with mine. </Janeway>

[e of pi]

Well, I'll just play Zuke's advocate, then.

[whoiam]

That day will never come, Zeke - whatever else happens, you can trust my laziness to prevent a full house:D

[Ginga]

It's not a requirement. I dread the day when every avatar on this ship agrees with mine. </Janeway>

XD!

[e of pi]

XD? Buwha?

[whoiam]

I think it's supposed to be an indication of amusement.

But, the majority of the world knows this as a type of flash memory (http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_xd.asp).

[Sa'ar Chasm]

Or a deuterated halide written the wrong way round.

[Zeke]

You know, it's really a very common emoticon. No need to make Ginga feel like she's speaking Chinese. If you need it explained, XD represents laughing so hard your eyes close.

If you want weird, try those face-on/manga emoticons like ^_^.

[whoiam]

You know, it's really a very common emoticon. No need to make Ginga feel like she's speaking Chinese. If you need it explained, XD represents laughing so hard your eyes close.

If you want weird, try those face-on/manga emoticons like ^_^.

Being pedantic, neither of them is really an emoticon - an emoticon being the image that they're used as shortcuts for - they're much closer to being traditional ASCII art.

And the XD one is particularly annoying because I've been using them (the memory cards) for about 2 years now... it still rankles that everytime I talk to someone about photography online they think I'm making fun of them :(

Of course, the correct response when someone uses '^_^' on you is to ask what happened to their nose... :wink:

[Sa'ar Chasm]

No, *this* is weird:

*(B||
___\\

A guy wearing a toque, ski goggles, and a scarf (although in this particular font the goggles look a little misshapen).
(also, ignore the grey line - it's to make things line up and I don't know what the background colour is.)
(I'm putting way too much effort into this.)

[Ginga]

Or a deuterated halide written the wrong way round.

Or a Pokémon game, actually...

Nobody's ever seen an XD before? Well, at least Zeke has. Sillies. :lol:

[Hotaru]

I've seen XD before.

Things I've learned from FFXI:

^-^ <---happy
;_; <----sad

>;_;< <----bat

orz <---hitting head on the floor, see the o is the head, the r is the body and arm, and the z is the legs.

>_< <---- angry-unbelieving

-_- <---"whut?"

~_^ <--- wink

~_~ <--- sleepy

o.o<--- "Oh My God!"

¬_¬ <----shifty eyes

>.> <---easily made shifty eyes

<(^-^<)
(>^-^)> <-----happy dancers

(x.x)O=(.-O) <---punching someone

There's more, but I can't remember them ^^; <--- Silly mistake sweatdrop face.

[Xeroc]

Funny thing, I thought it was Intel's Execute Disable Bit (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/E/Execute_Disable_Bit.html)! ;)

[Ginga]

*applauds Hotaru's post*

Don't forget the kitties... and other things, too.

:3 - Cat
X3 - Happy cat
>:3 - evil cat
3:< - angry fanged thing
>:[ - angry face
DX - Ack! face
D:< - Angry shocked face
D: - Shocked face
._. - looking down, ashamed

Oh, and also, there's Lexy's ;D - winking happy face.

[Chancellor Valium]

While we're at it, what is "ttyl"?

[evay]

While we're at it, what is "ttyl"?
Talk To You Later.

NetLingo (http://www.netlingo.com/inframes.cfm) is really really useful for looking this stuff up, if you're interested.

[Zeke]

Following up on a comment from e of pi... arrrrgh. You're right. The different heights of those new banners are driving me nuts. When I get home I'll rework them -- they're pretty quick to make with my current program.

Speaking of which, those who, like me, have struggled to find a good freeware image editor would be well advised to try Ultimate Paint, the one I'm using now. It takes getting used to, but far less than a monstrosity like The GIMP; it's powerful enough for my needs, and best of all, it doesn't nag. Check it out.

[whoiam]

I didn't find the GIMP all that hard to get used to...

Admittedly, I came to it off the back of 3 or 4 years on Paint Shop Pro 6, 7 amd 8 - a suite that has the same manic love of hiding options menus in the damdest places...

[Chancellor Valium]

I think the Great One is referring to the fact that the GIMP is a memory hog like few others...

[e of pi]

Following up on a comment from e of pi... arrrrgh. You're right.

Aren't I always? Wait, don't asnwer that.

[Chancellor Valium]

Following up on a comment from e of pi... arrrrgh. You're right.

Aren't I always?

GAH! Say that again, and you'll be exiled to Kalamazoo ('though you'll eat ham and eggs in Carolina), for forty thousand days.

:P

[Zeke]

I think the Great One is referring to the fact that the GIMP is a memory hog like few others...

No, whoiam was right. I'm referring to the learning curve, which so far has been too steep for me to climb on a spare-time basis.

What does Gretzky have to do with anything?

[e of pi]

I gave GIMP a shot, but was utterly stumped. Unfortunately, my PhotoShop bias crippled me.

[Xeroc]

Actually, I'd say I like Photoshop the best so far, but Paint Shop Pro is quicker and more efficient for some tasks.

[Scooter]

No, *this* is weird:

*(B||
___\\

A guy wearing a toque, ski goggles, and a scarf (although in this particular font the goggles look a little misshapen).
(also, ignore the grey line - it's to make things line up and I don't know what the background colour is.)
(I'm putting way too much effort into this.)
Looks like a power drill mounted on a counter to me.
What does Gretzky have to do with anything?
Or Gleason?

[Sa'ar Chasm]

I'm referring to the learning curve, which so far has been too steep for me to climb on a spare-time basis.

I first read that as "space-time", which made me wonder just how much virtual mass GIMP has, and how dense it's packed.

