Need Graphic editor [free]

[taha116]

http://koc.x10hosting.com/

My current homepage looks simple at the moment and is plain html
I need someone to edit the play button on the top left of my homepage into something that invovles dragons and fits in with my background.
It should have the same dimenstion and should say something like:

Play Now!

Play

Click here to play!

Etc and i recommend you add a play sign in the mix as well

Thanks, your help will be much apreciated!

OHHH and also remember the design is almost entirley up to you, im just telling you the theme

 

[stef van de ven]

Hi,

I visited you website and it scared the hell out of me.
The style is very basic, and it wont get you players.

I see that you're currently looking for staff members,
I want to help you setting up the website and the game itself.

I am currently working on my own project, a browser game, but I have spare time to work on other projects.

Oh, I also made a play button for you.
It is transparent so it fits into every background.

I hope you like it!
It wasn't much effort to create...

I hope I hear from you soon!

 

[taha116]

Thank you very much, I like the button, Im gona try it out but do you by any chance have other colors? Maybe Red?

And yeah i know about the stylesheer, im actualy trying to re-do it at the moment.
And im looking at a new code for rendering browsers as you may have noticed if you click play it takes u to a bacnk page at the moment.

Heres the actual game link (Direct)

http://koc.x10hosting.com/index.php

 

[monpire]

If you want to edit your own graphic and have some time to spare to learn a new software, try Gimp

http://gimp.org/

Free and very powerful graphics editing tool.

 

[stef van de ven]

Making it red makes it look weird, anyway, here it is:

If you need any help, just ask!



EDIT:
Your game does not work, it says:
Warning: mail() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/excel123/public_html/lib.php(2) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code on line 192

So it is not online yet?

 

[taha116]

Wait, I belive thats due to server changes, it works fine ive had it tested from IE and firefox from 2 of my own computers in vista and XP and at my school and a friend.

Its just server changes at the moment

___

BTW can you help me out with making a nice homepage for my site

Oh, yeah the black does look better...

Ok, ive added a better logo (better then plain text anways)

And about making an index page i think id prefer it darker

 

[bonbon]

why, I can't browse the page? is it mentainance this current time?

 

[taha116]

I know, it seems like it, server changes probably will go on for a couple more days

 

[stef van de ven]

Lets see what I can do for the index page,
You want it to be dark, then that is how it is going to be

I will contact you soon

 

[taha116]

Alright thank for giving me your time

Cant wait to see what you come up with

 

[nywies]

Hey, I just went on your site, and it said to post something in the forums if I wanted an ad on your place. I have ta 175x500 banner ad that I'd like to put there. Is it okay if I advertise it for free?

Oh, and nice site. :biggrin:

 

[taha116]

at the moment i don't mind, but you wont benefit from it much until my team is assembled and we complete everything and officially launch

As soon as cpanel is fixed by x10hosting i will be able to continue with the site

 

[stef van de ven]

I started working on the index page, and I found it a hard job to create a page for someone else. It is hard, because you do not exactly know what you are expecting.

I finished the index today, it is still very basic, and because of the 'dark' colours, I could not use the play now image, so I tried something else out for you.

In your index page you use HTML to create tables and stuff, but that method has aged, no other 'professional' website uses only html any more... CSS is the standard styling language, and we all love it! =]

It is very easy to use, and your index.php or index.html will look more cleaner.

This is your index page: name it: index.php

<?php

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen">

<title>Dragon Scource</title>

<body>

    <div id="webpos">
    
    <div id="top">
        <div id="banner"></div>
    </div>
    
    <div id="makeup"></div>
    
    <div id="content">
    
        <div id="playnow">
            
            <ul>
                
                <li><a href="#">Play Now</a></li>
                
            </ul>
                
        </div>
    
        <div id="menu">
            
            <div id="menuname"><p>Menu</p></div>
            
            <ul>
            
                <li><a href="#">Play Now</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Chat</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Guide</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Forum</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">FAQs</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Devolopers</a></li>    
                <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>    
                    
            </ul>
            
        </div>
        
        <div id="main">
        
            <div id="mainname"><p>Welcome to Dragonscourge.co.cc</p></div>
            
            <div id="maintekst"><p>Dragonscourge.co.cc is a FREE MMORPG, no downloads requird,<br> 
            you just have to register for FREE an play the game.<BR><BR>
            We recommend you to use Firefox although we support IE as well.<BR>
            If you need any help registering, loggin in or with the gameplay, <br>go see the FAQs or ask us on the forum.<br><br>
            The Dragonscourge.co.cc team</p></div>
        
        </div>
    
    </div>
    
    <div id="footer"><p>This website is designed by Stef van de Ven, © copyright - All rights reserved ® 2009 - The Netherlands - <br> Designed for: 'http://koc.x10hosting.com/' and may NOT be used by third parties</p></div>
    
    </div>

</body>

</html>

Then you need the CSS file for you style:
Name it: style.css !make sure the extension is .css

@CHARSET "ISO-8859-1";

* {
        margin: 0px;
        padding: 0px;
}

body {
        background-color: #000000;
}

#webpos {
        width: 900px; 
        height: 700px;
        border: 0px solid #FFFFFF;
        position: relative;
        top: 0px;
        left: 260px;
}

#top {
        width: 900px; 
        height: 100px;
        background-color: #999999;
        border: 0px solid #FFFFFF;
        position: relative;
        top: 0px;
        left: 0px;
}

#banner {
        width: 471px; 
        height: 79px;
        background-image: url(http://koc.x10hosting.com/images/dslogo.png);
        border: 0px solid #FFFFFF;
        position: relative;
        top: 10px;
        left: 220px;
}

