[LAU] quicktoots logo

[Patrick Shirkey]

Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 11:03 +0000, Gordon J. C. Pearce MM3YEQ wrote:
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>> On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 16:27 +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
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>>>> To be honest. Those animated logo's don't do any good. Very irritating 
>>>> and disturbing, not a good idea IMHO
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>>> I appreciate your sentiment but the final version is definitely gonna be 
>>> animated.
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>> 1997 called, and said they wanted their dreadful design ideas back.
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>> I wouldn't consider contributing anything to the site with that bloody
>> awful thing flashing away like that.  It's just about the worst bit of
>> design I've seen.
>>
>> Gordon
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> Same here. I have a hard time to take someone who suggests an animated
> logo for such a site seriously at all. In fact, I don't.
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Well, the quicktoots site is not about being serious. It's about giving 
people who are not serious users an idea about the possibilities 
available to them. It's meant to be the complete antithesis of "Linux" 
greater than thou, high brow, wankerism and if you really want to get 
into it is aimed directly at "young" windows users who might be 
interested in learning about Linux Audio. Now if I was aiming it as mac 
users then I would not even go near an animated logo.

An animated logo is simply another way to display movement, action and 
the concept of multimedia. If you look at the rest of the content there 
it is trying to provide a lot of visual context and we even have a 
couple of videos now.

I would expect that the majority of people round here wouldn't even need 
to read a quicktoot most of us are more than capable of figuring out how 
to do things on our own.

But feel free to hate. It seems to be a bit of a theme these days anyway...



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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.