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Re: No logo fest, please. (was: New homepage for LUGNET)
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general
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Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:28:04 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Eric Brok wrote:

   Hower great looking each (community) logo can be, twenty graphically unrelated logo’s on one page make an incoherent design and are not helpful to the first-time visitor.

I agree. This is one of the problems with the “busy”-ness that you mentioned in Jeff’s suggestion: http://news.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=11334

One thing I really like from Jeff’s suggested graphic is the use of 1x6 bricks as link buttons. I know, this is also used elsewhere, e.g.: http://www.brickfest.com/index2.htm But it seems so obviously well-suited, both graphically and aesthetically. It’s like the community is made up of all these different bricks stacked together. It’s also easy to add new links without changing the design--just add another brick to the stack.


Bruce



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  Re: No logo fest, please. (was: New homepage for LUGNET)
 
(...) Based on experience, it'd be nice if the words could be made out of actual displayed on top of the brick image (which could be made in multiple parts to accomplish this easier), both to avoid contributing to the Pictures of Text plague and (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)

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  No logo fest, please. (was: New homepage for LUGNET)
 
What I like best about Suzanne's design over some of the other proposed here, is the absence of a visual logo fest. Hower great looking each (community) logo can be, twenty graphically unrelated logo's on one page make an incoherent design and are (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)

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