[IMC-US] banners, and width, and some visioning questions

[john duda]

i agree with bht here. we need as much screen space as possible, the
syndicated wire really needs to expand out.

i like bannerb, i.e.

http://rumpus.rackhost.net/bannerb.png

it would look even better if whoever expands the banner does it such
that the edges of the two images had a bit of gradient fading to black
to make the transition smoother.



i almost have the us-imc syndication back to normal(running off the
contact db) 

when this is done, i will make a faq about getting your imc syndicated.

john





On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:16:48AM -0800, bht wrote:
> the reason i would like to expand the site to the full page width rests
> mostly with the syndicated feature wire.  some rss feeds import the images
> with the features, this is great, it makes the site look very dynamic.
> 
> however, the text next to the image is usually crammed and odd looking, i
> think by expanding the width it would also espand the width of the synd.
> newswire.  if I am wrong about this I will digress and just look to get it
> centered.
> 
> however, i remember from before changing of the page to match the banner
> the synd. newswire was wider.
> 
> also, in the mail that dan has responded too were questions of vision and
> such.  i think that if folks would rather not discuss the vision of the
> site that they have and help to form a common vision for the site, it is
> relatively useless.  so i do ask as nicely as possible that folks respond
> to it.
> 
> and as i stressed before, i would love to hear from the folks that were at
> the allied media conference this summer where we talked about this and the
> site that exists now came from.  i will send another mail in a few
> minutes.
> bht
> 
> ahhh! daniel scott
> > sup yall,
> >
> > remember that if you expand the site you are looking at putting a new
> > stretch of uniform color somewhere in the banner.  I agree the best
> > place to do this would be where the ((i)) meets the image. But even
> > here i think it throws off the balance of the banner, and makes it look
> > a little broken.
> >
> > ex. of two places to expand the banner
> > http://rumpus.rackhost.net/bannera.png
> > http://rumpus.rackhost.net/bannerb.png
> >
> > i think we should center the site and leave the expandable option alone.
> >
> > dan
> > nyc imc
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > On Dec 18, 2004, at 5:49 PM, deva wrote:
> >
> >> I can be a variable width site if the indy (((i))) is separated from
> >> the rest of the banner and the rest justifies right
> >>
> >> adding to the discussion, one thing that stands out to me is that the
> >> majority of content is from a handful of local imc's - proportionally,
> >> there is too much portland stuff, (or conversely, not enough other
> >> stuff)
> >>
> >> one priority would be to get other local imc's syndicated
> >>
> >> cheers
> >> deva
> >>
> >>
> >> On Dec 18, 2004, at 9:31 AM, Ana wrote:
> >>
> >>> also, i know there are folks who have argued that we should keep the
> >>> site
> >>> this width becuase it is friendlier to folks with small screens. they
> >>> dont
> >>> have to scroll across to read the site. one solution was to just
> >>> center the
> >>> site so that there is a white border on both sides, not just the
> >>> right side.
> >>> would that improve it for you enough, bht?
> >>>
> >>> i think it would be great if we could have an irc meeting soon. i
> >>> will be at
> >>> a family reunion from wedensday to wednesday but could do it before
> >>> that or
> >>> in 2005. thoughts?
> >>>
> >>> peace
> >>> ana
> >>> nycimc
> >>
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