[marxo]

Why is it bad to make eye-candy userbars? Even for 9x campaign...

[celtish]

How about The Win98 Club - Accept No Substitutes with an ALT of "The last of a breed" ?

[BenoitRen]

TM0d, on May 27 2007, 09:12 PM, said:

Why is it bad to make eye-candy userbars? Even for 9x campaign...

To who, and what, exactly, are you responding to?

[marxo]

To you... post number #96

[BenoitRen]

There's nothing wrong with eye-candy. But the eye-candy I was talking about comes from Windows Vista. For a user bar promoting Windows 98, this is unacceptable.

[herbalist]

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How about The Win98 Club - Accept No Substitutes with an ALT of "The last of a breed" ?

Gimme Windows 9X or no Windows at all!

[glocK_94]

What do you think about that?
That's the kind of avatar you'd use?

It's a beta and still needs a few improvements but still.

Edit: Wow, it took me time! it's 01h55 here! *going to bed...*

This post has been edited by glocK_94: 30 May 2007 - 05:54 PM

[glocK_94]

Here's an improved version.

Don't hesitate to give me your opinion!

[glocK_94]

And just for the fun, here's the "supercharged windows 9x" you were talking about herbalist.

[Max_04]

glocK_94, on May 31 2007, 09:04 PM, said:

And just for the fun, here's the "supercharged windows 9x" you were talking about herbalist.

What's font name please?

[herbalist]

I like it! That's much better than any I'd make. I very much appreciate your efforts and will gladly use it. That supercharged logo also looks much better than the one I was visualizing.
Rick

[herbalist]

glock_94,
One of the forums I frequent limits their size to 60x60, and the print is unreadable at that size. Do you have the background image you used for that avatar? I can add the print. but I'd probably ruin the background image if I tried to remove or enlarge the existing text.

I made one small change to your work. Since I use 98, I changed it to say 98.
Rick

This post has been edited by herbalist: 02 June 2007 - 09:34 AM

[glocK_94]

Max_04, on May 31 2007, 09:56 PM, said:

What's font name please?

It's inspired from the font "Visitor". It's widely used for userbars.

herbalist, on Jun 2 2007, 04:31 PM, said:

glock_94, One of the forums I frequent limits their size to 60x60, and the print is unreadable at that size. Do you have the background image you used for that avatar? I can add the print. but I'd probably ruin the background image if I tried to remove or enlarge the existing text.
I made one small change to your work. Since I use 98, I changed it to say 98.

Remember what I was saying about the size limits on some forums?
Just teasing. Here's a 60x60 avatar:


EDIT: I prefer not to do special 98/95/Me version to keep the Windows9x community united (at least here on MSFN)-> we're different but we're all the same !

This post has been edited by glocK_94: 03 June 2007 - 09:23 AM

[herbalist]

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EDIT: I prefer not to do special 98/95/Me version to keep the Windows9x community united (at least here on MSFN)-> we're different but we're all the same !

I can accept that. Then again, having a preference doesn't take away from it either. Kinda like your " Hardcore Win98 fan", which describes me as well. A caption such as "Proud user of DOS based Windows" would cover it too. I'd think it would be a common consensus that DOS is one of the primary reasons for preferring 9X.

Thanks for the avatar(s).

Rick

This post has been edited by herbalist: 03 June 2007 - 02:53 PM

[FoxHound]

I thought I would contribute to the cause with a Userbar I made.

[Philco]

FoxHound, on Jun 3 2007, 03:23 PM, said:

I thought I would contribute to the cause with a Userbar I made.

big size... 350px... please resize an 300 px

[BenoitRen]

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"Proud user of DOS based Windows"

Win9x is not DOS-based!

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I thought I would contribute to the cause with a Userbar I made.

That's Vista eye candy! EVIL! EVIL!

[FoxHound]

Vista Eye candy Evil? NO NO NO!

I even used Tihiy RP7 Skin to create the bar, I thought It would give people who aren't familiar with windows 98 a new view of the old OS. Besides no matter how much I love windows 98, the eye candy could never be compared to that of vistas, so why not use that one?

Anyway here: Reduced to 300x19



I also made another one:



P.S. to other people making bars, wouldn't it be more classy and edgy if you add a 1px border around it?

This post has been edited by FoxHound: 04 June 2007 - 07:06 PM

[BenoitRen]

To illustrate my point:

I can already see everyone laughing: "Hah, he has a 9x user bar, but uses Vista graphics for it! What a contradiction, hahaha! I bet he secretly wants to be running Vista.".

[glocK_94]

FoxHound, on Jun 5 2007, 02:04 AM, said:

P.S. to other people making bars, wouldn't it be more classy and edgy if you add a 1px border around it?

Personnaly, I think it gives a "flat" impression. On the other hand, it looks closed and clean... So I'll just add them if people request borders.

herbalist, on Jun 3 2007, 09:50 AM, said:

Kinda like your " Hardcore Win98 fan"

You get one point! I tried to change that to 9x but my profile won't change if I don't enter a birthdate...
Anyway, glad you like the avatar.