On Monday 06 Aug 2012 18:13:55 Florent Daigniere wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 01:39:56PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > On Monday 06 Aug 2012 01:08:40 Luke R. wrote: > > > It was per the following conversation: > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > 2012-08-03 #freenet irc.freenode.net > > > [21:47:24] <Gaming4JC> I can still make graphics \o > > > ... > > > [21:48:38] <@operhiem1> Gaming4JC: Do you think you could make a download > > > button that doesn't look sickly? I don't like the "Download" button on > > > the front page. The gradient seems off. > > > ... > > > [21:49:12] <@operhiem1> I do like http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ 's > > > download button, though it might be a bit too dim. > > > [21:49:20] <@operhiem1> There's a UI to help with translations. > > > [21:49:32] <@operhiem1> Though IIRC I thought it required more clicking > > > than I'd like. > > > [21:49:42] <@operhiem1> Let me know and I can patch it. > > > ... > > > [21:50:03] <Gaming4JC> sure let me check :) > > > ... > > > [21:52:26] <Gaming4JC> hmm... The download box on VLCs button is kinda > > > nice. > > > [21:52:55] <Gaming4JC> looks a little cutty pastie on the bottom though > > > ... > > > [22:01:39] <Gaming4JC> operhiem1: You want it in SVG for scalabilty? > > > [22:01:50] <Gaming4JC> the download button that is. > > > ... > > > [22:06:18] <@operhiem1> Gaming4JC: Sure! > > > [22:06:18] <@operhiem1> I think PNGs might render faster though. > > > [22:06:18] <@operhiem1> It'd good to have lossless source material. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > I think it adds more brand to the page, you can see the two attached > > > photos. One of the propsed button and one of VLC website. However, I do > > > like the height of the old button and the fact that it changes color on > > > mouseover. This is of course reproducible with the new button as well. > > > > > > I've also the SVG file if anyone would like to use it. I chose GNU Free > > > Documentation License for it since the main website also uses this > > > license. :) > > > > > > --- On Sun, 8/5/12, Ian Clarke <ian at locut.us> wrote: > > > > > > From: Ian Clarke <ian at locut.us> > > > Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] Download button for new site > > > To: "Discussion of development issues" <devl at freenetproject.org> > > > Date: Sunday, August 5, 2012, 12:23 PM > > > > > > I appreciate the effort, however I don't think these are an improvement > > > over the current download buttons on the current site. > > > Was there something wrong with the current buttons that prompted you to > > > try to replace them? > > > > > > > > > > > > Ian. > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Luke R. <gaming4jc2 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > So we were discussing in IRC a few days ago that a new button is needed > > > for the new Freenet site. I had originally thought of a rabbit hole with > > > an arrow pointing down it, but opted for the traditional box for the sake > > > of international awareness that a box with an arrow usually means > > > download. Although if you think I should do that or modify these images > > > in some way just let me know. > > > > > > > > > > > > Here's two test images I am proposing - > > > http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/7980/path4551.png <-- Colorful Box > > > (used for NewYears?) > > > > > > > > > http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/6945/path4552.png <-- Regular Box > > > > > > As all files are in SVG they are nice and scalable and with multiple > > > layers. Courtesy of InkScape! :D > > > > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Any chance we could resolve this empirically via A/B testing, like everyone > > else does? > > > > I think the Google Analytics thing has some support for this but I guess > > we'd need to implement it ourself. I dunno how we could do that while still > > using static php at run time? Any sysadmin people have any ideas? > > Yes, you do it in javascript... just like google analytics does it.
So we don't need to change the server at all, we can just set up alternative versions using google analytics ... Well just a thought: Try it out. Maybe tweak it a bit first. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20120806/4420021d/attachment.pgp>
