Banner and Whose Online? Image Request for my Mom's Forum

Mar

2011

Nature of the Creation:
Banner and Whose Online? Images.
Size (In Pixels):
Banner: 952px × 362px
Whose Online?: 320px × 320px
With or Without Animation:
None, unless you wish to be creative. I'm not too picky. Smile

Main Colors:
#A35971 (Pastel Berry-Purple)
#DBCDA8 (Cheesecake Yellow)
Black
Pictures & Links:
Muffin, our Mascot
Old Banner
Old Whose Online? Image
Text to Insert :
Banner:
Main Header: The Cheesecake Club
Somewhere on the banner: Moms, Step-Moms, Moms-to-be, and Moms who wish to be.

Whose Online:
Whose Browsing TCC?
Font (Provide Download Link): Segoe Script (Located Here)
Font Color:
#A35971 (Pastel Berry-Purple) with a Black outline
Link to My Forumotion Forum: The Cheesecake Club
Extra Comments:
Looking for something sleek, smooth, inviting, and somewhat obvious that we're a Family Forum.
My forum is a Women/Mother/Parenting forum, but we wanted to be creative and stand out from all the other family forums, so we decided on the name The Cheesecake Club (sort of a play off of the Breakfast Club... get it?) but I started to get concerned that new members seeing our current banner (located here) may not get who we are.

If you have any questions, please let me know. Smile

And thanks! Very Happy

1 Hillary.Reist, on 29/03/2011 at 03h50

Bump.

I look forward to see some creative minds at work!

2 Hyphen, on 29/03/2011 at 11h29

I see, ill be finishing this today or tomorrow give me time.

3 Hillary.Reist, on 29/03/2011 at 17h36

Thank you very much! Smile

This is greatly appreciated. Smile

4 Hyphen, on 30/03/2011 at 03h21

I have some question..can i replace the maid? to another maid?

5 Hillary.Reist, on 30/03/2011 at 19h41

Unfortunately, no. We have permission from the artist to use Muffin, who is our forum's mascot.

However, we do have a picture in the making of Muffin who is pregnant with children.

Edit: Located here It hasn't been inked or coloured, obviously, but the artist is planning on painting it sometime soon.

6 Hillary.Reist, on 02/04/2011 at 23h13

Bump.

Anyone want to try their hand at this?

7 RikaComet, on 03/04/2011 at 03h43

ah was just looking around.. been busy with my exams and all.. but kinda gave this a try still Smile

sorry only tried the banner Very Happy

8 Hillary.Reist, on 03/04/2011 at 04h11

I really like it, but the margins aren't correct, and there are white spots in where the flood colour didn't catch.

This is really amazing otherwise. Very Happy

Edit: I showed this to my fellow staff members, and they all really like it, aside from the aforementioned issues above. However, one member did mention the big empty space in the center of the banner. Perhaps put a pattern or an image of a cheesecake in the center?

9 RikaComet, on 06/04/2011 at 19h30

Hillary.Reist wrote:I really like it, but the margins aren't correct, and there are white spots in where the flood colour didn't catch.

This is really amazing otherwise.

Edit: I showed this to my fellow staff members, and they all really like it, aside from the aforementioned issues above. However, one member did mention the big empty space in the center of the banner. Perhaps put a pattern or an image of a cheesecake in the center?

ah the margins: i kept the width same, but reduced the height. i can make it same size as required but it wont look as nice.

the big space in the center: ah that can be fixed.. i added that patter on center-left for the very same reason that there was nothing much there.

will post a edited version soon

PS: sorry been busy with my exams Very Happy

10 Hillary.Reist, on 06/04/2011 at 22h31

Oh gotcha. Smile

You can leave the margins your way then if you like. Smile

I can't wait to see how this looks! Smile

11 RikaComet, on 08/04/2011 at 21h15

ok this is the current progress :

i went with your cheesecake idea, but in center it was looking odd, so i discarded the pattern ..

now i'm not sure to add something or what in the center.. or just leave it be

i'm worried adding something in the middle may become hosh posh.. clean is how i like banners

12 Hillary.Reist, on 08/04/2011 at 22h01

I do really like that, and I agree with you. It sucks that something can't go there, but you're right, it may look too cluttered if there's something there. Smile

Thanks so much! Smile

Would you also be able to do a "Whose Online?" image? Or are you too busy with your exams right now? Because if you are, you don't need to worry about it. Smile

Edit: One of my admins brought up the concern about, since that's a real image of a cheesecake, that there may be not only copyright issues (where did you get the image?) and since Muffin is a cartoon, and the cheesecake isn't, it doesn't exactly flow perfectly, ya know?

Just a suggestion. Smile

13 RikaComet, on 12/04/2011 at 00h27

these days pictures unless of people, or whole themese and buttons stuff are really hard to decide who owns it

http://www.paper-rain.org/2009/fancy-some-cheesecake/

this is the site i got it from.. its a recipe site, i kinda sure they dont own that pic

instead that pic is from some magazine.. given its quality.

and there are no watermarks or any copyright mark on it.. so its more or less doesn't matter.

14 Hillary.Reist, on 12/04/2011 at 01h36

Oh, lol, that's fair enough. Smile

Do you have a program, like photoshop, to cartoonize it?

15 RikaComet, on 16/04/2011 at 01h16

nah wouldn't have it Smile

16 Hillary.Reist, on 16/04/2011 at 01h48

LOL fair enough then. Smile

Thanks so much for your help! Are you able to take your hand at the Whose Online? Image? Or are you too busy?

17 Matei, on 19/04/2011 at 15h54

Considered Done