Dressing up 4 Christmas ?

[12noon]

It's just a bit of fun is this, but anyway

Who is going to dress-up their website for christmas ?
You know, adding snow and christmas type stuff.

Also are you going to make a christmas avatar for this forum or even just add a santa hat to the avatar you already use ?
 

[SensoVision]

ahh that's really pain for me, I've idea on making Christmas design for site each year but never really did it, once on my first site I've just put snow javascript which was stupid step actually
I always start to think about this too late... I remeber that last year I've try to make some X-Mas design but from what I remeber logo look too ugly and I'm not sure if I put it on the site or not, maybe someone of members remeber this and could tell us did we have X-Mas skin or not?
As for this year let's see if people would like to see X-Mas avatars(this shouldn't be hard to accomplish) and skin(this is kind of hard... also this skin is produced by Rachel not me so maybe we can beg her for help in putting Santa's hat over logo?   )so let us know about this.
BTW 12noon do you plan to customize your site for this occasion?

[Queen Bee]

Hmm... I would consider something for Thanksgiving (If I had the time), but I do not celebrate Christmas.

[12noon]

I'll be adding a bit of snow to my sites logo and might even add a few other things.
 
As for my avatar on this forum. I've almost made one that i'll put on here when we get into December.

[susieq]

Hello Denis,

I remeber that last year I've try to make some X-Mas design but from what I remeber logo look too ugly and I'm not sure if I put it on the site or not, maybe someone of members remeber this and could tell us did we have X-Mas skin or not?

 
no, I distinctly remember last year , that nothing decorative appeared on site/skins. You wrote a nice seasonal message, and none of the members (from what I can remember) did very much (if anything) to their logos.

Thursday 25th December is going to turn up, celebrate or otherwise.....................

[SensoVision]

thanks for reminding Sue, as I almost was sure that put that evergreen tree which I've draw, but probably my mind play a trick with me. As for avatars I really meant smiles not avatars, as for new year celebraiton I'll see if I have time and maybe draw something till that time.

[susieq]

That sounds good Denis....
I'm going to try and do something "Chrismassy" somewhere along the line

[justjeni]

I always mean to, but time gets away from me and then the holiday is over - hate when that happens!  This year has been particularily bad and I spend months thinking of what I'll do.

I'd like to - if I could just squeeze it in...

[12noon]

Well, hope you don't mind the extra line in my sig.
It's only for a few weeks anyway and doesn't take much loading.
 

[SensoVision]

nope it's ok, I like feeling of New Year's Holiday even if few last years they wasn't so happy I still got some sentiment for them which probably come from the childhood. Who know maybe your avatar will make me one day sit and make some dressing for site(I already noted this in tasks I need to perform)

[spherica]

Wyhen I saw the title of this topic, I thought it was asking if I/we were going to be dressing up for Christmas....so I will answer that with I'm am dressed up...I'm wearing my Tommy Hilfigure underwear....

As for the avatar, I'm actually just starting my design for one, bugger cause I'm not very good in the creativity section.

[CoastPC]

I will probably just put a small Christmas message on the site. The real message of Christmas is sometimes lost in all the rush and hype.
 
Chris
 

[Andy]

I think this is a great idea because it reminds the terrorist and religious fananatics that there is a joyous world beyond their blinkered extremist view of the world.

[SensoVision]

it's finally done I forgot to tell about it I mean Holiday Dressing, just hit refresh and you should see it, didn't have a chance to do it with all buttons and such but logo is better than nothing, am I right?

[susieq]

Yes, Denis,
you are right
They look very nice on opening of site pages.....
Nice one......

[susieq]

I know it is early days yet.......but we all know what happens...when "suddenly" Christmas is here....or very close.....anybody any "dressing up" ideas?

[SensoVision]

glad you've remind about this in advance right Sveta trying to do some winter modifications, maybe they would show up shortly.

[susieq]

WE ARE DRESSED UP AND READY TO GO........

The decorations are very very pretty.....

[SensoVision]

glad you like it Sveta ask me to tell her about any good or bad feedback so she can learn how she can improve her skills in Flash. BTW she also made static picture which actually I like more than flash and even thing of replacing flash with it, here it's:


currently it should appear if your browser doesn't have flash player installed.

[donecweb]

I like them both. Tell Sveta your forum members thank her for her contribution and consider her talented. I don't know much about flash but I am interested in file sizes and wonder how an animated GIF of the same image would compare in file size with her flash?

[Andy]

I like the flash animation, especially since in the politically-correct climate of the UK the social engineers seem to want to replace Christmas with "WinterTime". I don't know about you people, but in the UK Winter can be a pretty miserable time with cold and wet weather so Christmas serves to cheer 99% of us up and give us a good reason to party and feel happy.

[SensoVision]

thanks for compliments! I'll shared them with Sveta and she was glad to know that her work was appricated, although she asked to tell that she's just learning Flash and don't have great experience that's why banner may look not as good as it could.

Don, I'm not sure if flash could be converted into GIF(I'll try to check this out) but as for .swf it's 16.8kb and I believe that gif would take more space than vector graphics.

Andy, what about Christmas Time and Winter time, is it big problem and did it arise becuase of difference in religions?

[SensoVision]

we've just tried to export it into GIF and got file around 84.8kB

[Queen Bee]

Hey Denis, just wanted to say Sveta did a great job on the snowflake banner. I enjoy looking at it when I visit the forum.

I was considering learning Flash myself, but I think those days are in the past... Though I'll always be able to admire other people's work when I can.

[SensoVision]

thanks Rachel, I'll retell her!

I was considering learning Flash myself, but I think those days are in the past... Though I'll always be able to admire other people's work when I can.

what do you mean by this, have you decide not to learn it for some reason?

[Queen Bee]

what do you mean by this, have you decide not to learn it for some reason?

Well, I decided to take my work in a different direction... Instead of working on web projects, I think I'd rather work on film. I always loved film, I was just not sure how where to go with it... I finally found a school that would educate me in this field, but it doesn't include any Flash... So I don't think I will have time to learn that any time soon.

[SensoVision]

I see, and what kind of film you'd like to work, would it be cartoons or special FX for movies?

[Queen Bee]

I see, and what kind of film you'd like to work, would it be cartoons or special FX for movies?

I was hoping to do both, once I got the chance. As well as my own stuff, small group/independent type film... I think that would be a real experience.

[SensoVision]

that could be fun, but would it bring enough money for living?

[Queen Bee]

that could be fun, but would it bring enough money for living?

Entertainment media is a hard field when it comes to stable income, but I'm open to working for whatever firm would be willing to hire me (Being flexible and accepting whatever work someone throws your way helps)... And doing my own stuff on the side should be sufficient. That's how I've supplied for myself in the past, any way.

A lot of people in independent film have a hard time making money, though... I think that I would have to start out with something a little more practical before I worked my way into that area. Networking is always a plus, too.

[SensoVision]

this year I was busy with programming project and Svetlana got part time job, so the only modification to old Xmas is a red hat on a logo
Guess we need to get ready for winter holidays in summer when time permits...