[Spike]

I have a new header on my site. Its still needs some minor improvements in quality.

Due to the wordpress theme its not possible to make it full screen so the black parts on the left and right can't be removed. That sucks.

any opinions on improvements or extra's/cool idea's

[Kona]

(04-10-2012 04:37 AM)Neil Skywalker Wrote:  

I have a new header on my site. Its still needs some minor improvements in quality.

Due to the wordpress theme its not possible to make it full screen so the black parts on the left and right can't be removed. That sucks.

any opinions on improvements or extra's/cool idea's

I think the guy lighting the cigarette off the sword is awesome Neil.

Here's the thing, I only saw the first three Star Wars and that's been twenty years, but that's Darth Vader.

You are Neil Skywalker, hence you need a picture of Luke Skywalker. Now if memory serves, Darth Vader was always looking to kick Lukes ass.

Still it's looking good.

Aloha!

[Smitty]

Hey Neil, I don't have any suggestions for your site at the moment, but wanted to say it's looking good man. It's been 6+ months since I last looked and there is a definite improvement. Your stories are much better and all the photos are money. Definitely a gold mine for anyone considering traveling to the places you've been and written about. Keep up the good work.

[Spike]

@Kona, You need to watch the movies again bro. Darth Vader is Luke's father, his name is Anakin Skywalker. Thats basically what the last three movies where about. Anakin was a good guy first but turned to the dark side and became Darth Vader. Kinda like my trip from beta to alpha.

I tried to find a picture of me where i could photoshop a lightsaber in but that's too difficult. Maybe i need a profesional photographer to make a picture like that. Would be cool though.

@smitty thanks

[Roosh]

Looks good except for the text styling on the right. Seems too basic.

Hire some guy on fiverr.com to do something better.

[Laner]

Yeah the drop shadow two colour font is dated.

Also the background image seems pixelated. If you have the original image, crop that and use that image. Seeing pixels in today's high definition world looks amateur.

Like roosh says, try fiver.com.

[Spike]

I had never heard of fiver.com but the site looks like a gold mine. I will find some people to make a better one, Thanks Roosh and Laner

Any recommedations to fill the banner with some extra things ?

[Spike]

(04-10-2012 08:22 AM)Laner Wrote:  

Yeah the drop shadow two colour font is dated.

Also the background image seems pixelated. If you have the original image, crop that and use that image. Seeing pixels in today's high definition world looks amateur.

Like roosh says, try fiver.com.

It does look pixelated. I have the original picture of the girl on the beach. I took it, its my Russian girlfriend but it the quality got very bad after resizing and cropping the picture. I need to get that fixed because i do want to use it.

[worldwidetraveler]

Neil, I have a background in graphic design so I may be a little more critical.

It looks like the banner has two themes. I do like the star wars part but think you are better off leaving it off simply because it doesn't belong there and you don't want any more copyright problems like the lonely planet.

You have too much space. Meaning the beach is pretty big with the image of the woman in the middle and the text way to the right. It makes it look bland. You need more stuff going on in that header like different scenes from different countries.

What I would do is look at movie posters that have different movie scenes. Look how they incorporated all the scenes to make it look like a complete scene. You had a great adventure and that should be your theme. You were all over the world and showing different countries and you going crazy would be more appropriate for your blog. So check out action movie posters to get an idea of what type of banner to do.

Like I said before, the banner should be second to your posting. You don't need to have everything perfect before you post a lot and get traffic.

[Spike]

(04-10-2012 09:13 AM)worldwidetraveler Wrote:  

Neil, I have a background in graphic design so I may be a little more critical.

It looks like the banner has two themes. I do like the star wars part but think you are better off leaving it off simply because it doesn't belong there and you don't want any more copyright problems like the lonely planet.

You have too much space. Meaning the beach is pretty big with the image of the woman in the middle and the text way to the right. It makes it look bland. You need more stuff going on in that header like different scenes from different countries.

What I would do is look at movie posters that have different movie scenes. Look how they incorporated all the scenes to make it look like a complete scene. You had a great adventure and that should be your theme. You were all over the world and showing different countries and you going crazy would be more appropriate for your blog. So check out action movie posters to get an idea of what type of banner to do.

Like I said before, the banner should be second to your posting. You don't need to have everything perfect before you post a lot and get traffic.

