On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Lodewijk <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can see that confusing people is not what we should be aiming for :) > Would it help sooth your mind when there is a clear distinction between > content and banner, even if the look and feel is the same? (I can imagine > that you could accomplish this by doing the banner at full site width, for > example) > I suspect making a clear distinction and making it use the same look and feel are opposing goals. But I'm not a very good designer, maybe you can make it work somehow. > but at the same time I recognize that community > members have been asking Fundraising to make the banners less 'in your > face' and 'ad-like' (which is by far the obvious way to make sure nobody > gets confused about the seperation). > My gut feeling there is that those people will consider a full-page ad as being "in your face" whether it looks like a traditional banner or like content. Personally, I'd rather have clearly demarcated ads. When ads try to blend into content too well, I feel like the advertiser is trying to trick me. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
