I think the button actually looks good since the site's theme is simplistic, however, the location of the button is not good at all. Perhaps move it to the left? It might break the sites current "code" of having everything in a center frame, but I think it should be in a cell to the left of the page entirely (in the blank space). That way it would be in plain site and still not in the way of the download buttons.
If you need .svg of paypal/bitcoin/credit-card logos I can make some to fit the desired style. Just send me some examples. Regarding marketing, commercials should be actual videos showing IRL example usages of freenet. Such as the person in china who uses it for communication, the wikileaker, etc. etc. (come up with some?) :P That would peak interest. Luke --- On Thu, 6/9/11, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: From: Matthew Toseland <t...@amphibian.dyndns.org> Subject: [freenet-dev] Marketing Freenet: Anyone help? To: devl at freenetproject.org Date: Thursday, June 9, 2011, 12:37 PM Ian has suggested that we might benefit from some of the standard marketing wisdom. Our donate button should be orange, according to some online resources. Somebody want to have a go? Arguably the donate button isn't visible because users go straight to the install button? Dunno what to do about this... We should have a link under or above the Donate button. The CSS may make this tricky. It might make sense to reorganise the donate page a bit: - Does everyone know/have paypal? (apart from geeks who have bitcoins) - should we include credit card icons? Where would we get them from (legally)? - Should it be more compact? And ideally we would A/B-test things. (Note that we have absolutely no resources for advertising, and running other people's adverts for cash is not something we will do unless we have no other choice!) Having said that, IMHO the best ways to get more users and more donations in the medium term are: - To improve Freenet's performance. - To make it easier to invite your friends to Freenet. - To get more volunteers and more content. -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110609/b12b346b/attachment.html>
