The Bountiful City Skyline

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

The Bountiful City Skyline

arbilad · Head Chef

Find me one that's not copyrighted, or that allows uses like as a forum banner, and I'll change. I decided to use this since, although it is copyrighted, the copyright owner has allowed the use of the photograph in all circumstances.

Melissa · Veteran Member

Sheesh, Ray! Picky, picky.

I was actually coming on this thread to thank whoever put it up and to say how beautiful that picture was. It made me gasp a little when I saw it. Of course, I live in Kansas where we don't have mountains, so it's extra special.

arbilad · Head Chef

Melissa wrote:

Sheesh, Ray! Picky, picky.

I was actually coming on this thread to thank whoever put it up and to say how beautiful that picture was. It made me gasp a little when I saw it. Of course, I live in Kansas where we don't have mountains, so it's extra special.

Thank you.
BTW, just as a piece of useless information, when I decided on the name of the board, I was thinking more of the land Bountiful in the Book of Mormon, and not the current city in Utah. However, try finding a photograph of the land Bountiful during BoM times.

Pink Floyd · Veteran Member

Want me to step outside and take a picture of the Bountiful Temple for you???

Actually, what I should do is go take a picture of Pace's Dairy Ann.

Or tomorrow night is the Bountiful/Viewmont football game. I could probably get some blood in the parking lot for you...

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

It's a pretty picture and all, but now I have to scroll down evertime I click on a link.

It is starting to bug me.

Is there any way to limit the picture to the main page only?

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Pinky: Paces!? Get me a fresh lime slushy!!! I'd also like you to stop by Robintinos and get me a Cenetta, I like the ham and pineapple pizza! ;) And then get me some salsa from Su Casa...

Arb: Yeah, I figured you were thinking of the Book of Mormon... but I still think the Bountiful Temple is gorgeous... If I have time anytime soon, I'll try to put together a banner and I'll put it up as a reference on my deviantart site. (Did google search, There are hundreds of online pics of the Bountiful temple...)

--Ray

Mattai · Member

What about a picture of a cornucopia to represent "Bountiful"?

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

That's a corny idea!

Spotted Horse · Veteran Member

Fruity and nutty, too!

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Hey Arbilad...

I did this banner for the board this morning... Admittedly if I had ANY expertise whatsoever with Photoshop it would look a ton better. I think it looks okay though... and you can probably stretch it and make it fit the whole top of the webpage if you set the img attributes correctly on the page.

Grab and save the image at...

http://ic3.deviantart.com/fs11/i/2006/257/6/c/bountiful_banner_by_raybies.jpg

--Ray

arbilad · Head Chef

rayb wrote:

Hey Arbilad...

I did this banner for the board this morning... Admittedly if I had ANY expertise whatsoever with Photoshop it would look a ton better. I think it looks okay though... and you can probably stretch it and make it fit the whole top of the webpage if you set the img attributes correctly on the page.

Grab and save the image at...

http://ic3.deviantart.com/fs11/i/2006/257/6/c/bountiful_banner_by_raybies.jpg

--Ray

I appreciate the effort, but until I get past this server error at your site, I can't get it:
The following error was encountered:

* Access Denied.

Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

I got the same error message.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

weird... I'll try it again... I could email you the jpeg. What's yer email?

--Ray

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/39788334/?q=by%3Araybies+in%3Ascraps+sort%3Atime

Try this link. Make sure you click on the thumbnail image, then save it to your disk... at the right size...

--Ray

arbilad · Head Chef

rayb wrote:

weird... I'll try it again... I could email you the jpeg. What's yer email?

--Ray

You can post it as a file to the forum. There's a button when you're posting entitled "Attach File"
I think that you can do the same thing with private messages.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

try the new link cited above...

--Ray

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

If I get more time I'll fiddle with other ideas for a banner, dunno what's the standard size, or whatever... Enjoy...

--Ray

arbilad · Head Chef

rayb wrote:

If I get more time I'll fiddle with other ideas for a banner, dunno what's the standard size, or whatever... Enjoy...

--Ray

Well, I've temporarily put up the banner. I can't find a way to upload it yet, so I'm just using the url to Ray's banner for now. That means that the second Ray changes it it won't work. I'll find a better solution soon.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

The problem is that deviantart isn't a good image host... :( I wish I had a better solution, some place better for it. Do you have to provide a URL for your image? Does anyone out there have a decent webpage? You'd think Google would have something...

