[osol-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Community graphics for home page

[Jim Grisanzio]

Sara Dornsife wrote On 08/01/06 06:46,:
> We've concluded our first year. We've celebrated our anniversary. Now we 
> need a new graphic banner for the opensolaris.org website.


I'm all for graphics, believe me, but since the site has been without a 
front page graphic for about a week now, it's growing on me. I like it. 
It's nice and clean, actually.

In general, the site is light on graphics, so have we considered a front 
page design with no major front page graphic at all (aside from the 
wordmark and the little nav icons, of course)? Also, do we have any data 
about how a front page graphic affects page views and community 
involvement? In other words, why change it? I understand the change with 
the anniversary, of course, but why not go back to Chandan's original 
graphic?


> Anyone who 
> would like to contribute artwork can by sending it in email to website 
> DASH discuss AT opensolaris.org. You can see what we've used so far at 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/homepagegraphics/ in 
> case you missed them.


Thank you for making it an open process.


> All submissions must be in by midnight PT Monday August 7th. Selections 
> will be made by by the OpenSolaris web team on Tuesday August 8th and 
> posted by Wednesday August 9th.


Have we specified how the web team will be making the selections?


> The only things that we request of any submission:
> - is original artwork to avoid any possible copyright issues
> - contains the OpenSolaris wordmark colors (Orange: #E76F00, Blue: #5382A1)
> - is no bigger than: 500x 200 pixels
> - does NOT contain the OpenSolaris wordmark
> - is in PNG, GIF or JPG formats
> 
> New artwork will be up from 6 - 12 months or, if we have a lot of 
> submissions, we can circulate them.
> 
> Sara

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