cinnebar wrote:
Hi agree that excess and overkill is undesirable. The content of the
graphics is still fluxy...still experimenting with ideas... and the set
online is gradually being updated... http://bit.ly/iItaQ
The oriental symbol is a Japanese symbol for couch and I have been using it
because images cant be translated the way text can. Do you think that the
use of this symbol would alienate American or European users or compromises
the 'identity' of CouchDB?
I wasn't trying to improve the CouchDB logo at all! I agree its pure
awesome. The headers I have been making concerned with bonding the logo to
a page specific look and feel while referencing a lazily consistent
structure across a group of pages. I guess the idea is to condense a whole
lot of information into a tiny and immediate amount of space, geared more
for new or infrequent users. The file sizes now average somewhere between
10 to 20Kb, which isnt big for graphics.
Most of the time new users will already have a doubt what CouchDB is
about and are well served with the documentation and help from IRC, so
putting “a whole lot of information” into the logo doesn't win us much.
We would have to add other translations of “Couch” if we add a Japanese
symbol/translation. Also, the “Couch” in CouchDB is an acronym for
“Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware” (I remembered that from a
screencast I've seen and had to google it…should be on the homepage?!),
so that makes it even a bad idea to translate it.
Adding “Planet” or “Wiki” is not necessary, that information is already
present in a heading or highlighted in the navigation bar.
I like the idea of this graphic a lot but I am not sure it is relevant to
the feature set of the Relaxville app if that is important? I don't have a
better idea for Relaxville.
It might be sufficient to just change the “relax” from the linked logo
above to “relaxville”. *g*
I am looking forward to seeing the new wiki styling :)
I appreciate the feedback.
Cheers
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