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@fh-swf.dewrote:
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.comhttp://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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