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
> > >
> > >
> > >
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