Auto Updated Guild Sigantures

[Ryuno]

Please give your comments :) I'd still like to improve it some more over the next few weeks, but wanted to get something use-able working for everyone :)

http://www.therigante.com/sig/Valah.jpg (http://www.therigante.com)

If you would like to use it, copy the code below into your signature, replacing Valah.jpg with the name of your character in the guild. You can find a list of all character signatures here (http://www.therigante.com/sig/):

http://www.therigante.com/sig/Valah.jpg (http://www.therigante.com)

[Kingsandy]

Really very nice :)

There are a few tinny tiny typographical errors which may help tighten it up together (letter spacing/leading, pt size, minuscule alignment issues, things like that)
Sorry Graphic Designer = Insane about Typography

All together really really good, its come on leaps and bounds

[Caledan]

test...

edit: huzzah :)

looks good - have reppage

[Ryuno]

Really very nice :)

There are a few tinny tiny typographical errors which may help tighten it up together (letter spacing/leading, pt size, minuscule alignment issues, things like that)
Sorry Graphic Designer = Insane about Typography

All together really really good, its come on leaps and bounds


Thats cool, I know a few people like that ;)

If you want to give me a hand with it, feel free :)

[Rawly]

Think it looks great well done

[Ryuno]

Just modified the banner a bit this morning, and put a border on the bottom so it looks a lot better when more than 1 is stacked together :)

[Caledan]

question for you... is the signature image visible to anyone? i.e. could i use the same image link in a signature on another forum and the people there would be able to see it?

[Ryuno]

question for you... is the signature image visible to anyone? i.e. could i use the same image link in a signature on another forum and the people there would be able to see it?

Yep

[Kingsandy]

Thats cool, I know a few people like that ;)

If you want to give me a hand with it, feel free :)

Yeah sure anytime, what are you using to create the images, i'm assuming your using hyper-linked file data from the curse client and imputting it into some other editor?

[Ryuno]

Yeah sure anytime, what are you using to create the images, i'm assuming your using hyper-linked file data from the curse client and imputting it into some other editor?

The data is pulled from a JS feed from curse (http://www.wardb.com/ExGuild.aspx?id=1630). I pull out the roster array using a regex, and then put it through a JSON lib to get a php array. The data is put into a database (to display the roster), but then also used to generate the images.

Currently the sig is generated using a background image loaded into php using the GD lib, and then I draw the text on top of it using true type fonts (using Myriad Pro atm).

I'm using Photoshop to design the images, and then just saving out the image for the background onto my server, and mirroing the text layout/positions etc in PHP. :)

[Ghaz]

The data is pulled from a JS feed from curse (http://www.wardb.com/ExGuild.aspx?id=1630). I pull out the roster array using a regex, and then put it through a JSON lib to get a php array. The data is put into a database (to display the roster), but then also used to generate the images.

Currently the sig is generated using a background image loaded into php using the GD lib, and then I draw the text on top of it using true type fonts (using Myriad Pro atm).

I'm using Photoshop to design the images, and then just saving out the image for the background onto my server, and mirroing the text layout/positions etc in PHP. :)

:confused:

[Kingsandy]

Sounds Hardcore! Whilst Photoshop is not the greatest typographical tool it is still perfectly powerful enough to nudge to text into "correct" position. The best advice I can give you is that if you are happy with how the text looks then it is probably fine! However there are certain conventions designers follow, whilst not rules - they are fairly strict guidelines which when applied just help the whole piece come together.

Whilst both Tracking and Kerning adjust the spaces between letters, with Myriad Pro it adjust the Tracking as it is a very straight backed font just see how it looks really.

http://www.nudge.it/articles/112/1/How-to-change-text-spacing-in-Photoshop/Page1.html

I shall put an example up in a sec

[Kingsandy]

http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/4310/therigantejm6.th.jpg (http://img391.imageshack.us/my.php?image=therigantejm6.jpg)http://img391.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif (http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php)

The top is approx what it currently looks like, (slightly exaggerated for example making purposes) underneath is a quick re-styling the word spacing of Orrud could stand to come back a bit which would make it better…

In fact looking at it again the letter spacing of the second line is a touch too much, generally the smaller type gets the more you notice the little mistakes.

[Ryuno]

The code is really simple to be honest :)


Thanks for the advice, I'll have a good read of that :) I see what your saying.


Only problem I have is as the text is generated in PHP, I have little control over letter spacing etc. I might look to rewrite it though so I've got more control.

[Kingsandy]

The code is really simple to be honest :)


Thanks for the advice, I'll have a good read of that :) I see what your saying.


Only problem I have is as the text is generated in PHP, I have little control over letter spacing etc. I might look to rewrite it though so I've got more control.

Its not a big thing really, just me being anal about it, I can't really help but look at any text and analyze what I would do differently about it, 3 years of Central St Martins will do that to a person!