Mod. Notice Background image on Crows board, post your designs!

[Hank93]

Hi all

We thought we'd get around to organising a background image for the Adelaide board to provide a bit more colour and Crows flavour. The grey is very boring a bland.

Some examples from other boards can be seen below:





Here's your chance to provide some potential background images for our board. If you're a graphic designer we'd love to see your creative juices flowing!

Give a like to give your endorsement to a particular image, and we'll put the images with the most likes up for a poll later on.

Once we have our final preference we'll put it to Admin to implement it.

Here's some rules around dimensions and size limits for creating the background image.

Love it!

You are looking at the main content box of BF around 1320 px wide. The header is what... 120px high?

Under 200kb is a good rough guide for file size, but there is wiggle room.

Look at the Richmond board background as a guide.

Also: it is one page background image.

Note that the middle section should be 1322 characters wide - make it a solid colour in that section - ideally something neutral like #9b9b9b and the whole thing will come in well under the 200KB - it will get cached anyway so it wont get download that often

No limit, but the central body is a max-wdith of 1322 - if you make it too wide it will get obscured on smaller screens, but how wide that is is a bit subjective

If it gets too hard we might contact the club to see if they can help out with a potential image.

 

[WetCrow1991]

 

[JP Sauce]

The closest he's ever come to smiling.

 

[CrowinNT]

The We Fly As One banner. May have to get the club to help

 

[DD#23]

The We Fly As One banner. May have to get the club to help

it might be a good starting point, but having your eyes blasted by yellow would suck balls, I guarantee you. You have to treat a working environment (lol) differently to how you would a billboard or banner.

I'd quite like to have a crack at a couple of ideas though, do you want to set a deadline Hank93

 

[cm_perfect]

 

[Crowbots are dead]

So those background examples from other boards don't come up on my phone when I visit their boards. Is it on visible from a computer?

 

[1990crow]

Anything that doesnt include the raptor.
Simple hoops would be effective.

 

[Moonwatcher]

I think it should remain grey. Anything else would be a strain on the eyes or a distraction from reading comprehension which we already have difficulty with.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Otherwise hoops or something simple like Carlton's.

 

[Brentmeister]

Has to be quite plain I think - if there's too much going on it can be hard to focus on reading posts.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

Can we try and be progressive rather than following everyone else ......please can we recognize both male and female players from the Adelaide Crows ......think i posted a few weeks ago a website image with Male players on one side-bar and female on the other side-bar.....lets be the first in this regard on Big Footy, we have a lot of female big footy posters and should be attracting more

Can we also create a new chat room for the womens league/Crows team

 

[Rotayjay]

I say just keep it as simple and easy-on-the-eyes as humanly possible. Maybe navy with some gold and red elements. I'm with Moonwatcher - anything bright or complex and it would be annoying and make the text - which is the point of the board - hard to read.

 

[Chief]

So those background examples from other boards don't come up on my phone when I visit their boards. Is it on visible from a computer?

Yes.

 

[Cromulent]

 

[JP Sauce]

I like the Carlton example in the OP. Cool photos won't necessarily work because you're only seeing the ends of it, while the majority of the photo is blocked.

 

[Cromulent]

I like the Carlton example in the OP. Cool photos won't necessarily work because you're only seeing the ends of it, while the majority of the photo is blocked.

I disagree.. Here's a quick and dirty mockup of my suggestion:

 

[Scorpus]

I disagree.. Here's a quick and dirty mockup of my suggestion:

For licensing reasons you couldn't use that photo

 

[Cromulent]

For licensing reasons you couldn't use that photo

You could seek permission from Getty

 

[JP Sauce]

I disagree.. Here's a quick and dirty mockup of my suggestion:

I said won't necessarily.

Looks good.

 

[jim boy]

Also have a look at the Richmond and Essendon boards for inspiration

 

[Pdub]

 

[dude316]

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You son of bitch.

 

[fabs33]

It has to be a life sized picture of VB.

 

[Go the Guts]

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Yeah!