I just had an idea, Since the banner is too short to look right if the width is increased to fill the rest of the header, howabout a second (more square-ish) banner about The Document Foundation?
http://www.filefactory.com/file/b561ah6/n/idea4.png Quick demo of duel banner On 13 February 2011 01:38, Bernhard Dippold <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Matt, * > > Matt Sturgeon schrieb: >> >> From the looks of the screenshot, I'd say we may have to resort to a >> non-standard resolution to fit it in nicely with the header... >> >> I'm thinking something that has the same height as the logo, and >> follows the same spacing conventions, filling the right-side of the >> header. >> >> http://www.filefactory.com/file/b5617f9/n/idea2.png This is making >> better use of the space by keeping the text at the right (*VERY* quick >> GIMP mockup) > > I agree - filling all the empty space with a banner attracts more attention. > > I don't think that we need to add the "Home of the LibreOffice Productivity > Suite" text at the side of the banner. It can cover all the area at the > right side of the logo - if we really need the "Productivity Suite" > information in the header, it might find a place inside the banner. > > About the height: We'll probably need mockups to compare 60px height to 45px > height (the height of the logo), but I think every smaller banner than 60px > might have too less space for the content. > >> http://www.filefactory.com/file/b561850/n/idea3.png And this >> alternative is simply inserting a full width banner over the header >> (this is done by nesting<a><div style="width:100%;"><img >> /></div></a>.) - again, a pretty quick knock up in gimp. > > We should avoid adding a full width banner over the page header: > Even if this would be the best eye-catcher, it would move the content even > further down, causing people to scroll for important content. > > Already on the main page this would cause me not to be informed about the > TDF Blog and Twitter at all - why should I scroll? > > Best regards > > Bernhard > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/website/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/website/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
