The Cover Project
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Snowcone on November 08, 2007, 01:27:14 AM
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This might sound silly, but are there any Graphic Designers in the house? My designer Dave is a busy man going through a possible career change and doing free work for me has taken a rightful back seat. This leaves me in the position of being stuck on the redesign of this site. I am an impatient person when it comes to projects like this. I want a better site and I want it now. This is where you come in. I need someone, or a few of you, to step up and help me make this site the best that it can be.
If you are interested in designing the new version of this site, drop me a PM and we'll talk.
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I got one email about this. No other takers?
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Would be glad to help but my graphical designing skills are never ever good enough to design a web page as complicated as ours.... I'm happy when I can control photoshop a bit.... :)
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You know I am willing to help on the DB and PHP but, well, graphically I can't even do a good job on covers. Luckily the half human half machine Lumberjack42 is here.
Antony30bc
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I haven't done much outside covers, (Why I didn't PM you) but I could be of some possible use.
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The site layout really needs to be pretty simple. Navigation and a super clean and straightforward way to display the covers. The focus will be on the covers and content and not cramming 36 ads in your face and hiding the download links.
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And ideally should list ALL games for a system even if we dont actually have a cover for it. This might just help getting those covers highlighted to the masses so we can encourage people to help fill in the blanks.
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I was working on that with Snowcone but lost track of which consoles I have sent the sql import statements to populate a games list for.
Antony30bc
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My bad antony. I'll try and pick that back up after lunch today. I have all your queries in my inbox still.
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Some of them might need to be modified to account for covers uploaded after you sent me the table dumps.
Antony30bc
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This might sound silly, but are there any Graphic Designers in the house? My designer Dave is a busy man going through a possible career change and doing free work for me has taken a rightful back seat. This leaves me in the position of being stuck on the redesign of this site. I am an impatient person when it comes to projects like this. I want a better site and I want it now. This is where you come in. I need someone, or a few of you, to step up and help me make this site the best that it can be.
If you are interested in designing the new version of this site, drop me a PM and we'll talk.
I have a few ideas. I'll pm you a divshare link when I have a more fleshed out picture.
Lumberjack42
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This might sound silly, but are there any Graphic Designers in the house? My designer Dave is a busy man going through a possible career change and doing free work for me has taken a rightful back seat. This leaves me in the position of being stuck on the redesign of this site. I am an impatient person when it comes to projects like this. I want a better site and I want it now. This is where you come in. I need someone, or a few of you, to step up and help me make this site the best that it can be.
If you are interested in designing the new version of this site, drop me a PM and we'll talk.
I have a few ideas. I'll pm you a divshare link when I have a more fleshed out picture.
Lumberjack42
Hey, Snowcone,
Did you get a chance to look at the the divshare like yet?
Lumberjack42
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i really only have one suggestion.
can there be a way for the artist of the cover to be able to revise their work after the cover is uploaded?
i've noticed with a few covers i messed up a tiny detail and wish that the version on the site could be fixed.
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i really only have one suggestion.
can there be a way for the artist of the cover to be able to revise their work after the cover is uploaded?
i've noticed with a few covers i messed up a tiny detail and wish that the version on the site could be fixed.
I think that's very very difficult to implement because even we Admins can't change covers which are allready posted.... Only the administrator(snowcone) can change uploaded covers and I think he wants to keep it that way(which I can perfectly understand). ;)
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Quite honestly I wouldn't want that weight on my shoulders anyway. I have a talent for screwing things up ;)
Shenske, you just have to be more careful what you upload, now that you're a star of the internets ;)
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Quite honestly I wouldn't want that weight on my shoulders anyway. I have a talent for screwing things up ;)
Shenske, you just have to be more careful what you upload, now that you're a star of the internets ;)
i always try to be as careful as possible, but on occasion a few things can slip
edit: for example i put a UPC on Link's Crossbow Training and it didn't have a UPC
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I know, I know. I was just joking.
Just PM Snowcone about it if it is a big deal for you.
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i really only have one suggestion.
can there be a way for the artist of the cover to be able to revise their work after the cover is uploaded?
i've noticed with a few covers i messed up a tiny detail and wish that the version on the site could be fixed.
I think that's very very difficult to implement because even we Admins can't change covers which are allready posted.... Only the administrator(snowcone) can change uploaded covers and I think he wants to keep it that way(which I can perfectly understand). ;)
I'd like to eventually change that and put more power in the hands of the other admins.
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i really only have one suggestion.
can there be a way for the artist of the cover to be able to revise their work after the cover is uploaded?
i've noticed with a few covers i messed up a tiny detail and wish that the version on the site could be fixed.
I think that's very very difficult to implement because even we Admins can't change covers which are allready posted.... Only the administrator(snowcone) can change uploaded covers and I think he wants to keep it that way(which I can perfectly understand). ;)
He meant for people to do their own changes.
All you need to do is upload the .psd and give that link also.
this way people can clean them up more or do some minor changes.
As for the designing of the site. I think I can help.
Do you do the coding? If so then I will be able to help alot, if not then it's gonna be a little harder.
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Hi everybody,
My name is BJ and I am a "professional" graphic designer. My education is in GD and I have worked at many GD places - newspapers, print & production houses, firms and currently work as a Graphic Design Specialist for a Minnesota college. I am also play/collect a lot of video games (new and retro). I have been coming to TCP for quite a while and making sweet DS cases for my GBA games and I finally realized that maybe I can contribute back. I don't have many covers that aren't already on here but I would be willing to spend my time (I have some spare moments here at work everyday) helping any way I can with scans (fixing errors, repairing damage, color correcting, resizing, giving advice, tips, creating uniform spine styles, etc.). Everyone usually does a great job with their scans but I tend to have to fix the ones I download (I just downloaded the "The World Ends With You" un-subbed scan and had to fix the crookedness). I don't know any of the moderators or top scan posters here (all that comes to mind is Snocone) but please contact me and I will be glad to help with whatever I can. Also, if you wish, please forward this message to the other pages (I had no idea where to start this).
Thanks...
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what exactly are you looking for? PHP? CSS? Photoshop? How many hours? Some idea of scope would be great.
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Omg...
Snowcone asked this in 2007... and sticked this post..
I realy think that this shouldnt be sticked anymore... The website is cool!
Unstick this post plz? :)
Ket