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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.)
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.
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!
--Todd
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