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Offline abacus

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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #40 on: 02/16/2006 10:16 am »
I'd be interested to know how many clicks you get out of Google Adsense.  It is reasonably prominent on the news pages, but despite being in the same place on the forum pages, gets lost in the navigation menus.  I don't know if you have a breakdown, but I would guess you get a higher percentage clicks on the news pages than on the forums.

Also, the Google Adsense context sensitive stuff really doesn't serve very relevant ads (ie Thomson Local's - Contact Space Station!)

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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #41 on: 02/16/2006 10:37 am »
Wow, loving all the logos ... think my favourite is DF's logo15k.jpg.
I've had a little play around and post a few up later when i get back home :)

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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #42 on: 02/16/2006 11:03 am »
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abacus - 16/2/2006  11:16 AM

I'd be interested to know how many clicks you get out of Google Adsense.  It is reasonably prominent on the news pages, but despite being in the same place on the forum pages, gets lost in the navigation menus.  I don't know if you have a breakdown, but I would guess you get a higher percentage clicks on the news pages than on the forums.

Also, the Google Adsense context sensitive stuff really doesn't serve very relevant ads (ie Thomson Local's - Contact Space Station!)

Yeah, there's always some amusement with the way it picks up key words. Everyone knows you need to go through the Yellow Pages to contact the ISS ;)

Google doesn't like you giving too many details away, so I'll just show page impressions and clicks.

01 February 2006  40,909  12  
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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #43 on: 02/16/2006 11:31 am »
Hello again :)

Looking at the previous posts I had an idea: how about an animated gif as active link image to the forums (to be placed somewhere on the site's front page)?

(I kind of agree that the site's logo is probably better to be one of the other proposals, do not know :) )

Back to the forum link: below is a not yet 100% optimised animated gif (16.1KB, for white backgrounds) but that gives already a rough idea of what I mean.

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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #44 on: 02/16/2006 11:39 am »
Impressive page impressions!

I love that forum logo. The tribute to STS-107 is excellent.
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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #45 on: 02/16/2006 11:49 am »
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Back to the forum link: below is a not yet 100% optimised animated gif (16.1KB, for white backgrounds) but that gives already a rough idea of what I mean.
Wonderful!

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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #46 on: 02/16/2006 11:53 am »
Nice logo, I like the rounded corners.
It would be nice to see how the new logos would integrate into a new, clean navigation bar and theme.
I could see a great black and white theme with a combination of drop shadows and rear lighting based on some of discovery_fan's logos.  But I should really load up the gimp and put some time where my mouth is....


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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #47 on: 02/16/2006 12:01 pm »
Brilliant, António. Love it.

Braddock - yeah, problem is you're heading into programming and that's out of my league.

I suggest we go with these two improvements and ease the site into a potential improvement mode. I would like to ensure Matt Shipley (head of the web company that built the site) has input when he's back at the weekend, as he's put a load of time into this site, a lot of it for free. I've never met two web programmers that agree, but this site - and forum - are coping with some serious numbers.

But of course, if there's improvements that work, I'll take it. The site was always a foundation for being taken up levels as we go.
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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #48 on: 02/16/2006 01:03 pm »
Looking great, really nice gifs!

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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #49 on: 02/16/2006 02:01 pm »
A bit of advice. If you look at modern corporate logos most of them are very simple. There is a reason for this, logos should stand out when they are seen out of the corner of your eye, you should be able to quickly recognize it even when you just glimpse it while focusing on other areas of the page. The proposals here are very nice artwork and they would work good for other purposes, but the best way to go with a logo is KISS.

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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #50 on: 02/16/2006 02:13 pm »
And talking about logos, banners, directing people to forums and a few little visual updates to the site: I will "soon" upload a composed image showing:

a) Discovery Fan's simplest logo (just text)
b) My "logo" as a forum banner / link
c) nasapsaceflight.com site with a few (very minor) mods

Like was saying, that image will show, in a quickly made example, how a), b) and c) could work together and contribute for a slightly more visual appealing site... stay tuned ;)

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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #51 on: 02/16/2006 02:20 pm »
Damn, this is exciting! :)
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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #52 on: 02/16/2006 02:41 pm »
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Chris Bergin - 16/2/2006  3:20 PM

Damn, this is exciting! :)

Ok, here it goes :)

Sorry about the size (150KB, was a little anxious to show it and have not resized / compressed the picture). As can be seen, I guess this would not need any major re-designs, just some colour changes and items changing places. By the way: each news tittle would probably look better if in a darker grey color (same valid for the main text).

António


Edit1: ooops, the file must be less than 100KB... I will be right back :D

Edit2: ok, further compressed the image (less than 100KB)... The colours are not quite the same and the image quality went down... If someone wants I can temporarily upload (on my web space) the original jpg. Anyway, the current one gives a good idea of what I wrote above ;)
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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #53 on: 02/16/2006 03:01 pm »
That is nice, but a bit black, or am I not thinking correctly?

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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #54 on: 02/16/2006 03:12 pm »
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STS Tony - 16/2/2006  4:01 PM

That is nice, but a bit black, or am I not thinking correctly?

Hehe, the idea was to play with DF's text logo, current site items and I also like the black/white/grey/dark blue colour game (see my site). The black also makes the coloured and animated forum banner/link jump into the visitor's eyes :).

Anyway, just a suggestion (of many possible) for a quick to implement site modification (note: I do not know if it would really be as quick as that).

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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #55 on: 02/16/2006 03:34 pm »
I have to say I like the B&W logo. Simple and memorable.
I like to link to the Fora also, very nice.

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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #56 on: 02/16/2006 04:08 pm »
I love the black and white logo, very striking ... love the whole page that simcosmos did too, would like to see the left hand side menus and maybe the logo in dark blue - would match the main stories title. I do like the black but i think it could be abit overpowering.

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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #57 on: 02/16/2006 04:34 pm »
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JustAnotherStar - 16/2/2006  5:08 PM

I love the black and white logo, very striking ... love the whole page that simcosmos did too, would like to see the left hand side menus and maybe the logo in dark blue - would match the main stories title. I do like the black but i think it could be abit overpowering.

A few minutes ago I made another quick test and yes, in the end, it might be easier for the eyes if, still maintaining Discovery Fan's black / white text type of logo and the quick mod/test layout from the picture above, to use, for the side boxes, the same blue that is currently used on the site (instead of black)

The black looks ok but, depending of the person, it might be less "universal" than the dark blue :)

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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #58 on: 02/16/2006 04:46 pm »
you mean like the example below?

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RE: New NASASpaceflight.com Logo Competition
« Reply #59 on: 02/16/2006 04:51 pm »
Yup, i mean like that  :)

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