[Design] Banners on the Front Page

[Alex Barth]

Harry, there's a new pull request now with a resized and slightly touched
up Birmingham ad, showing Birmingham and San Francisco randomly with a
50/50 % split. 50 percent of visitors will see a SOTM Birmingham ad, vs 50
% of visitors will see a SOTM US San Francisco ad:
https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/268


On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk> wrote:

> I've designed a slightly smaller SOTM Birmingham banner (165 x 116)
> http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/temp/sotm-birmingham.png
>
>
> I suggest we put it on the site and display it
>
> ...or display the SOTM US one if rand<0.4  (40% of the time. Decided on
> page load)
>
> This is the SOTMUS one:
>
> https://github.com/samanpwbb/openstreetmap-website/blob/1781f56180fe6597d4f1808734f71b470a227bc1/app/assets/images/sotm-us-ad.png
>
> Harry
>
>
> > 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
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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?)
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Harry
>
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