You may have noticed that my giant face has disappeared from the top of your monitor. Do not adjust, and don't panic!, but that's permanent. It's a distressing surprise that this comes as a relief—I was planning to change it up, anyway. Do I not enjoy staring at my head? That can't be right.
Anyway, I don't have Photoshop (or Photoshop skillz) but if one of you has the time to throw together a simple banner, will you e-mail me? In the meantime, I'm going to try to jigger something up with this B-grade paint program, but outlook: not so good on that.
UPDATE: Thanks for the generous response! I'm a little busy right now to sort through these great offers, but you'll hear from me soon.
Posted by Kriston at January 30, 2006 1:16 PMA banner? What are the size requirements?
Posted by: son1 at January 30, 2006 1:41 PM698 pixels wide and I can't tell how many high. That's not helpful, is it?
I should make this a contest! If I handed out my pic, the entries would be hilarious and dispiriting.
Posted by: Kriston at January 30, 2006 1:47 PMYeah, a contest is good. (Can you estimate how high?) I'll go solicit entries from some artsy types I know.
Posted by: son1 at January 30, 2006 1:48 PMAh, 204 px tall. That's what my stylesheet (#hdr) says, anyway. Sounds about right. But I can't figure out the hexidecimal for this background color.
No need to actually do a contest, unless the purpose is to mock.
Posted by: Kriston at January 30, 2006 2:06 PMIn my many years on this earth, I've learned that this "mockery" will happen (if it's going to happen) whether or not you set up a contest to facilitate it or not.
Anyhoo, 698x204. Sounds good.
What do you want it to look like in particular, anyway?
Posted by: son1 at January 30, 2006 2:15 PMI mean, of course, what should the text look like... "Grammar.police"? Wasn't there some weird bracket in the old banner?
Posted by: son1 at January 30, 2006 2:17 PMgoogle 'gimpshop' for a good os x photoshop replacement.
and yeah, maybe I'll take a stab at this.
Posted by: tom at January 30, 2006 3:33 PMTom, you do enough in service of the Kriston Capps blogging empire, really, you're not obligated. No one is! We can just leave an empty block at the top.
Posted by: Kriston at January 30, 2006 3:44 PMCan you make it an empty block of the same color that you can click on to take you back to the "main" page?
Sorry to keep harping on this though...
Posted by: son1 at January 30, 2006 4:35 PMWhat, was there a copyright infringement with your evil-identical twin?
Posted by: Fletch at January 30, 2006 11:27 PMI'm kinda getting used to that little box w/ the X in it...
Posted by: David at January 31, 2006 12:12 PMi sent in something. i'll revisit it tomorrow.
i included an error message for David's edification.
Posted by: seth at January 31, 2006 10:47 PM