--Ray

arbilad · Head Chef

rayb wrote:

The problem is that deviantart isn't a good image host... :( I wish I had a better solution, some place better for it. Do you have to provide a URL for your image? Does anyone out there have a decent webpage? You'd think Google would have something...

--Ray

Well, when I get some time on a real computer tonight, I'll be able to transfer it to my website. I serve images from there all the time.

arbilad · Head Chef

Ok, the banner is now hosted on my site, so hopefully it will work well.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Cool... it came right up!! Sweet... :) I hope folks like it.

--Ray

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

You know, I like the picture and all, but.... I like the idea of the Land Bountiful in the BoM better. Isn't there a painting of Jesus at the Temple in Bountiful... in the gospel art picture kit or something?

This new banner makes it look like we're promoting the city of Bountiful, Utah. Are we?

If not, maybe there should be a disclaimer to that effect... ?

I dunno.

-bok

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

maybe if I murmur enough it'll be obvious that we're not promoting Bountiful Utah...

arbilad · Head Chef

bokbadok wrote:

You know, I like the picture and all, but.... I like the idea of the Land Bountiful in the BoM better. Isn't there a painting of Jesus at the Temple in Bountiful... in the gospel art picture kit or something?

This new banner makes it look like we're promoting the city of Bountiful, Utah. Are we?

If not, maybe there should be a disclaimer to that effect... ?

I dunno.

-bok

I've decided that Bok was right - after all, my original reason for choosing the name Bountiful was because of the Book of Mormon land. So I found a picture of the resurrected Christ at the Bountiful temple, and modified it for my own uses.

Oh, and I did a slight background change.

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

Of course, there is always the hope that having a picture with Christ at the center of it will help to instill a bit of decorum into certain posts and conversations that may or could potentially be lacking... Not that we have been having a lot of problem with this... But some folks could ask if they are going to feel as free to speak freely... Begs the question then of what they define as the difference between speaking freely and speaking in a mutually respectful manner.

The only concern I have with the new "skyline" is that the image is derived from a copyrighted... er, but then most of us probably have copyrighted derived images as our avatars...

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

Hey Arbilad, I like the new picture. But the Christmas background kinda clashes with it, dontcha think?

Face it. The combo is just plain Ugly.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Very busy... nice to see things changing... it's fun to jump in and see a change. :)

--Ray

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

If you copy the background image down to your desktop, you can see what Arbilad is covering up by the new Bountiful banner...

arbilad · Head Chef

bokbadok wrote:

Hey Arbilad, I like the new picture. But the Christmas background kinda clashes with it, dontcha think?

Face it. The combo is just plain Ugly.

Does this work better for you, Bok?
With the earlier background picture, I compromised. I made the mistake of searching for a good Christmas wallpaper, and didn't find one that I liked. So I found one that I thought worked.
But I vastly prefer what I've done now. I just found a misletoe picture and used that for the background. Much simpler, and the colors are much brighter. All of the Christmas wallpaper I found was too busy and complicated to make a good forum background. But I really like the colors now.
Of course, I'm no good at matching colors, so maybe it's still ugly.

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

Yes arbs, this is better. Thank you for relieving the debilitating headaches!

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Love the Holly. It'll be a pagan christmas for sure!

--Ray

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

Thank goodness it is only holly and not mistletoe... we'd all have to be kissing one another everytime we logged in...

I can see it now... (to the tune of I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus)
I saw Rayb kissing Arbilad
In the onine forum late last night
It was a shock to see
I was afriad of getting cooties
So I logged off before anyone could get hold of me

glumirk · Senior Member

rayb wrote:

Love the Holly. It'll be a pagan christmas for sure!

--Ray

The holly definitely isn't pagan. haven't you heard The Holly and the Ivy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holly_and_the_Ivy

Some say it is of pagan origin, but it's definitely been turned to Christ.

Roper · Senior Bucketkeeper

I like the blue snowflakes, Arbi. I probably won't see any real ones here in Fort Worth, so these will bring back sentimental images of my idyllic childhood Idaho when I would come into the house crying because my fingers and toes were frozen.

Good times. Good times.

arbilad · Head Chef

My wife twisted my arm to do the snowflakes. For a short period of time I had, as a joke, a tonka truck as the background. But yes, I think that snowflakes are a nice generic winter theme.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

I like the little "To:" and "From:" on each of them.

TitusTodd · Senior Member

I like the blue snowflakes, Arbi. I probably won't see any real ones here in Fort Worth, so these will bring back sentimental images of my idyllic childhood Idaho when I would come into the house crying because my fingers and toes were frozen.

Good times. Good times.

Ah...those are great memories...