Обсуждение: banner abominations
Hi! Looks like we may get professional design for a new version of website, so I'd like to raise the question about *the* most ugly thing on current one: banners. 1) Do we need these? 2) Do we need them in such a prominent place? I think that the banner that now serves for open-source projects' promotion should be replaced by some "Featured project" section, having a description and a link to the project. This will IMHO work a *lot* better than current home-made banners. The mirror hosters' ads should be displayed on respective mirrors, just as this is done f.e. on http://www.php.net/ The only problem is the sponsors' banners. Does anybody actually buy these, BTW?
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Alexey Borzov wrote: > Hi! > > Looks like we may get professional design for a new version of website, so I'd > like to raise the question about *the* most ugly thing on current one: banners. > > 1) Do we need these? yes > 2) Do we need them in such a prominent place? yes ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
Hi! Marc G. Fournier wrote: >>Looks like we may get professional design for a new version of website, so I'd >>like to raise the question about *the* most ugly thing on current one: banners. >> >>1) Do we need these? > > yes > >>2) Do we need them in such a prominent place? > > yes The obvious question: why? Do we just like that antique 90s look or are there other reasons?
Am Mittwoch, 21. April 2004 09:12 schrieb Alexey Borzov: > The obvious question: why? Do we just like that antique 90s look or are > there other reasons? It's not like we're hauling in mad cash that way either. I think there are better ways to acknowledge mirror providers and promote other open-source projects. The commercial advertisements just have an unethical feeling about it unless there is some public accounting.