RHM widget on fedoraproject.org

[Paul W. Frields]

Summary at bottom, keep reading --

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 22:26 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> > Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > We have a banner system already, I say lets use it.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > If it's going to be that size, it should just go into banner rotation. Having
> > two banners on the left side like that makes the left heavier than it was ever
> > meant to be.
> >
> > Like Mike said, I think there are a lot of different visions for the site. So
> > here's mine. :) I had always intended for there to be a larger main banner
> > area in the middle, for promotion of Fedora-only things (much like the
> > gnome.org main banner.) We didn't actually use such a design yet because of
> > bandwidth restrictions at release times but we now do have the bandwidth to do
> > this so I'm hoping we'll have banners of a larger size to promote
> > Fedora-related content there soon. (example, mockup:
> > http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h58/mairinduffy/bigfedorabanner.png)
> >
> > I think the smaller banner space that we currently use now would likely be
> > more appropriate for the RHM banner.
> >
> 
> Yeah, we've got a few different sites.  I think that all of our 'sub'
> project sites should have the smaller banner system while the fedora-main
> site should be different or...  I don't know, more grand but still simple?
> I'm not sure how else to say it.
> 
> The current fp.o/ site was initially designed to be simple and light on
> the network, thats no longer the case so the fedoraproject.org/ site is
> ripe for a re-design or re-visioning.  Just going to take someone with the
> time, guts and skill to do it.  Its probably too late for the F9 release
> as the string freeze is tomorrow :)  But we can certainly re-think it
> shortly after and get it in shape for F10.

Jessica Gerber isn't on this mailing list, so I'm putting her on Cc: to
keep her in the loop.  Jess, it sounds like people will be happy to put
your banners in rotation at the top of the page in the same bucket as
the other ones.  To whom can Jess send her banners for inclusion?

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