[Design] Banners on the Front Page
Steve Coast
steve at asklater.com
Thu May 9 15:49:52 UTC 2013
Can you please include OSM PLUS?
Thanks
Steve
On May 9, 2013, at 9:45 AM, Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> wrote:
> Great, working with Saman here on an update to the open pull request [1]. We'll do a carousel where we show Birmingham's ad [2] first, then SanFran [3], alternating every 5s in as unobtrusive a way as possible. Both linked to their corresponding conference sites. I hope this works for everyone. Update + screenshot coming in a bit.
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> [1] https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/217
> [2] http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/temp/comeToSotm.png
> [3] https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/108094/260977/f462aaa4-8ce3-11e2-90ff-32076e9acd25.png
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> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk> wrote:
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> > I would go with the suggestion that already has been made by having an "upcoming events" page on
> > the wiki and have a link to that on the main page. Maybe someone could make some widget for it that
> > rotates the upcoming events (and dates) and possibly filtered/prioritized by geoip.
> > And have a banner for official events organized by the OSMF.
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> > Henk
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> We already have a "Current events" page on the wiki. Could link to that. But then we *could* link to a lot of things.
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> Brian emailed me with an image previously. I'll share it here:
> http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/temp/comeToSotm.png
> That's actually quite massive. 165x165 pixels
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> Previous banners were smaller e.g. 165x116 for this SOTM PDX one. I think the tokyo one (can't find it in github just now) was shorter than it was wide too.
> https://github.com/mvexel/openstreetmap-website/blob/cd280aeac2874305b2d65871c56e2f02b1f2e7ef/app/assets/images/sotmpdx.png
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> A taller image shoves things further down the page. "Make a donation", and indeed the bottom of the banner image itself will start to fall off the bottom of the screen for non-logged in users. I'd suggest that should be redesigned a bit less tall in line with previous banners. (agree / disagree anyone?)
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> But we could consider a banner at size 165x50 similar to this SOTM scotland banner, or shorter even :
> https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/749caaff73596e284c39ce7d0a840f8a0a50687d/app/assets/images/sotmscotland.png
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> That's if we wanted to place both banners, SOTM black bull and SOTM US, on top of eachother. So in this case we'd need the SOTM US image a bit smaller too. This one:
> https://github.com/samanpwbb/openstreetmap-website/blob/1781f56180fe6597d4f1808734f71b470a227bc1/app/assets/images/sotm-us-ad.png
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> Does anyone want to prototype that?
> ...or it's probably quite trivial to put in a bit of randomised flipping code, if we just go with both images at a larger size.
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