Re: [libreoffice-website] Promoting the LibreOffice Conference on the LibreOffice website

Hi Stefan, *,

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Stefan Weigel
<stefan.weigel@bildungskreis.org> wrote:
> Am 06.09.2012 21:58, schrieb Stefan Weigel:
>
> Meanwhile Alexander Wilms has proposed these versions of the
> conference logo as a banner.
>
> http://ubuntuone.com/1mJnKsiNeq5YKiNHBEDcSC

(I'd prefer ready-to-use png instaed of svg btw, at least if text is involved)

> Do you website guys think, you can use this?

I don't think they are balanced. The first one shrinks the LibreOffice
Logo (don't like that), the second one tries to put both on the same
baseline (it cuts the date), but kind of fails at that - the Berlin
part is shifted upwards, the third one centers the LibreOffice logo
with the total height of the Berlin one, and again this looks very
unbalanced.

So personally I wouldn't use any of those as-is. The one with the same
baseline is the only one that I can imagine to be used when the Berlin
part is shifted down a little so that the bottom line matches that of
the LibreOffice Logo (the text portion of it).

Said & done. (But that doesn't mean there is no room for improvement,
if someone has a nicer looking one, please go ahead).

Better to have a "meh, not perfect" link to the conference up now than
to wait until one week before the conference :-)

> Basically, it´s just the conference logo with no specific
> promotional message, though. The intention is to draw the attention
> of our website visitors to the LibreOffice conference and to
> motivate them to register for the conference. IMO, this can be done
> by a banner, but it also can be done by some other eye-catchy
> message on the homepages of the websites as well.
>
> So why not just accentuate a text like:
>
> "Come to Berlin and meet the LibreOffice Community at LibreOffice
> Conference October 17-19, 2012."

Because this is text, and text has to be translated (at least to a
bigger extent than a logo) - and with text you have the problem of
different fonts installed, i.e. different look/layout. Positioning
real text next to a logo and make it look nice is harder than putting
an image with prerendered text on the site.

ciao
Christian

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