The sidebar version is less offensive than the top banner on my widescreen desktop. The
message and text sizing is also better in the sidebar version
Cheers,
Peter
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From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Samuel
Patton
Sent: Wednesday, 15 November 2017 12:13 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] A fundraising banner we'd like to try in a short test
Hi all, it's Sam from the online fundraising team. I wanted to give you a heads up
about a desktop banner we'd like to test before the official launch of our 'Big
English' fundraising banner campaign on Tuesday, November 28.
TL;DR: A short test of a new banner concept will help us decide if it's worth
iteration and improvement.
Here's a link to the banner:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple?banner=dsk_p1_lg_right10&country=US…
This banner would run against our current best desktop large banner; here's that
link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple?banner=B1718_1101_en6C_dsk_p1_lg_templa…
Undoubtedly, it's an unusual format; that's why we felt it appropriate to give you
a heads up :) We haven't tried a vertical 'banner on the side' in recent
memory, and it'll be useful to see exactly how this type of content performs.
This test would run for 1 to 2 hours, and then we'd evaluate results to see if
it's worth spending any more time on the concept. For now, we're simply hiding the
banner all together below 920px, as at smaller viewports it begins to interfere with site
navigation elements.
If you have thoughts on this design, please share them here. There will be more
opportunities for you to weigh in if this banner variant looks promising enough to keep
testing.
Regards and sincere thanks for all you do.
Sam
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