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Tweaked the visual appearance

I have altered the look of this banner slightly, according to some conversations and also to bring it closer in accordance with the new Stub banner.

New version

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Previous look

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Of course, feel free to make any improvements, or even revert if the change isn't considered appropriate at all. Anyway, personally I have to say I think the new version looks fairly great. :-) Optimist 16:35, 25 September 2007 (CDT)

What do you think about this?

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William One Sac | tinWiki Master 23:00, 25 September 2007 (CDT)

William One Sac, absolutely do I think the alignment thing is a matter of 'taste' and so on, and center alignment works, in my opinion, quite well. Why I removed the center alignment is I considered it made the banner maybe more 'monumental' and attention grabbing, in a way, than needed be.

To illustrate what I mean, this paragraph is written with

center alignment, and personally, at least, I feel such alignment

makes some special impression of importance.

But it works quite well, and so as I assume you prefer the style, I do think the banner text should be center aligned. Thanks for asking my opinion, by the way, I consider that fairly flattering, I want to say. :-)

More generally, since you like the Stub banner background color I did, and since you didn't mention other things about this version of the Fix banner, I assume you think the Fix banner looks alright, apart from the alignment, I mean. As you notice, the Stub banner's color is a bleached out version of the green bluish color it had, and this Fix banner now is a bleached out version of the inverse color of the Stub banner's previous, stronger, color. So, the colors are now basically the opposite of each other, then, which should help distinguish the banners from each other, even if the colors are this light.

By the way, I am planning to make the border of the Stub banner the same as what I did here, which is to say I plan to make it a gray color instead of black. I hope you'll like it, and if not, of course feel free to simply revert; after all, I'm just trying out little things here that I think of. :-) By doing these cooperation things back and forth, though, improvements are very surely happening, as I see it. Optimist 18:58, 26 September 2007 (CDT)

I think you have done a wonderful job with this banner Optimist. The thing with the center alignment may have more to do with my monitors resolution than anything else. On my monitor, the link for the tutorial is on one side of the banner, and then the sentence finishes all the way to the left. That is why I suggested aligning the text in the center. I checked the banner on a screen with lower resolution, and this was not a problem, the banner looked fine the way you have it. So just to be clear, I really do think that the text needs to be center aligned, so that when a person sees it it is easy and concise to read.

I do like the grey border better, it seems to blend into the page better. William One Sac | tinWiki Master 22:25, 26 September 2007 (CDT)

Thank you, William One Sac, I am glad you like the banner in general. Recently now I have been keeping my resolution on 1024x768, but now I tried 1152x864 and 1280x960, and I certainly see what you mean that it looks somewhat awkward when the link goes across two lines. I am totally for it, making the text center aligned. On a side note, of course, there are other options that could be interesting to just keep in mind regarding this sort of topic in general, which are no break spaces (& n b s p ;) which keep a sentence from breaking at a space, and also banners can be given a fixed width (as opposed to a percent of the page width), and also just forcing a line break before the sentence does already put it in its own line so there would be no line break in the link anyway. These things are alternatives then, if you don't like center alignment in itself, but like I say I'm completely in favor of having the text center justified. To me it's just a different style, both look great. :-) Optimist 19:02, 27 September 2007 (CDT)