#makeup {
        width: 900px; 
        height: 20px;
        background-color: #333333;
        border: 0px solid #FFFFFF;
        position: relative;
        top: 0px;
        left: 0px;
}

#content {
        width: 900px; 
        height: 500px;
        background-color: #141414;
        border: 0px solid #FFFFFF;
        position: relative;
        top: 0px;
        left: 0px;
}

#footer {
        width: 900px; 
        height: 30px;
        background-color: #333333 ;
        border: 0px solid #FFFFFF;
        position: relative;
        top: 0px;
        left: 0px;
}

#footer p {
        font: normal 10px "Lucida Sans", Verdana, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
        color: #999999;
        font-weight: italic;
        position: relative;
        top: 0px;
        left: 10px; 
}

#menu {
        float: left;
        width: 200px; 
        height: 300px;
        background-color: #333333;
        border: 0px solid #FFFFFF;
        position: relative;
        top: 25px;
        left: 25px;
}

#menuname {
        width: 180px; 
        height: 20px;
        background-color: #1D1D1D;
        border: 0px solid #FFFFFF;
        position: relative;
        top: 10px;
        left: 10px;
}

#menuname p {
        font: normal 15px "Lucida Sans", Verdana, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
        color: #999999;
        font-weight: italic;
        position: relative;
        top: 0px;
        left: 5px; 
}

#menu ul {
        display: block;;
        list-style: none;
}

#menu li {
        width: 180px; 
        background-color: #2A2A2A;
        display: block;
        padding: 0px 0px 5px;;
        position: relative;
        top: 15px;
        left: 10px; 
}

#menu a {
        display: block;
        font: normal 13px "Lucida Sans", Verdana, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
        color: #999999;
        font-weight: italic; 
        position: relative;
        top: 0px;
        left: 10px; 
}

#menu li:hover {
        background-color: #161616;
        text-decoration: none;
}

#playnow {
        width: 125px; 
        height: 40px;
        background-color: #D70000;
        border: 2px solid #FFFFFF;
        position: relative;
        top: 15px;
        left: 60px;
}

#playnow li {
        width: 125px; 
        height: 40px;
        display: block;
}

#playnow a {
        font: normal 18px Verdana, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
        color: #FFFFFF;
        position: relative;
        top: 8px;
        left: 20px; 
}

#playnow li:hover {
        background-color: #800000;
        text-decoration: none;
}

#playnow:hover {
        border: 2px solid #C0C0C0;
}

#main {
        float: right;
        width: 625px; 
        height: 300px;
        background-color: #333333;
        border: 0px solid #FFFFFF;
        position: relative;
        top: 25px;
        left: -25px;    
}

#mainname {
        width: 605px; 
        height: 20px;
        background-color: #1D1D1D;
        border: 0px solid #FFFFFF;
        position: relative;
        top: 10px;
        left: 10px;
}

#mainname p {
        font: normal 15px "Lucida Sans", Verdana, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
        color: #999999;
        font-weight: italic;
        position: relative;
        top: 0px;
        left: 5px; 
}

#maintekst {
        width: 605px; 
        height: 130px;
        background-color: #2A2A2A;
        border: 0px solid #FFFFFF;
        position: relative;
        top: 15px;
        left: 10px;
}

#maintekst p {
        font: normal 12px "Lucida Sans", Verdana, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
        color: #999999;
        font-weight: italic;
        position: relative;
        top: 0px;
        left: 5px; 
}

If you need any help, just ask, I will check this thread regularly.

Oh and btw, if you are going to use this for your website, would you please not remove the credit in the footer area? Thanks!

I'll hear from you ^^

 

[taha116]

Sure Np, consider it free advertising.

Thanks for the help, im goan use index.html and remove the php line at the starting as i actually have a .php already there.

Will post back when im done
Edit:
Alright feedback time, The template is awesome! Nice colors and everything. could use some better table design though.

The main problem is that it dosent go so well with firefox and thats important it needs to be cross browser so can you fix that? That would be awesome
Edit:
Here now check out what ive found, no offence but its more of what i was looking for, But that dosent mean i dont want your help with graphics? I still want your help

BTW what editros do you use to make images and pages etc?

 

[stef van de ven]

Hi,

Well it is your choice, so you can decide what you want.
I can predict that you are not going to use the style you currently try to edit.

It is because this is not the style that belongs to the game 'in my opinion'.
This style is more for a blog, or a professional store that bought a cheap script.

You should really not use free templates, not for a game site.
So make one, let someone make one or edit this one in a very good style.

For the image I used a free editor called photofilte, it is basic but it does the job.
For the pages, well it is all in my mind, but I use eclipse to write the codes.

=]

 

[taha116]

thanks for the info, i want the person who edits the design to be you htoguh wat do u say?

 

[stef van de ven]

Humm oke, I can try... but I am a little busy with work so I can only work on it in the evenings, and I have my own website to build.

Give me a link where I can download this template, and maybe I can figure some things out for you...

Just tell me what I have to edit and where I have to edit it to.

=]

I'll hear from you!
(I am back maybe on saturday evening, but and sunday for sure)

pm me a mail adres, if you prefer to talk on the mail...

 

[taha116]

Shoot, Did i PM u the link or did i foget, i was wondering why i never recived a reply from u for so long, and now i just realised why, i dont think i PMed u the link did i?

 

[jensen]

GIMP is really a great software. I'd like to suggest Paint.net which is much simpler for basic work and more powerful than the regular "paint" that you get with Windows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint.NET

http://www.getpaint.net/

People sometimes use paint.net instead of Photoshop for simple graphic work

 

[taha116]

Thanks for the suggestion, lol but i was looking for a person who would do grpahic related work for me. I didnt mean i need a software