h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Breaking with tradition ever so slightly - our biggest ever contributor Mr Legion has come up with a Prolouge that develops on a historical aspect of one of the characters which is little more than a throw-away-line (or several) which occur throughout the story.

I think it would make rather a good promo piece that could perhaps be run alongside, before or after the Cast list we have put up in the past - and I would welcome your views on what to do with it.

You can view a rough treatment of the prologue here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/classic/A856109

Clive.

I got the RED, it looks realy firery too, I'll upload when I get home to yahoo.

as for clive I'll email my address were you can view.

-- DoctorMO --

COOOOOOL.

right people thats a wrap, I got 3 other pics to be getting on with, I'm going to wait for an all clear from Clive, Amy and then Shazz.

--DoctorMO --

If Clive's happy you can go ahead and ftp it to Shazz .

Amy

Give it a bit of a trim before you send it please. It isn't quite central on its background.



Amy

OK, now it's jusr clive.

-- DoctorMO --

Hi Clive

Promo piece looks good! I think it would be a good idea to run it the same week as the cast list and then plunge into the story proper the following week including a permanent link to both.

MO - you haven't ftp'd this to the Post folder on the server - where have you placed it for me to see?


*waves to Amy *

shazz

if you go onto my website doctormo.ath.cx, you may see it there.

-- DoctorMO--

from me!

I'm still coding up the story (down to the last led of the forum now - so exciting! ) but if the storytime sequel logo gets blobbed I can add that in as well.

Looking good

Are they perhaps a little on the big side? I'm not sure of the dimensions - but Amy will be

shazz

I'm confused - where can humble members of the public see these glorious 's renditions?

If you go to MO's homespace and look for the link to his website you can see them there.

shazz

oh yeah.

The *other* link.

They are different in size from the specifications we now have (500 x 100 or 200 x 160) but the specs weren't so clear when these graphics were started back in May. The filesize is well within limits though so we'll pretend this is a 500 x 100 banner.

I can see the goo background faintly on my monitor but it's not bothering me. Is it a problem for anyone else? It can't be made transparent because the fiery effect requires it to be a jpg.

Amy

Nope - it looks fine to me

OK... we'll wait until we are ready to run the prologue and cast list and then get it blobbed - it needs a Post front page to be attached to Clive.

shazz

I'm just about the crop and reload...

-- DoctorMO --

OK this is weird, they don't need cropping, what you going on about amy

-- DoctorMO --

I want you to take 5 pixels off the right hand side to centralise the image (the extra pixels on the left hand side balance out the pixels needed for the drop shadow on the right hand side and shouldn't be trimmed).

Also you could take about 3 or 4 pixels off the bottom and 2 off the top. This will reduce the file size slightly but isn't as important as centralising the image.

Amy

Your wish is granted, [nit picking grumble], I have not croped, horror. instead I have added 5 pixels to the left to 'balance' the picture.

-- DoctorMO --