[e of pi]

It's pretty dense. And since apparently all the smart people here, no offense to Zeke, have figured it out, I'm feeling rather dense as well.

[Xeroc]

It's pretty dense. And since apparently all the smart people here, no offense to Zeke, have figured it out, I'm feeling rather dense as well.
Dense enough to create its own reasonably strong gravitational attractive force?

[Zeke]

He said as well, not gravity well.

[Chancellor Valium]

Are you sure? Are you sure what he said doesn't depend on your position in space-time (and when you last had lunch with Zaphod Beeblebrox)?

[danieldoof]

Dense enough to create its own reasonably strong gravitational attractive force?

hey you talking about me arent you? :wink:

[Xeroc]

Dense enough to create its own reasonably strong gravitational attractive force?

hey you talking about me arent you? :wink:
Well, I did use the singular form. ;)

[Chancellor Valium]

Dense enough to create its own reasonably strong gravitational attractive force?

hey you talking about me arent you? :wink:
Well, I did use the singular form. ;)

Hole-y Moses, that's singularly awful. It's breached a new event horizon of craptitude.

[PointyHairedJedi]

I first read that as "space-time", which made me wonder just how much virtual mass GIMP has, and how dense it's packed.
Actually, that would explain where all the dark matter is hiding rather nicely.

[e of pi]

I first read that as "space-time", which made me wonder just how much virtual mass GIMP has, and how dense it's packed.
Actually, that would explain where all the dark matter is hiding rather nicely.

Hmmm. Interesting theory. So it's in the color selector?

[PointyHairedJedi]

You'd think so, but no. That would be too obvious, you see.

[e of pi]

So where?

[danieldoof]

he could tell you but then he would have to kill you.....with PIE

[Chancellor Valium]

Sigh. The alpha channel options. Duh :roll:

[e of pi]

Ohhhhhhh. Right. Got it. :wink: Or at least I can pretend I do. :wink:

[Zeke]

I've redone the images -- they're now uniformly 300x200, and I hope you'll like the text better now. The seven of them can be seen together here (http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/templates/subFiver/images/banners/).

[e of pi]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice. 8) <- What does this mean? :arrow: <What function does this serve? :mrgreen: <And this? Do I even need to ask?

[Derek]

Those images are bigger than before, aren't they?

:arrow: <What function does this serve?
You can use it in a number of ways:

:arrow: Bullet points
:arrow: Results in (i.e., λογο + ς :arrow: λόγος )
:arrow: "I'm with stupid" jokes
:arrow: Something to put in your :bow:
etc.

Hopefully that should clear things up.

[e of pi]

Oh. Okay. And the green thing?

[Zeke]

Those images are bigger than before, aren't they?

Yep. It occurred to me that nobody has a smaller resolution than 800x600 anymore, and even that's getting rare.

:arrow: Something to put in your :bow:

I should make an actual bow emoticon to punish you for that.

[e of pi]

I didn't get it.

[Derek]

Read it without the graphic.

:arrow: Something to put in your :bow:

[Chancellor Valium]

8) <- What does this mean? :arrow: <What function does this serve? :mrgreen: <And this? Do I even need to ask?

No :P

Nice stuff Zeke :)

[Zeke]

I've added four new banners to the rotation. The full set is, as always, visible here (http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/templates/subFiver/images/banners/).

Hmm... I think I'll switch B5 and Firefly's colour codes.

[Derek]

A Smallville one? Intriguing..... No. Wait. Boring. Pull off his kneecaps!

[Zeke]

But... but I kneed those!

[Scooter]

I've added four new banners to the rotation. The full set is, as always, visible here (http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/templates/subFiver/images/banners/).
Looks like the Doctor is visiting the Mutara Nebula again...

[Zeke]

Which tells you it's not the Ninth Doctor, of course. It's London, Cardiff, or nothing with that guy.

What do you all think of the Smallville banner? It was the most difficult to come up with, because I don't want to start using actors. The S logo is from Superman Returns.

[Xeroc]

What do you all think of the Smallville banner? It was the most difficult to come up with, because I don't want to start using actors. The S logo is from Superman Returns.
I think it looks fine! :D


The only thing is, on the Dr. Who and the B5 especially, the text is really hard to read.

[Scooter]

Which tells you it's not the Ninth Doctor, of course. It's London, Cardiff, or nothing with that guy.
My own fiver quoted back at me. Sweet.
the text is really hard to read.
Harry Kim: Wait, where am I? I can't read the banner.... I'm so confused!

[PointyHairedJedi]

There's a really excellent fan-made image of the TARDIS in the time vortex here (http://groups.msn.com/DoctorWhoArt/photoalbum1.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=70) - I don't know if it would be okay to use without asking, but I probably would just to be on the safe side.

[Derek]

What do you all think of the Smallville banner? It was the most difficult to come up with, because I don't want to start using actors. The S logo is from Superman Returns.
Looks good to me. Thanks for making it, Zeke.

The only thing is, on the Dr. Who and the B5 especially, the text is really hard to read.
Maybe not hard to read per se, but it doesn't stand out. Maybe the lettering for those two should have white outlines and shadows instead?

[Sa'ar Chasm]

Maybe the lettering for those two should have white outlines and shadows instead?

...or different colours...

*cough*

Aside from that, it looks great.

[e of pi]

Neat.

[Xeroc]

the text is really hard to read.
Harry Kim: Wait, where am I? I can't read the banner.... I'm so confused!
:P Seriously, it doesn't look so hot when the text is barely differentiable from the background.*


* I mean, dtxt/dwhy = 10 ^ -47, to show my point mathematically.

[danieldoof]

I mean, dtxt/dwhy = 10 ^ -47, to show my point mathematically.

Bwahahahaha :twisted: