Previously submitted ideas:

Here's mine:

I made it ages ago, but I only just registered...

EDIT: Aww, photobucket has a file size limit...

Large version herehttp://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=ryjjm23tmyy&thumb=4 to download:
just ignore the file not found image, it's still downoadable.

when does this contest close?

There's no set closing time, as it's not really a contest. People can just submit stuff and eventually Tirian will either choose one he likes or find something else. This is just a participation event for people to help Tirian out.

Gotcha! Thanks Gymfan. Here are 2 that I made. I may try my hand at more later.

(I was a little confused about the sidebar. I guess this would be the sidebar and then the background would be a solid color (probably blue, grey, or white).

There might be a problem with your aslan one, Kate. The image is fixed from the top left, as far as I know, so most people won't see aslan because of their screen size.

Seeing as how i lack both the artistic talent, and the relevant computer programs necessary to create a background, i was thinking i could perhaps throw an idea out there for someone else to take up if they fancied it.

Staying within the pre-existing NarniaWeb colour scheme of Brown and Gold i was thinking it would be quite nice to do a very simple take on the Dawn Treader "swirls" pattern that can be seen on the side of the ships hull (which conveniently is also Brown and Gold). Perhaps with a swirl or two, replicated from the ship set, running down each side of the page, and maybe even a few of the other design motifs on the Dawn Treader (the fish, the starfish, etc) included as well, to form a nice pattern.

It wouldn't need to be too elaborate, the simpler the better really. But i think it would work well as a sort of subtle reference to the Dawn Treader movie, without being too distracting from the actual page content.

Nice idea icarus, i'm going to give that a try!

Ahh, good point Palagrin.

Here's another one.

Icarus, there may be a problem with doing your idea- you wouldn't be able to do both sides swirls, because again it all depend on the screen width etc.

I made this one a while ago.

As a background it should look something like this, but I am uncertain if it will work on all monitors. Does anyone know?

Kate: Your Aslan themed one looks professional. I feel like I am going to flying into on exciting adventure and I can't stop it. Your ship is nice as well. Where did you get your moon pictures?

Icarus: You suggested that we make a reference to the Dawn Treader. Do you plan to change the background for every movie?

Off Topic
anybody: Is there a good hosting site besides ImageShack?

Off Topic
anybody: Is there a good hosting site besides ImageShack?

Photobucket, In my opinion. All though it has an image sze limit, so you can't have super huge images.

I'm not very good at Photoshop, so I drew a picture and used Photoshop to the best of my ability. I hope the size is ok, the link to the twitter size's wasn't working for me.

Here's one

Here's Two

I realized you can't really see the pictures so here are better versions.

Miraz:

Large version http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=1mjmdj2mw2o&thumb=6

Download full size(1800x1500px, 4 mb) http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=1mjmdj2mw2o&thumb=4
I reccomend downloading it, the thumbnail is so tiny.