Re: [wgo] Skin work

[Máirín Duffy <duffy redhat com>]

Joachim wrote:
> On 11/10/06, Lee Tambiah <l_tambiah linuxmail org> wrote:
> > * The GNOME logo needs to fill the General Nav bar to the primary nav 
> > bar.
> > A nice large foot! Emphasis GNOME.

> We want the General Nav Bar to appear on all gnome sites. That means it 
> must
> be able to slot above whatever design they have -- and there is a fair
> amount of variance.
> We want the General Nav Bar to have a link back to www.gnome.org, and that
> link will be the GNOME logo.
>
> If the large GNOME logo is that link back to www.gnome.org, then there is a
> problem, as it's not a part of the General Nav Bar.

I also have concerns about making the GNOME logo overlap the bar as well 
as the whitespace in the upper left corner.

First issue is that I'm trying to develop a consistent GNOME branding 
scheme, and thus far (such as in the business card and letterhead 
designs you can see at http://mihmo.livejournal.com/), this look of a 
narrow dark grey line with a lighter grey GNOME logo has kind of come 
out of that. Having the GNOME logo overlap would kind of break this 
brand consistency that's coming about.

Second issue is the same as what Joachim brings up - we want people to 
be able to jump to gnome.org from any part of the site, but each part of 
the site also needs something to identify it right?

For an example of how I think we could do this and still keep the new 
branding style: http://www.taconicdsl.com/

See how the site's got its own logo/identify - it's the Taconic DSL 
page, but the narrow top nav also has a link to the main taconic page?

We could do a little small gnome logo on all sites but the main page. 
These non-main-page sites can also have a logo corresponding to what 
they're about. And on the main page just have the large GNOME logo.

~m