This is just a start for the header. I'm also trying to get a bigger header but that requires changing the theme which might be a lot of work. I'm trying to get that fixed also. The header is now restricted to 960 x 200 pixels in this theme. I tried several other themes but i like this one except for the small header size. Ideally it would be 1000 x 350 so the header is more visible on screen.

This is one of my old headers which looked more "full" but i banged those girls and dont want to get more trouble for it: [attachment=5690]

[worldwidetraveler]

(04-10-2012 09:26 AM)Neil Skywalker Wrote:  

This is just a start for the header. I'm also trying to get a bigger header but that requires changing the theme which might be a lot of work. I'm trying to get that fixed also. The header is now restricted to 960 x 200 pixels in this theme. I tried several other themes but i like this one except for the small header size. Ideally it would be 1000 x 350 so the header is more visible on screen.

This is one of my old headers which looked more "full" :

Yeah, I like that one better. I think you need to get someone who knows photoshop to make it look more like one theme.

Like this.
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/3209/...erbyfr.jpg

Noticed how they used scenes and made them translucent to make them part of the overal poster.

Or you can blow up one scene like this.
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/The-Rat-Pa...51653_.htm

It just needs to have a lot going on instead of the woman on the beach.

[Spike]

I have used a guy on fiver to make me a header. its only 5 bucks so lets see what he comes up with. It might give me some extra ideas.

[Tuthmosis]

I don't understand why Skywalker has a picture of his dad (Darth Vader) on his header. I'd do you with some some droids. That'd be dope.

[sine wave killer]

I think it looks good but my suggestions are -

See if you can get an HD photo with the chick on the beach.

my only other tidbit is that you should try using the same "star wars" font with "around the world in 80 girls". I don't know which type of software your using to do edits, but if your using any adobe product just turn on the grid and also play around with the direction of the words.

There's also room to play around with the two black/gray areas on the ends of the header, Tuth made a cool suggestion about the droids.

[soup]

How about a 'flesh' colored light-saber?

[durangotang]

Looking good Neil.

[Spike]

(04-10-2012 03:42 PM)sine wave killer Wrote:  

I think it looks good but my suggestions are -

See if you can get an HD photo with the chick on the beach.

my only other tidbit is that you should try using the same "star wars" font with "around the world in 80 girls". I don't know which type of software your using to do edits, but if your using any adobe product just turn on the grid and also play around with the direction of the words.

There's also room to play around with the two black/gray areas on the ends of the header, Tuth made a cool suggestion about the droids.

I've been thinking about that Star Wars font for a while and might try it out but i have to be careful that the Star wars bit doesn't overrules the actual round the world trip while getting flag and banging girls.
i have a good quality picture of the chick. It took it since she was my Russian girlfriend. The quality turned bad after sizing down the picture. i have a friend in the Phils who does my header stuff but yesterday i also tried someone on fiverr.com like Roosh advised. That website is awesome.

Tuth's suggestion about the droids whill be in consideration, i might find pictures of some cool droided up chicks.

The two black/grey areas next to header cant be changed since the header has a fixed width of 960 pixels instead of flexible width or 1000 pixels. I'm trying to fix that but i might need to do a lot of css changes, something i know very little about. I've been experimenting with yet another theme also but i like this one the most besides the small header.

[Deluge]

If Fiverr can't get it done, try Odesk. The two of them are absolute god sends.

[Greek kamaki]

I would put a smoking joint and a dildo in orange covered by Asian flags.

[Spike]

(04-11-2012 03:53 AM)P Dog Wrote:  

If Fiverr can't get it done, try Odesk. The two of them are absolute god sends.

Thanks for the tip on Odesk, it might be more expensive though. I'll see what the fiver guy comes up with. Tonight i might try another Wordpress theme for my site. I downloaded a cool one yesterday named custom community but couldn't get it to work properly.

[brianmark]

(04-10-2012 09:26 AM)Neil Skywalker Wrote:  

(04-10-2012 09:13 AM)worldwidetraveler Wrote:  

Neil, I have a background in graphic design so I may be a little more critical.

It looks like the banner has two themes. I do like the star wars part but think you are better off leaving it off simply because it doesn't belong there and you don't want any more copyright problems like the lonely planet.

You have too much space. Meaning the beach is pretty big with the image of the woman in the middle and the text way to the right. It makes it look bland. You need more stuff going on in that header like different scenes from different countries.

