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At 03:14 AM 8/20/99 , Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.publish, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> writes:
>
> > PS, the Adequate.com logo/banner has a red brick problem too.
>
> IANAL, so I may be way off base, but I wouldn't worry quite as much about
> that image, for several reasons:
>
> 1) It's got a blinking "Search..." on the side; it's not a static image
> of a brick. (Maybe that's not a significant difference.)
>
> 2) What it points at (what it's supposed to point at when you use it) is
> a site which -doesn't- contain the red 2x4 brick in its logo. The red
> 2x4 brick appears only in the 88x31 button image.
>
> 3) And actually, more than the red brick, if I were TLG, I'd be concerned
> about the confusing use of the phrase "LEGO Maniac's Search," which
> sounds like a TLG-sponsored site (which it isn't). However, Patrick has
> been careful to precede "LEGO Maniacs' Search" with the name
> "ADEQUATE.com" in the upper-left corner of the search page and most other
> pages. This helps cue the viewer in quickly that the site is unofficial.
>
> So if I were a newbie online and I visited Patrick's search page, I wouldn't
> think it was an official LEGO site. (Although I might if I saw the red
> brick button before I clicked it.)
Personally I didn't think twice about the Adequate.com red brick on the
button. 1) I don't see it around that often and 2) to me the red 2x2
doesn't represent TLG (but to some it may).
> OTOH, if I were a newbie and I visited the www.ldraw.org homepage, I'd
> probably assume (incorrectly, of course) that the site was devoted to some
> LEGO-produced CAD program called LDraw -- especially with that beautiful
> 6982 image and keywords like "Contact Us." Now obviously, if I take a few
> moments to actually read the text, I'll see that this first impression is
> false -- but the homepage is *so* well done that I'd really be confused for
> a bit.
Thanks :) Uhm, the 6982 was intended to be a temporary thing until we
could get the model of the month thing cycling. Not a lot of work, but the
subject kinda died.
> If some short phrase (one designed to wipe out *any* possibility of
> confusion) were inserted at the very top of the www.ldraw.org homepage,
> that would really help, I think!
Could you define very top? Would right under the MLCad article do??
-Tim Courtney
ldraw.org Project Coordinator
http://www.ldraw.org
http://www.zacktron.com
AIM: timcourtne
ICQ: 23951114
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