I also forgot to mention those annoyingly ugly 'Credit Card'/PayPal buttons with the double borders. I suggest making the border 1px solid and then reduce the border radius to 5px. User:Mono
> From: userm...@outlook.com > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 19:36:31 -0700 > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner obscuring site interface > > Related: There are some issues with the design of these banners, especially > the floaty thing.Why are you using a <table> element? It's really wrong for > this kind of thing. Also, please commit to just one color for the floater - > the highlighting thing doesn't make sense in that space. (See a possible > solution, if the icon was black with a yellow i, at > http://awesomescreenshot.com/0d622k4fb2). Furthermore, that shadow is hideous > - it should be blurred out some more or just eliminated - it adds little > (without shadow: http://awesomescreenshot.com/0e622k4k3c, blurred shadow: > http://awesomescreenshot.com/06d22k4s6f). This a) looks better and b) would > probably increase conversions since it's all around brighter (but in a > better-looking way). At the top, it's best looking to eliminate the shadow on > the right side which looks unbalanced and increase the blur (like box-shadow: > 0px 5px 10px #aaa;). See http://awesomescreenshot.com/01022k566a. I highly > suggest you adopt these changes. > Thanks,User:Mono > > > Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 11:09:59 -0800 > > From: pcoo...@wikimedia.org > > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner obscuring site interface > > > > Love it! Looks like there's more than one banner too: > > http://imgs.xkcd.com/store_news/store_gd_g1_QG5Z.png > > > > -- > > Peter Coombe > > Fundraising Production Coordinator > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > > > On 8 December 2013 19:52, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > > > > > Largely unrelated: it looks like xkcd (<http://xkcd.com>) has spoofed the > > > "DEAR WIKIPEDIA READERS" donation banner as part of its store campaign: > > > <http://imgs.xkcd.com/store_news/store_gd_d5_FyaR.png>. :-) > > > > > > MZMcBride > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>