THLIB.org Banner Documentation The banners for THL were made to accommodate a template that can change widths from 100% monitor width down to 1024px which as of 2010 still accounts for approx. 20-30% of users. Therefore the banners are usually created with two small images, one for left and one for right. Occasionally some banners are only one image that often reveals more of itself as the width expands. Additionally some banners have a title text that is a transparent png image related to the fact that the banner needs to expand, and therefore the background image 'slides' below the title image which stays pinned to the left. The development server has some sections still being developed and therefore many banners are not created, and some files represent only design ideas being tested. David contracted with a student to make numerous banners, Jason Bennet, these original Photoshop files have not been retrieved although many of the jpg images he was working on, some incomplete, are gathered within a zip file at the root level of the banners folder in Collab. The banners are placed into different folders representing the top-level directories on the development site of THL. In some of these folders are created 1-2 other sub-directories to aid organization although I suggest we not go too deep with the sub-directories to avoid excessive clicking - the goal is just basic organization of the files not to mirror exactly THL directory structures. The root level of the banners directory currently contains some banners with undetermined portal locations. Perhaps someone that knows where they go could place them accordingly into their correct directory. ---------------------------------------------- Multiple Language versions of banner titles: The root level of each directory will be assumed to be the English version. To create the alternate language versions we are probably best off to use the same Photoshop files the english versions are created with to avoid any editing changes being made to one version but not the other - this would apply mainly to the titles that are incorporated into the graphic design image itself. When the title is a separate transparent png file, the alternate language version will often be much larger perhaps and therefore it should be made as a new Photoshop document since the size of the png image will need to change significantly. Please remember that transparent png files are 24bit files and should be kept cropped and as small as possible to reduce file download time.