I know it wasn't intentional, Teri, what with email overload tonight but you are referring to Holly's post. Joe Teri Pettit wrote: > > >At 09:02 PM 6/10/00 -0400, Garnett J.(Joe) Zsedeny wrote: > > > >Only comment I have is that I don't see why it has to be the small logo, > >appropriate usage of the USGenWeb logo is okay by me whichever size. > > The idea was just that a smaller logo looks more like a link button. > Large logos tend to look too much like identifying labels for the > page they are on. (What I would most like to see is for us to have > an official link graphic, that looks basically like the regular > logo but has the word "Visit" or "Go to" on it. You don't usually > say "Visit" or "Go to" somewhere if you're already there. Then it > could be any size; it could take up half a page if you wanted. > > I'm pretty sure that Tim's main reason for telling USGenNet not to > use our logo was that their original index page looked too much like > it was the official USGenWeb Project state links page. Now it doesn't > have that problem, now it instead looks like it is a state links page > for some hypothetical other project named "the Nonprofit USGenWeb > Project." > > I suppose with enough identifying text, such as "Click on this logo > to go to the home page of The USGenWeb Project", a full-size logo > could be OK on a non-USGenWeb page. > > What we are hoping to see is a page that clearly refers to the real > USGenWeb Project, and yet is recognizable as not being an official > USGenWeb Project page. It is just a page of links, with special > emphasis given to the states that are stored on USGenNet, similar > to the link pages that Rootsweb has that give special emphasis > to USGenWeb pages stored on Rootsweb. > > -- Teri -- Zsedeny Genealogy - http://www.rootsweb.com/~jzed/home.htm NDGenWeb Archives - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nd/ndfiles.htm Pembina County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndpembin/pembina.htm Ramsey County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndramsey/ramsey.htm