What I would do is look at movie posters that have different movie scenes. Look how they incorporated all the scenes to make it look like a complete scene. You had a great adventure and that should be your theme. You were all over the world and showing different countries and you going crazy would be more appropriate for your blog. So check out action movie posters to get an idea of what type of banner to do.

Like I said before, the banner should be second to your posting. You don't need to have everything perfect before you post a lot and get traffic.

This is just a start for the header. I'm also trying to get a bigger header but that requires changing the theme which might be a lot of work. I'm trying to get that fixed also. The header is now restricted to 960 x 200 pixels in this theme. I tried several other themes but i like this one except for the small header size. Ideally it would be 1000 x 350 so the header is more visible on screen.

This is one of my old headers which looked more "full" but i banged those girls and dont want to get more trouble for it:

I finished the Cambodia section of your book and all I can say is way too much drama for me. I try to never bang girls who are friends of each other and try my best to never bang girls that even knows the each other. You are lucky you still have your dick or your life after dealing with a bunch of drunk, doped up, wild, crazy, girls in Cambodia. Are any of the girls in you story the girls on this header?

I just finished the story of the fat Belgian girl at the beach. That was very funny!

[Spike]

(06-19-2012 10:06 PM)brianmark Wrote:  

(04-10-2012 09:26 AM)Neil Skywalker Wrote:  

(04-10-2012 09:13 AM)worldwidetraveler Wrote:  

Neil, I have a background in graphic design so I may be a little more critical.

It looks like the banner has two themes. I do like the star wars part but think you are better off leaving it off simply because it doesn't belong there and you don't want any more copyright problems like the lonely planet.

You have too much space. Meaning the beach is pretty big with the image of the woman in the middle and the text way to the right. It makes it look bland. You need more stuff going on in that header like different scenes from different countries.

What I would do is look at movie posters that have different movie scenes. Look how they incorporated all the scenes to make it look like a complete scene. You had a great adventure and that should be your theme. You were all over the world and showing different countries and you going crazy would be more appropriate for your blog. So check out action movie posters to get an idea of what type of banner to do.

Like I said before, the banner should be second to your posting. You don't need to have everything perfect before you post a lot and get traffic.

This is just a start for the header. I'm also trying to get a bigger header but that requires changing the theme which might be a lot of work. I'm trying to get that fixed also. The header is now restricted to 960 x 200 pixels in this theme. I tried several other themes but i like this one except for the small header size. Ideally it would be 1000 x 350 so the header is more visible on screen.

This is one of my old headers which looked more "full" but i banged those girls and dont want to get more trouble for it:

I finished the Cambodia section of your book and all I can say is way too much drama for me. I try to never bang girls who are friends of each other and try my best to never bang girls that even knows the each other. You are lucky you still have your dick or your life after dealing with a bunch of drunk, doped up, wild, crazy, girls in Cambodia. Are any of the girls in you story the girls on this header?

I just finished the story of the fat Belgian girl at the beach. That was very funny!

Hey Brian,

I like some drama, makes me feel alive and all fired up to have girls fist fighting about. You know you're wanted by a girl if they are exchanging punches over you, haha.

The darker girl on the left of me in the old header is Dara and the girl on the left is Nhu ( the one that caused the second fight about me). I don't think i will go back to Cambodia soon after all the death threats i received last year. Mostly from the lame expat community there but still, they might talk major shit about me to Khmers who will not be that forgiving. It's still a country where dollars can buy a lot of law.

Yeah, that Belgium flag story is quite funny but what can you do after such cockblocking with the Swedish chick.

[Caligula]

Looking forward to reading the book.

How did you get the website designed in the end and how much did it cost you?

[Spike]

(06-20-2012 09:58 AM)Caligula Wrote:  

Looking forward to reading the book.

How did you get the website designed in the end and how much did it cost you?

Hey Caligula,

The book for sale now in all possible formats except pdf. I did everything myself for this book except for the design of the cover. I bought a new wordpress theme for 40 dolla and this one has unlimited options. Since i have all the rights to the used photo elements on the book cover. I have used them myself to create the header which is pretty awesome if i may say so.

One should really admire Roosh for his work because i found out how much work it is to do everything yourself. It's an unbelievable pile of work even after you finished writing your manuscript. The man is a machine !

[Timoteo]

I read your interview on "Escape from Cube Land." Good stuff ("The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" t-shirt is great!). I'm curious - why no interest in Africa? Not even North or South Africa?