I was staring blankly at my blog earlier and I thought maybe it’s time to redo the banner. I decided to mention my musings here on the off chance that someone out there cares at all, and has ideas I could mooch. Weighing the good and the bad of the current banner:
- things move and fade in
- there's a new haiku every fifteen seconds
- there's a theme song for the clicking
- it breaks out of its box
- never got that wow factor
- stylistically all over the place
- Flash - doesn't work everywhere
The last one is the biggie. Flash does not now and never will work on some mobile devices. The number of devices where Flash works is declining now that Microsoft has decided to give up on Flash as well. So… time to move on. Eventually.
One impediment: I don’t know what I want the new header to look like. Something geeky. Gears turning? That would be cool, and could fall back to static gears on older browsers. Maybe some kind of machine that spits out the haiku? Or does a duck poop them out? What should the typesetting look like? How should it reveal?
Maybe a way to pop up a form and submit new guest poems?
Should there be an elevator? An ocelot? A rutabaga?
Frankly, I’m completely stumped.
These sorts of solicitations haven’t met with much response in the past, but if anyone out there has thoughts on the whole design thing, I’d love to hear them.
