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15 Apr 2007, 09:40
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The PropaGhandi
Join Date: May 2001
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Why ****up banners?
Who's bright idea was it to setup fixed size for galaxybanners?
Personally this is my first round back where i cba to play, and now you cant use any decent old school banners cause some idle cnut means people cant figure out what size banners to have for themselves?
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15 Apr 2007, 10:21
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Commodore
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Re: Why ****up banners?
Why not just zoom/resize them to fit, with black sides?
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15 Apr 2007, 10:35
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The PropaGhandi
Join Date: May 2001
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Re: Why ****up banners?
Cause it shouldn't be needed?
And why when they first did this, didn't they follow the "size" banners from legion,virus,fury etc used to be?
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15 Apr 2007, 10:56
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Up The Hatters!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Kenilworth Road
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Re: Why ****up banners?
Because the PA team is historyless and short minded.
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15 Apr 2007, 10:57
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Re: Why ****up banners?
Lets face it - PA is looking alot more slick these days, and letting people stick massive banners all over the place used to ruin a page. Majorly.
For anyone who uses facebook and myspace - why do you think myspace looks like ****?
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15 Apr 2007, 10:58
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Inactive peon
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Re: Why ****up banners?
From memory, this is something Spinner introduced in round 10.
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15 Apr 2007, 11:00
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The PropaGhandi
Join Date: May 2001
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Re: Why ****up banners?
So Arfy, your saying that the new standard in banners is much better then that of legion,virus,xanadu, fury etc?
They all had 99% same default size on banners, and it looked good.
Now the default banner setting is almost a square, it looks HORRIBLE.
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15 Apr 2007, 11:07
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The Original Carebear
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Trondheim, Norway
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Re: Why ****up banners?
This is actually something that has boggled my mind when I've been making galaxy banners the last 2-3 rounds I've played. I mean, not the fixed size itself, I like that. But 500*375 is a bit too small to actually fit in everything you want in a banner without using a miniscule font, and it limits what you can do. 640*400 or 640*480 alone would be a huge improvement.
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15 Apr 2007, 11:09
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The Original Carebear
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Re: Why ****up banners?
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Originally Posted by Allfather
Now the default banner setting is almost a square, it looks HORRIBLE.
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The aspect ratio is 4/3, which is the same as most older TVs. And the same as 640*480. It's no more square than either.
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Originally Posted by Ultimate Newbie
Why not just zoom/resize them to fit, with black sides?
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Because that's a great way to ruin an otherwise great picture (more so increasing the size than decreasing it, but still...).
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15 Apr 2007, 11:35
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2005
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Re: Why ****up banners?
It's easily possible to scale images down to a certain max heigth and width, while keeping the aspect ratio, if they're too big. No need to stretch images, it's ugly.
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15 Apr 2007, 11:42
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The PropaGhandi
Join Date: May 2001
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Re: Why ****up banners?
500x375 is the size right?
Doesn't really matter it seems, cause no matter what I do it gets horrible pixelated.
It looks fking awful.
And flash?, who the fk was the idiot with that idea :<
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15 Apr 2007, 12:02
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Re: Why ****up banners?
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Originally Posted by Allfather
So Arfy, your saying that the new standard in banners is much better then that of legion,virus,xanadu, fury etc?
They all had 99% same default size on banners, and it looked good.
Now the default banner setting is almost a square, it looks HORRIBLE.
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Not at all. I'm just all for having a max height and width. I agree its too small but personally I'd rather it be too small than all up in my grill.
As long as it doesn't extend the page width-wise I am happy.
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15 Apr 2007, 12:11
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The PropaGhandi
Join Date: May 2001
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Re: Why ****up banners?
Well, no matter what banner i make it looks like its stretched from 40x40 px.
So, how come they look so fkedup?
|edit| When i went imageshack it looks ok (making banners for some people), but the host bildr.no ****s the images up, dont use it
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23 Apr 2007, 13:37
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The Original Carebear
Join Date: Nov 2004
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Re: Why ****up banners?
Did anything ever come out of this except for 12 meaningless and lost posts in the great sea of shit that is the internet?
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