[tei-council] TEI badges, first look

Gabriel Bodard gabriel.bodard at kcl.ac.uk
Mon Dec 22 10:40:14 EST 2008


I've stuck one (rather clunkily) in http://ircyr.kcl.ac.uk/ (whence it 
will no doubt disappear next time the site is updated, but it's there 
for a few days at least).

G

David Sewell a écrit :
> I have put one of the "A" samples here:
> 
> http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/index.php?page_id=Home
> 
> It looks okay, although I think either the text of "HOST" should be
> larger, or the width of the button smaller (the designer intentionally
> kept the widths fixed, cf. http://people.virginia.edu/~bc4m/tei/ , but
> that's not a necessity).
> 
> Gaby, could you create another example or two as offered?
> 
> David
> 
> On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Gabriel Bodard wrote:
> 
>> FWIW I like Design A almost infinitely more than Design B.
>>
>> The "XML" and "P5" optional extras do make the buttons a bit long, but
>> they *are* optional. We could even try these out on some non TEI-hosted
>> (but TEI-powered) pages to see how they look in isolation, as it were. I
>> can probably provide an example or two.
>>
>> G
>>
>>
>> Daniel Paul O'Donnell a écrit :
>>> Yes. I think that would be more trouble than could be caused by trying
>>> them out on a live site with a link pointing perhaps to a page saying
>>> that they are trials?
>>>
>>> Or we could make up an obviously trial page using text from lipsum.com
>>> and stick them on the end of that.
>>>
>>> On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 15:24 -0500, David Sewell wrote:
>>>> We could add them to the development version of the TEI website, i.e.
>>>> the non-live version under OpenCMS, but how many of us would actually be
>>>> able to see them? It would require login access to OpenCMS.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Daniel Paul O'Donnell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I prefer the A set, myself, and like the way the TEI logo runs over the
>>>>> button edge: I'd almost emphasis that slightly more.
>>>>>
>>>>> My only concern is how long the ones with additional text are getting,
>>>>> although I like the combination of white and blue.
>>>>>
>>>>> Trying them out on a page sounds like a good idea.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 13:49 -0500, David Sewell wrote:
>>>>>> Please take a look at:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://people.virginia.edu/~bc4m/tei/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do we want to try adding both designs to an existing website to see how
>>>>>> they look? Or is there a strong preference for Design A vs. B?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> David
>>>>>>
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