HammerHead Logo
I have some ideas for HammerHead logo/banner thingys [yes, thingys is indeed a certified technical term in the blogosphere] and such.
First, I would like to do a rotating banner like we did at Madfish Willie's Cyber Saloon. I have the script installed to run it as soon as we can come up with something.
My ideas naturally include that cool hammerhead shark in the posts. How about an image like the transparent gif at the top of the graphics column. Have that stretch across the body post and above the other two columns put in a scripty type font "blog designs for [top line] hammerheads [bottom line]. I like the color scheme and outline of the type in the current image. Could you add "Designs" under the HammerHead on the banner shark?
Another idea would be to have just the shark on one side and on the other HammerHead Designs [top line] blog designs for hammerheads [bottom line]
Maybe switch sides for another banner. If we do one with a colored background, it should stretch across the entire width of the columns?... and have a maroon or teal border?... maybe a whole school of sharks in different sizes and make it look like the smaller they are, the further away they are by making them lighter... [grabbing another bottle of champagne] Happy New Year!... wow, can you make them move around? That would be really neat - as long is it doesn't slow the page load too much.
I guess that we just need one up pretty soon just so we have something other than that ugly standard poop from MT.
Anyway... those were just some thoughts and ideas... that part of it is your gig and I'm sure that you'll come up with something really cool for us.
Thanks!
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I'm going to grab a couple of the Straight White Guy images and post them in the Graphics sidebar. And maybe do a separate HTML page for banners and link over to it from here. Use the same background as this page or the page they are on? Maybe do a page of grahics from each site? What do you think would be the best way to go about that? Are there any other images you want and can display?
I'm off to other things right now, so I'll check back over tomorrow!
Merry New Year!!!!
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I'll work on those either later today or tomorrow. My head kinda hurts. Probably from all that smoke outside last night...
I did download MS messenger yesterday, and have it open now most of the time. It's my email addy... pamibe@ well, you know the rest. :)
Happy 2004!
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pam at January 1, 2004 08:16 AM
No problem... take your time, I'm not in a big hurry or anything...
Happy 2004 to you and your family!!
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The Bartender at January 1, 2004 01:14 PM
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Prelim logo design for SWG
These are the bottles Eric was referring to in the email I forwarded.
Haven't worked in the jam session, mountains or usmc yet... Eric will be peeking out from the rim... ;)
I was thinking... If this -or the finished version - were set in the style sheet as the background image, then it wouldn't be the header... Maybe it could be static... Just thinking...
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Yeah. We could make that a static image that doesn't scroll. Maybe set the background on the body to transparent and you can see the logo all the time. Would have to use a font color that shows good on both light and dark! Nice work!
posted by
The Bartender at December 29, 2003 05:08 PM
Let's put all those other pics in one of the sidebars. I'll be putting all the miscellaneous stuff like archives and calendars and logos [oh, my!] on the left side and all the links on the right side - like Civilization Calls. I think with this nice graphic we shouldn't clutter it up.
posted by
The Bartender at December 29, 2003 05:21 PM
Hey guys, I love the graphic...you guys are great! Is that going to be the actual size of the graphic when it is placed on the site, or is it going to be smaller?
posted by
eric at December 30, 2003 08:54 AM
Actually, I just showed this to a friend, and they like the fact that the shark is circling the bowl of the martini glass...any chance of keeping that in there?
posted by
Eric at December 30, 2003 04:00 PM
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I've been corresponding with Eric about his graphics, so we've got that moving forward. :)
What about a banner for HammerHead? Or do you want to stay with text?
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That's the Ticket! HammerHead Shark in the post eating everything up!
We need a banner, but I want to get the columns lined up first so we can tell what size and where to place it. I'll go work on that right now and impletment some of the column changes I talked about earlier.
I'm thinking about Eric's design myself and what colors to use. I'm going to grab a USMC logo off the Marine site and maybe use it somewhere in the design... shrink it and put it beside each post title or something like that... maybe place it on the posted by line...
I'll start on that later today.
posted by
The Bartender at December 29, 2003 01:55 PM
That's funny; I was just going to ask what colors you wanted - or he wanted - to use for his design...
I snagged a great high res anchor globe & eagle if you'd like it.... :)
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pam at December 29, 2003 03:39 PM
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I tried many, many things with that one champagne glass background, and just couldn't make it work. So, I made both cotbb & cotbg logos similar .... Both are 128px wide and 105px high. If they aren't okay, let me know...
I like the water background. :)
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You are the best! I like the Corner logos much better than the ones I did... mine look like poop... but I have to say it was my very first attempt at doing any image work.
The HammerHead will look great on sites with really dark backgrounds. I put the transparent one on over at SAPSA and the edges look a little rough. This one will look much better, especially with the maroon border.
Is the water background going to work with a banner style logo? I bet it will look great as a page background!! I can't wait to get started on this site's design... I have lots o' cool ideas!!!
posted by
The Bartender at December 28, 2003 08:51 PM
Ms Pam: Is there any way to put the transparent logo on the water? I guess what I'm trying to say is the smaller lettering on the transparent logo on the water background logo. Do you like the water background here? I'm a little iffy on it myself.
posted by
The Bartender at December 29, 2003 12:40 AM
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This is strange...
It's so familiar, but not the same... ;)
Anyway, I didn't know if it was okay to put these here, or what... Just some logos for you to think about... the shark on the banner would be larger, probably in the background...
The first is what you asked for... but I couldn't get it to look right because everything is dark(ish).
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...just send the bar babes & dudes logo pics and tell me what you want...
Will start on SWG tonight; must go now to take a reciprocating (sp?) to the palmettos in the back. Damn palm trees!!!
Oh, as for MY banner... Why eat up bandwidth? A simple text tag line is fine with me; 'Graphics by pamibe' with a link is cool. :)
posted by
pam at December 28, 2003 11:51 AM
Cool logos! I like all of them, but I think that I like the middle two best... the whole hammerhead shark thingy you know... I really like the transparent gif. Hey I have a water background... let me send that to you. I'll put it in this post under an extended entry. Any updates go ahead and post to this post again.
When I do the banner thingys, I upload the pic to their site so the bandwidth comes off their end. But they have to keep them up on the site to track people back to us.
I'll put the COGG and COBG logos up here like you did.
posted by
The Bartender at December 28, 2003 02:32 PM
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