What needs to be improved? Do you have any suggestions?

Anything at all helps.

I WILL GO TO TOWN ON THIS

For the umpteenth time-- I gotta say.

You guys? Are fucking amazing mods.

The dedication and time you put into stuff is astounding. 8||| /ollies out

if i could be picky, i'd want to change the font on the profile banner. arial font is so 1998

i liked the ad design stuff tho

but i'm a fan of courier, but i can see where people might dislike it

but imo, it's legible, it's less used than arial/times new roman/etc, and it fits the theme of the game so fuck it courier works

this is a cap from the ad. I'd suggest moving the "COMPASS code" text behind the white text

oh yeah

agreed, all compass code should be behind the text and potentially opacity at 50

the "taken" and "OOC" links in particular are covered a bit too much, in my opinion

because yeah there's the trickery of being a code, but then it's just making third word on the right straight up illegible

Oh everyone is giving feedback here

Also like yeah, also I would highly suggest turning the text of the ad to actual text?

nah I just haven't got anything noteworthy enough to put in a comment to the post

I've viewed it on... a netbook, a laptop, two desktops, and an iPod and it was only legible on one desktop

culling: Oh wow x_x; Thanks for letting me know

Whereas if it were actually text, it would be resized

That's my biggest thing! And yeah I mean I appreciate the work that was put in it, but I guess... the graphics aren't in with the current

also as a note to whoever does the images, (i haven't noticed this in particular) never save anything as a jpg. i mean as said

trends?

i haven't noticed it done, but as a future note

I made the text an image because again I break code like it's nothing and I have a lot of trouble with tables.

Not that I particularly care, myself.

NEVER A JPG

IF YOU NEED HELP WITH CODE YOU ONLY NEED ASK?

yeah i agree the graphics aren't really in with current trends, but as said i like'd the style of the ad so w/e

I like the idea of the ad, just the execution could use some polishing, yeah

if you ever need help with making banners or something i kind of like doing that too

^^^

We could use it. I have made this ad so many times and it's never quite right.

And it's such an important component of the game /flops

fyi any suggestions i have are really nitpicky because i think the game looks great as a whole

and i love all the customized graphics c: but yeah there's a few fonts I would change, at worst

well i think the reason it doesn't follow current "trends" is because it's a drawn pic?

as opposed to

like

googling a castle and then upping the contrast and then

idk making it 200x300

i mean 200x700&

***

fuck

i cant type

Ahahah

i mean a long ass banner horizontal instead of square

horizontal formats are the new thing, as per the way of plasma screens

I don't even think it's the being drawn, so much as it is that-- the horizontalness

As it is it's kind of blocky

well see the thing with using a "web safe" font is if the font is going on a picture

it doesnt matter

it's on the pic

Yeah

it'll render regardless

have yous een any jpeg artifacts

seen*

But yeah Jao if you ever want me to do some coding for you, I've learned well to make CSS on DW my bitch

because i haven't but im also looking without glasses but i was looking to see if i saw any

I've always jpg'd <~ Granny stage I guess. What are all the kids using these days? Them newfangled pngs?

also sorry i make no sense

NEVER JPG

NEVER

EVER

EVER EVER FUCK JPG

png is the only format that's acceptable

png is lossless and gif works for straightforward images

yeah i mean unless it's animated which the banner is so it has to be a gif

but every still image needs to be png

jao, would you mind sharing the ad code somewhere?

or bmp i guess but that's so outdated

Yep, lemme add it to the entry in the ooc com

bmp is overly huge though

yeah it is

bmp is butts

I MEAN IF PNG IS FOR SOME REASON NOT AN OPTION!!

many thanks c:

it's better than jpg ok

anything is. everything is.

PNG IS NEVER NOT AN OPTION

SHHHHH

EVEN PAINT SAVES AS PNG

i'm tired it's 2 am

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I have learned so much today =D

speaking of gifs

I'm OK with the use of gifs in the location post/profiles/is there anywhere else I can't remember, but

septim: It's a pretty simple PHP script.

Or that's one way anyway

would it be more practical to have the images in a lightbox or something

Ok the ad is added

saves the time spent staring at an animated graphic waiting for the part you're watching out for

I am trying to keep up, if I miss something or don't reply to it right away I am so sorry.

Let's change all the graphics to flame gifs and pikachu on a pokeball and papyrus

Comic sans in the ad is the only way.

Good, you smell bad anyway

Nothing is scarier than playing in a game where everything is default comic sans

For those who wanted to work with me on code, please private plurk me or im me on aim at zigziggon

Having different ads to switch to every now and then is something we want, so having as many as we can is great!

Re: making things change on refresh, I don't know if you can do that with DW's coding limits.

If it's PHP.

Well

It's a PHP script that you link to like you would an image

You have to host it externally

ah okay

What would be the benefits of that over the gif though?

Oh I dunno someone else suggested it

Well I'm asking the plurk at large.

NO

You're going to have to define what "heavy" means to me

I am Doc and you are Marty

And I tested it, the script does load on profiles and in comments

My only problem is, then our ghost wouldn't flash anymore. >.>

Check it!

I like our ghost.

What ghost?

The gif lags really bad, so idk, but I've never seen a ghost

Oh it doesn't lag at all for me even on my home dsl lol >.>

But yeah there's a ghost.

When it goes to the corridor and the lights flicker, there's a ghost there.

I just always have a bazillion and ten things open heheh

Ah

I mean we can give it up it just makes me sad.

/resists change

anyway I should have been in bed two hours ago so I'll just leave you guys to it

I know nothing about this kind of stuff anyway

I actually really like the gif on the profiles. It's cool, it's different, yadda yadda yadda.

However, the add could use a bit of help graphically. Like what everyone else said, making the text in front of the blood would be a good

start, and while I really like the title with the COMPASS logo for the O, I think the image behind that header would work better as the same

boat you guys used for the gif in the profile header.

Uniformity is a good thing, imo.

I agree. I'll tinker with making a boat banner =D

The Entry's been updated with information on making ads, as well as a link to the new beautiful ad by Nu.