Sam, Thanks for the heads up! Is there any measure of the negative impact of a banner (in distraction, self-reported annoyance, abandoned sessions), separate from its fundraising impact? I imagine some very noticeable banners will have high positives as well as negatives; then the question would be what tradeoffs to make.
On side banners: have there been recent experiments with a thin side banner in the l.h.s. column?
=== For this test (happen to be on a Win machine today): Win/IE has render troubles; covers some of the r.h.s. of the page. Win/Chrome doesn't show it at all for me; even when turning off all extensions. The corner 'x' is hard to see. text in some boxes is cut off ('Other'). It's not clear how 'Other' works. Generally: looks busy. Recurring issues: Loading after the rest of the page can be confusing on slow connections. Underlined text in the quote that isn't a hyperlink is confusing (and could link to appropriate detail).
Warmly, SJ
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Samuel Patton spatton@wikimedia.org wrote:
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&force=1
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_template&force=1&country=US
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.
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