My new footer

[CreationsCentre]

So I decided to finally make a new footer. But looking at it now - I think the eyes look a bit similar to those in Apix's footer :( Hmm... maybe I should change that? Oh and the next step is to make the footer dynamic using Nokrev's script - but for the life of me I can't get it to work: help me out Nokrev! lol

Anyway let me know what you think.

[Jeff Wheeler]

Which script are you trying to use, and in what way does it not work?

[CreationsCentre]

This one: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=185502&highlight=nokrev+footer

The dynamic text doesn't load. It only displays the pic and no text.

Here's mine: http://www.creationscentre.co.uk/footer/footer.php

[Jeff Wheeler]

Does the script have read permissions on the text file, and have you directed it to the correct spot?

[CreationsCentre]

Yes read permissions are set, and I'm pretty sure it's directed to the right place. Phrases are located in: http://www.creationscentre.co.uk/footer/pic/ and my footer.php $dir points to:



$dir = "/home/creation/public_html/footer/pic/";
...
include("/home/creation/public_html/footer/pic/".$files[$rand]);

[ApixDesigns]

cool footer dude! dont worry about it looking like mine. i wasnt the first guy to come up with those types of eyes. the only flaw i see is that it might be lower quality because the speech bubble looks abit grainy, and also the bg color of your footer is not the same as the bg of the post window.

[CreationsCentre]

Hey thanks Apix. Yeah I'll change the bg colour - but the quality I had to reduce because it would have gone over the file size limit for footers. But I'll see if I can do something about that too.

[Phenex]

but the quality I had to reduce because it would have gone over the file size limit for footers

What is in there that accounts for a big filesize anyway? :P

[ApixDesigns]

save it as a png or a gif. usually smaller filesizes

[CreationsCentre]

The .png was around 56kb - and I'm pretty sure the max file size allowed is 15kb.

[nobody]

You're doing something seriously wrong if a 300 x 60 png is ending up 56kb.

[BS]

the font looks like the skype stuff

[danulf]

looks like pure coolness to me! And I know cool :player:

[CreationsCentre]

@cybercode - looking at it again, you're kinda right lol. I just thought the font worked with this so used it.

@ xxviii - yeah, but I don't know what

@ danulf - thanks man!

[Pasquale]

Yah just make it a gif. Or a png - make sure you compress the thing :)

[REEF·]

the reason the file size is so high is because it was a png. dont you guys know png's host lossless image data? it ups the file size like hell.

go with gif, it'll make the file size hella low if you control colors (but it's unnoticable to the eyes)

[Pasquale]

Yeah but pngs support alpha channels.

[nobody]

the reason the file size is so high is because it was a png. dont you guys know png's host lossless image data? it ups the file size like hell.

go with gif, it'll make the file size hella low if you control colors (but it's unnoticable to the eyes)

Yeah but there's not enough there for it to matter, if had a ton of colors and was all over the place, sure. But PNG shoulda been able to knock that out around 10k.

[danulf]

speaking of image sizes, 28's footer is too large :|

please don't ban me :worried:

[Fl4SH'ER]

danulf has a point there... :azn:

[CreationsCentre]

OK, I've made the background colour the same as that of the forum (I'm pretty sure it is) and it's now a gif at around 3kb. Thanks for crit and advice guys! But let me know if you think it looked better with a white bg or this one.

[Jeff Wheeler]

It depends on the theme... make it transparent. :thumb:

[CreationsCentre]

Ah good point Nokrev! lol - oh and do you have any idea why your random footer script ain't working for me? :ponder:

[nobody]

speaking of image sizes, 28's footer is too large :|

please don't ban me :worried:

Weird, I never noticed :P

[Jeff Wheeler]

Not exactly sure why it doesn't work... just keep playing with it. :-/

[Pasquale]

Weird, I never noticed :P
OOo Im going to SUE you now!

[CreationsCentre]

:lol: @ darkmotion

OK thanks Nokrev!