NeoWayland NetWork banners and badge ~ teknologi

Posted on Tue - September 19, 2006

NeoWayland NetWork banners and badge

Yep, I've been tweaking again. The banners that I was using at neowayland.net didn't have the correct addresses and were a little busy. They also didn't match anything else on the site. It was time to get to work.

The old banners look good, but they have too many elements that distract. And I think the background was based on a Microsoft background. Reason enough to upgrade. Headers first.

As you can see, the original is just way too big and in your face. A few feet away from your computer and it just sort of all blends in. I broke a whole bunch of design rules on it, some deliberately, but the big problem is that the background is just too busy.

In the second one, the letters just draw your attention. The background, while still textured, is neutral enough not to distract. Since the pentagram isn't one of my favorite symbols anyway, I dropped it. That in turn let me play with a less regimented and symmetrical layout. I wish I could claim credit for the way that the "W" in network aligns with the "W" and "y" from the NeoWayland above, but that was a happy accident. I did tweak the spacing between the two words to capitalize on it though. The green is actually a jpg of green smoke that I always thought looked more like fine green marble. The light letters in the last line aren't actually white, they are another jpg, this time of a blue cloud.

Here are the general purpose banners. The original is a nice variation of my original header, but still too big for most purposes. And once again it is busy, busy, busy.

In the second version, I tried a compromise between my new header and the NetWork badge I had been using on my blogs for the last few months. I did pretty good I think. The triskelion replacing the "o," that was deliberate. I've done that before a few times. And it is more of a standard size rather than just "what looks good" to the ole Eyeball Mark I.

Of course, there are just enough differences so it no longer ties in with the NeoWayland NetWork badge was using. The top is the one I was using, the next is the new version.

Part of the NeoWayland NetWork

Not that different, except the new one is more of a standard size and now uses the green smoke jpg to tie it to the two banners.

=>