Hi Katharina, thank you very very much. Your mail sounds like music to my
ear when you said "leave the banner as it is", LOL. I am no artist and when
I put in some graphics before, I was condemned left right center by
reviewers at Link Referral. So I will keep it as it is.
Ahhhh, the small difference... okay, I will look into that. Actually, the
two layouts are slightly different because they are of different versions.
Being toying with it as you can see that
Dummipedia.org has the panel on the
right while
Dummipedia.com has the panel on the left. I change the panel to
the right because I read somewhere that this is good for SEO, although
personally, I still prefer the panel on the left as I am so used to
Wikipedia. Yes, contributed 2 years full time to Malay Wikipedia and from
there, graduated into starting one Malay website, followed by several
English websites.
You mentioned: "... perhaps someday you'd want visitors to contribute or at
least visit those pages as well." Hahaha... I have been a lone ranger for 2
years and although the website is open for registration, there are no
voluntary contributors except a few friends that I bribed with one thing or
another, LOL. But it is okay... so used to it now that I wonder whether I
will now feel uneasy if I suddenly see one unexpected contribution.
PM Poon
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Katharina Wolkwitz <wolkwitz(a)fh-swf.de>wrote;wrote:
Hi Poon,
I think you should leave the banner as it is, especially as you're already
using
quite a lot of colour on your webside.
I think looking plain instead of ostentatious/overcharged (I'm not sure how
to
phrase that right) is very much preferable for logos.
Your logo is clear and catchy as it is and very well adaptable to different
colour-schemes without loosing it's effectiveness.
Ekompute .info schrieb am 14.08.2009 09:20:
Hi Katharina, thank you very much for your kind
comments. I was not
thinking
of blowing up the banner to fill the whole
screen. I think this size for
the
logo is about right, or maybe add another 10%.
You should try to keep all the logos the same size or at least have a
distinct
size graduation.
At the moment, when one switches between
http://dummipedia.org and
http://dummipedia.com the size-difference is too small to feel/look
intentional.
It rather seems like an unintended mistake.
There is a German saying "Gewollt und nicht gekonnt" (for which I've just
found
the one translation "Close, but no cigar") that puts that kind of
feeling/look
in one sentence.
If you're using different (font-)sizes, they have to be different enough to
look
deliberate.
I was thinking of having a colored banner so that
it doesn't look
too plain. Maybe adding some graphics on the right. I have 8 Mediawiki
sites using this same skin
that I tried to develop with the help of this forum. Sometimes just
changing
the color as in
Dummipedia.com<http://dummipedia.com/Gone_with_the_Wind_%28film%29>
.
Yes, regarding the menu bar. I agree with you that the red is hard to
read.
But as all my websites have no other contributors
except yours truly, I
didn't thought it was a problem. On the contrary, those are empty pages
so
if visitors do not see the words, it may actually
turn out to be better
for
them, LOL.
You're rigth both times,
but perhaps someday you'd want visitors to
contribute
or at least visit those pages as well... ;-)
Good luck!
Katharina
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