TLS GFX

Tennyo

Tennyo

Higher Further Faster
Could the gallery be divided up by game, perchance? Also, there will probably be multiples of each wallpaper in order to compensate for different resolutions. Not sure how to handle that. Links under each thumbnail? Different subgroups?

Should I wait until you get it all set up, or go make the thread now? Perhaps a site announcement should be made to get people's attention? :)
 
Cthulhu

Cthulhu

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Yop
It could, yes. And as for multiple resolutions, I reckon a wallpaper can be posted just as easily in an album as as a separate image. Links under each thumbnail won't be possible, I think, so unless we're going for wallpaper-only images (in which case I could try to find wallpaper website software), I think the albums thing is better. Of course, there might be an addon / module for the system to support wallpaper resolutions - I'll go check.

l'Edit: Nope. Seems there was an option in the previous Gallery version to offer multiple resolutions for download of an image, but it hasn't (yet?) been included in the newer version we're using. So, for now, I'd say that if you have a wallpaper and offer it in multiple resolutions, create an album instead of a separate image until development of either the software itself or a module for it has advanced enough to support wallpaper-like sites.

Edit: Yes, this means I've got a (neat) gallery set up already, see http://thelifestream.net/images. It also (supposedly) supports videos, in MP4 or FLV format.
 
Tennyo

Tennyo

Higher Further Faster
Okay. So I'm thinking, an album for each game, then subgroups for the different resolutions? :D

I like it. :) I'll go create a topic for it now in the GFX section if you think we're ready. :)
 
Cthulhu

Cthulhu

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Yop
Sure, but there should be a main 'wallpapers' section on the front page, imho. Feel free to go ahead with it though.

I'm thinking we (the chiefs) will make (and organize, if need be) the main categories, and allow everyone else (if registered) to chuck pictures (and, if need be, albums) into those categories.
 
Tennyo

Tennyo

Higher Further Faster
I may be just missing it, but I don't see a wallpaper section. lol

That said, I'm thinking it could go Game > Resolutions > Wallpapers. Or Resolutions > Games > Wallpapers, whichever you prefer.

That said, Imma go make the thread now. In the GFX section so that way it gets more love. <3

Also, I'm thinking that each wallpaper should say, "TheLifestream.net," on there somewhere, yes yes?
 
Pixel

Pixel

The Pixie King
You're welcome to use the logo in my sig for that :)

Whats the most popular resolution btw? Im at 1680x1050. So id love if there were some nice big widescreen ones.

It'd be awesome if Neon could do some renders of his Midgar Model as awsome wallpapers for the site. Once I have some characters modelled, I can probably do some nice renders:joy:
 
Tennyo

Tennyo

Higher Further Faster
Oh, the logo in your sig would be very awesome. Do you have a copy without the glow at all?

Also I'm at 1440x900, so widescreen wallpapers are good. :) I'll make all future ones at your resolution, Pix. Would be easy to simply downsize from there. :)
 
Loxetta

Loxetta

Pro Adventurer
It'd be nice if there could be a section for some users to upload resource images -- such as the Midgar model shots, or Pixel's sig -- so that people that make wallpapers could download and use them. Like, a while back I read earlier in this thread about a lack of Black materia images so I made a high-res image of it that's been gathering dust in my files, and I wouldn't mind coughing it up for wallpapermakers to use.
 
Loxetta

Loxetta

Pro Adventurer
BlackMateria25PercentSample.jpg

There it is in case anyone wants to know what it looks like. That's only 25% the size of the original image, where the materia is 2000px in diameter. :monster: I'd like to upload the PSD document somewhere so that the person using them could have the layers separate and be able to change the color of the reflections to fit the rest of the image and not have to cut out all the white, but I dunno where I would put the file. Rapidshare or something?
 
Cthulhu

Cthulhu

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Yop
Tennyo said:
I may be just missing it, but I don't see a wallpaper section. lol

That said, I'm thinking it could go Game > Resolutions > Wallpapers. Or Resolutions > Games > Wallpapers, whichever you prefer.

That said, Imma go make the thread now. In the GFX section so that way it gets more love. <3

Also, I'm thinking that each wallpaper should say, "TheLifestream.net," on there somewhere, yes yes?
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You're missing it, :monster:. And resolutions should, for logic's sake, always be the lowest category, imho. Wallpapers -> Game / topic / category -> resolution is imho, and it keeps the equal wallpapers together.

I'd go for the TLS logo to be optional for whoever wants it to be there.

