Hi Steve, Stephen Lau wrote: > Hrm, it's a bit random. The bubbles look good, but I'm not sure what > the white box (file?) or arrow are meant to convey.
The arrow is meant to set the expectation that you will be taken to an external site when you click it. > Plus it seems weird that there is a huge prominent CD icon there that > isn't ... well, the icon for getting a free CD. > > What about changing the Download icon I was concerned about changing a well-known icon. The Download icon is the most clicked thing on the home page, so I hesitated to change it and focused on creating something that wouldn't cause confusion with it. > to something like a downwards arrow in a circle (which is about as > canonical as I can think of for a download icon), and then change the > free CD icon to something like the current CD icon with an envelope > overlaid on it? or maybe the CD sticking out of an envelope? This is an interesting idea, this would make our icon 'story' a bit more consistent with opensolaris.com. But, it also means changing three icons, (one changed, one removed, one new) which also seems like overkill... Thanks, Michelle > > cheers, > steve > > michelle olson wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've posted a new bubbles icon for the free CD offer in the >> Sun-sponsored links section of the home page with intent to promote it >> to the upper-right navigation bar. >> >> http://opensolaris.org >> >> Let me know what you think. >> >> We'll get this staged in the nav. bar next week on stage.opensolaris.org >> so we can see it next to the other icons. To see it against white >> background, go to: >> >> http://opensolaris.org/os/freeCD.png >> >> Thanks, >> Michelle >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> website-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> > > _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
