Banner Request for NHL Simulation league.

[appydoopy]

Hello everyone.
I'm running an FHM2 simulation hockey league. We will eventually have our own website domain but our forums will be hosted using proboards.
We are in desperate need of a banner as mine is rather lacking.
I actually had to shrink our forum to 67% to fit the banner I made as I'm terrible at it.
Our forum is here: iNHL

Our name is the iNHL or interNetional Hockey League. I wanted to make a banner using the NHL's actual logo with a lowercase "i" in front of it and the banner on the forum is what I came up with...
Our forums colors are white, blue and red to reflect the ice surface so I was hoping to use something around those colors.
This is the original banner I used: www.sportula.com/media/catalog/category/NHL_BANNER.jpg
I'd like something unique along those lines. But I am seriously suffering from any original thoughts on the matter so I'm kind of leaving this open as a free reign project to deliver us something really unique and cool that fits well with the basic aesthetic of our forum theme. I would like the banner to fit the normal 100% forum size if possible as well.
We will also be using the banner on our eventual website which will host stats and reports for our league members if that isn't a problem.

Many thanks in advance to anyone that tackles this project.

[Phear]

Hey appydoopy

Sorry this took so long, as I hadn't seen it until this morning! I hope this is what you had in mind. Let me know any changes.



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This Banner is 1,920px wide, and 300px high. When you set it as your Forum Banner, make sure to align it CENTER TOP. That way it will work in the middle of any screen resolution.

[appydoopy]

That is amazing!! Thank you so much! You did give me an idea though. If you could add and change a few slight things for us.
If you look at this NHL rink diagram to see what I'll be talking about www.hockeyshare.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/hockey_rink_diagram.jpg

Could you maybe move the red lines a bit farther out from the middle and make them blue and then add the four red dots that are inside of the blue lines in the corners and then put a red line down the middle behind the iNHL Crest logo so it looks like the middle neutral zone of the rink?
If you could do that I am forever indebted to you haha

Also would it be to much to ask for the iNHL Crest logo you made as a standalone image as well? It looks great and I wouldn't mind being able to use it elsewhere on the forums.

Thank you Gridlines we greatly appreciate this.

[Phear]

Of course appydoopy! I've updated the banner with your changes, and hope it looks good.



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And here's a large PNG of the logo for you to use in other areas. You can scale it really well, since it's a png file.



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[appydoopy]

Many many thank yous Gridlines! This is perfect! I won't forget about you when I win the lottery some day.

[Phear]

Glad to help!