Pixel said:
Whats the most popular resolution btw? Im at 1680x1050. So id love if there were some nice big widescreen ones.
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Code: 
1280x800   8,147  22.21%	
1024x768   7,920  21.59%	
1440x900   4,885  13.32%	
1280x1024 4,106  11.19%	
1680x1050 2,307  6.29%	
1366x768   2,095  5.71%	
1152x864   827     2.25%	
1920x1080  810   2.21%	
1920x1200  574	1.56%	
1280x768    571  1.56%
 
Tennyo

Tennyo

Higher Further Faster
TLS logo would be optional, but I'm thinking wallpapers should at least say the site name on there somewhere. :)
 
Pixel

Pixel

The Pixie King
Time to dig up this thread :D

Ive been trying to redesign the banner slightly to get rid of the home, forums, shop, donate, and this is what ive come up with

lifestreambanner5-1.gif


I was hoping to have some sort of dropdown menu within the part at the bottom of the banner, but im not sure how. If anyone has any ideas, let me know, or just any constructive criticism/whatever about the design in general
 
Shademp

Shademp

420
I've been trying to figure out what sort of dropdown menus we can have there, but for the love of me I can't figure it out. =/

My basic outline is that the left sidebar will be for official material, while the right sidebar will be more for fan-made stuff. However I really want to use the bottom of the banner, as you suggest. We need to use that space.
 
Cthulhu

Cthulhu

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Yop
You forget that someone also has to code up that dropdown menu, :monster:. Which I could do, of course. Just poke me next weekend or something.
 
Shademp

Shademp

420
Flintlock said:
I hope a Chat link is very prominent on the new menu :)
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I'm confused now... When I became an admin, I noticed a link under Information to a "Chat". But now it is there even when I am logged out.
I figured I'd try the chat, but I have no idea how it works and I'm not sure if I might accidentally screw something up with my new "powers". =/

It's not that I plan to use the feature, but it would be nice to understand it a bit more.
 
Flintlock

Flintlock

Pro Adventurer
Oh hey, it's next to "User CP" on the forum controls now. Just noticed. Is that what you were talking about?

We saw you join the chat room, say hello and leave, so you must have done something right :) I'm pretty sure you can't screw anything up. Having admin power on the forums isn't the same as having it in the IRC channel.
 
Shademp

Shademp

420
Flintlock said:
Oh hey, it's next to "User CP" on the forum controls now. Just noticed. Is that what you were talking about?

We saw you join the chat room, say hello and leave, so you must have done something right :) I'm pretty sure you can't screw anything up. Having admin power on the forums isn't the same as having it in the IRC channel.
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I have WordPress/Frontpage admin powers, not forum admin powers.
Though I did suspect that simply accessing the channel would be harmless, but I wasn't 100% sure.

Edit: Ah, so the chat is more of a forum thing? I accessed it via the frontpage, but yes I can see it here on the forums too... BLEH. I'm such a confuzzled mess.
 
Shademp

Shademp

420
Ok, I've done some thinking and this is what I come up with...

Left sidebar: Official FFVII stuff
Right sidebar: Fan-made FFVII stuff
Bottom-of-banner: Non-FFVII links

I do not know what Pixel had in mind for the menu dropdowns in the last category, but the aforementioned is what feels right to me.

With the POWER OF PAINT, and the section headers Pixel already gave me, I see this design with the following categories for the bottom of the top image:
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The right sidebar looks a little empty, but I can easily see more section headers being there.

Here are the dropdown-menu links I imagine, whether it is drop-down or drop-up. :monster: (nvm the lack of color here)

MCVno.png
or
K2kVB.png

Depending on whether we want the menus to scroll down or up (in the latter maybe the links should be reversed). I imagine that they appear just by moving the arrow over either of the four categories at the bottom of the banner.

"Main Page" and "History" are yet to be made. The former may be re-named, but some form of quick introductory page with some extra content indexes.
I'm also not sure what to do with the "Search News" function, if it should be part of the "Browse Archives" page, or elsewhere.

"Staff List" is presently being put together.



As I did this, I've begun reconsidering an old idea of mine... Previously, I was of the thought that you were to click on the section headers in either sidebar, which would then have a list of links rain down just below it for you to pick. BUT if we are going to have that extra click anyway to make the list appear (instead of always having it there, which is NOT an option because there will be a SHITTON of links no matter how we organize it), then maybe the supra-index for a title should appear in the central/content column instead. Might help the presentation.

It would also mean the necessity to code only ONE dropdown-menu system. :awesome:
 
Flintlock

Flintlock

Pro Adventurer
I know those are only drafts, but here are my thoughts:

The drop-down menus look better down than up.

Those category buttons on the left and right-hand sides are very difficult to read.

A better menu heading than "other" would be good.
 
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