[tei-council] TEI badges, first look

[Daniel Paul O'Donnell]

Your point about the width and centring is good and struck me two. And
I'm concerned that the Powered by TEI P5 type are both too long and not
very flexible (TITE wouldn't fit there, for example, and I really think
that is going to be an important one).

I wonder the following:

1) If the host-type badges couldn't be different--is there a reason, for
example, why the member/host/subscriber ones couldn't be a square? They
have a different function from the "powered by" badges. Maybe a slightly
taller than wider rectangle that kept the same color scheme and did
something like this:

< TEI >

 Host 

Where the TEI bit was on a blue background and the host bit on white.

2. Is there a reason the "powered by TEI P5" type couldn't be the same
width as the regular "powered by," but taller with the white block
underneath the blue instead of at the right?

I must say that the one on Gabby's site looks good.

-dan 


On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 09:40 -0500, David Sewell wrote:
> 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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