[Clipart] check it

[Daniel Carrera]

Sigh.  I forgot to edit the To: address again. :-)

Jonathan Phillips wrote:
> I completely agree with you. I started to put affiliates at the bottom
> of the site, but maybe it should be bumped up in priority.

I think putting them on a left pannel makes sense.  It doesn't take over the 
site, but at the same time they are not hidden from view.

> MS does a great job selling stuff! Their branding is crazy-good!
> 
> How else can we learn from their interface for graphics?
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 23:36, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> 
>>Jonathan Phillips wrote:
>>
>>>http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/
>>>
>>>I somehow came across M$'s clipart site. What do you all think about the
>>>primarily text based interface that site uses.
>>
>>This is very difficult for me to say:  MS had done a good job.
>>
>>;-)
>>
>>
>>
>>>I think it is hard to decide what to select as there is so much
>>>information on that page.
>>
>>Consider that the OpenClipart page would not contain the information on the 
>>right and left panels, or the top headers.  All of that is advertisement for 
>>MS products.  When you remove all of that, the page will actually look kind 
>>of empty.
>>
>>In fact, I would advocate using a left panel to advertise our favourite open 
>>source projects.  Making especial emphasis on the projects that someone 
>>looking for clipart is likely to be interested in.  For instance (in no 
>>particular order):
>>
>>    *  Inkscape.
>>    *  Sodipodi.
>>    *  OpenOffice.org
>>    *  GIMP.
>>    *  KOffice.
>>    *  TheOpenCD.
>>
>>
>>There was a recent survey to find out the level of awareness of open source. 
>>  The results were disappointing.  The only open source projects people knew 
>>about were Linux and OpenOffice.org.  Very few people were able to name any 
>>other.
>>
>>This isn't surprising since those are the two projects that are actively 
>>advertised by some company.  Okay, no one really pays for OpenOffice 
>>advertising.  But when Sun advertises StarOffice, it is common for them to 
>>mention its "open source sibbling".
>>
>>I think that it would be good if open source projects advertised each other. 
>>  We just have to make sure that it is done well.  OpenOffice will be 
>>advertising the OpenClipart project.  Likewise, OpenClipart can advertise 
>>Inkscape, Sodipodi, GIMP and KOffice.  Does that make sense?
>>
>>Maybe Inkscape, Sodipodi and GIMP can promote each other.
>>
>>Maybe there is a good way that OOo can help promote KOffice.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>I do like how you can select multiple images and they are added to your
>>>basket so that you can download all selected images at the end, and as a
>>>zip file. That is novel!
>>
>>+1
>>
>>Cheers,


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