On Nov 30, 2006, at 2:42 PM, hepabolu wrote:
This sounds like a good idea, although I do think that the masthead/banner has a large part in the definition of the "look and feel" of the site. In other words the final choice for the banner is also a global decision for the look and feel of the rest of the page.
Absolutely true, the artwork drives the rest of the styling... this is in fact the reason I suggested this approach. Once we've settled on a cool design concept, as represented by one of the masthead comps, then (a) we have some momentum, and (b) someone with the right skills + motivations + access could complete a re-skinning of the site essentially as an elaboration of a "theme" suggested by the new masthead artwork. For instance, I have enough design sensibility to do something like that, but I am not a graphic artist by any stretch of the imagination, so I could never produce the artwork; I think this community must have a lot of people like me in this regard, so if we can get the "creative" aspect done by somebody with actual graphic arts talent+skills, there ought to be somebody who can take that and realize an actual redesign :-).
—ml—
