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From: Connie Snyder <>
Subject: Re: [STATE-COORD] Comments on banner
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:01:15 -0600


Thank you, Tina.

Although I don't especially like the idea of the banners in the first place, there's another way to look at them. Make it a lot better looking as far as the the USGenWeb Project part of it, perhaps with a very small logo or at least some color and decent font. The one that you show looks rather like some of my first attempts at graphic design and doesn't sit well with me at all. The 'Land of Free Genealogy needs to be rethought. It doesn't make a lot of sense. Why not use the statement on the main national page? "Keeping Internet Genealogy Free"

That way we would have our own 'branding' of the page as a part of the national project. How many times have we heard that the project needs to be 'prominently displayed' on state and county pages?? This would solve that at one go for any of them on Rootsweb....

Connie
NEGenWeb Project SC

>
> From: "Tina S. Vickery" <>
> Date: 2008/03/05 Wed PM 06:59:59 CST
> To: <>
> Subject: Re: [STATE-COORD] Comments on banner
>
> Margie,
>
> The Board has struggled for many months with how to deal
> with this. A mainstay of the USGenWeb Project is that
> State/County and Special Project sites may be hosted on a
> server on one's choice. The USGenWeb Project is very
> unique in that the majority of our sites are hosted on
> Rootsweb.
>
> If I may give *my* opinion, these banners are no different
> than banners Geocities, Tripod, AOL or other hosting
> servers offer up, <sigh>, but a fact. The fact that
> TGN/RW has worked with us to provide a custom USGenWeb
> Project banner is testament to our long and established
> relationship. The Board and I have, and are continuing to
> explore options for the National Pages, but I must
> reiterate a mainstay of the USGenWeb Project is that
> State/County and Special Project sites may be hosted on a
> server on one's choice.
>
> Tina

> >>>>> The banners are viewable here:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://www.usgenweb.com/images/rootswebbanner/default1.jpg [default
> >>>>> one]
> >>>>> http://www.usgenweb.com/images/rootswebbanner/default2.jpg [default
> >>>>> two]
> >>>>> http://www.usgenweb.com/images/rootswebbanner/default3.jpg [default
> >>>>> three]
> >>>>> http://www.usgenweb.com/images/rootswebbanner/custom.jpg [custom to
> >>>>> USGenWeb Project]
> >>>>>
> >>>>> RootsWeb intends to begin the placement of the banners
> >>>>> beginning on or about March 15, 2008. The
> >>>>> generic/freepages banner will be included on the server
> >>>>> side [TGN/RW], and will not require any involvement from
> >>>>> the webmasters. Any USGenWeb Project site that wishes to
> >>>>> have the USGenWeb Project specific banner instead of the
> >>>>> generic/freepages banner will be supplied with code to
> >>>>> insert on their pages in order to cause that banner to
> >>>>> show up when their pages are viewed. The line of code
> >>>>> they will provide us is not a replacement banner. It will
> >>>>> simply include a parameter on the page that the server can
> >>>>> read when rendering the banner that will tell it to render
> >>>>> the customized USGenWeb [Project] banner instead of the
> >>>>> default one.


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