[osol-mktg] Banner ad is ready

[Sara Dornsife]

This banner is designed specifically for the Sun web site. I mentioned 
that they weren't very dynamic. I'm pretty excited that a banner ad 
written by this community is running on the Sun web site. But I will 
give you that it doesn't actually jump out and bite you in the butt and 
get you all jazzed about the project.

We have the opportunity to swap out the one we have as well, so we can 
change it up to one about the stats. It will have a similar look and 
feel though.

We could make our own. With pink hair. I would have to get someone to 
sign off on something that includes the wordmark or TM, but if the ad is 
good (and you know it will be good) we should be able to get it pushed 
through. We have some pretty talented designers in this group.

While we are speaking of our talented designers, I have also put a 
request in with website discuss to see if we can redesign the home page 
after the anniversary. But we'll talk about that next.
Sara


Ben Rockwood wrote:
> Glynn Foster wrote:
> 
>> Hey,
>>
>> Sara Dornsife wrote:
>>
>>> You can see it and download it at:
>>> http://www.sun.com/cgi-bin/sun/webdesign/index_banners.cgi?item=awareness:_opensolaris_one_year_anniversary 
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Okay, so I hate to be a wet fish, but this doesn't really turn me on 
>> very much. It doesn't even make me feel like I should be a proud 
>> member of the OpenSolaris community.
>>
>> It's not just the slogan, it's just the style of the whole thing. 
>> There's no sex appeal, there's no community vibe other than Dennis' 
>> little verse. Seems like a stuffy corporate view rather than ZANY 
>> COMMUNITY ROCK AND ROLL ;)
> 
> I know its late in the game (I'm sorry) but I agree. You need girls with 
> pink hair. :)
> 
> Personally, I still prefer the banner that would have listed the number 
> of users, contributions, lines of code, etc.  That really said 
> something.  If I saw this banner on a website I wouldn't notice it at all.
> 
> benr.
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