X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E317D1F0CC for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:17:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 45291-04 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:17:30 -0300 (ADT) Received: from www.postgresql.com (www.postgresql.com [200.46.204.209]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24718D1FF7F for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:43:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ngate.rdw.ru (mail.rdw.ru [195.42.172.4]) by www.postgresql.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 24FE3CF660B for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:40:37 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 26479 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2004 18:40:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rdw.ru) (192.168.0.57) by ngate.rdw.ru with SMTP; 20 Apr 2004 18:40:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 20292 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2004 18:40:37 -0000 Received: from ppp01.rdw.ru (HELO cs.msu.su) ([192.168.0.7]) (envelope-sender ) by rdw.ru (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Apr 2004 18:40:36 -0000 Message-ID: <40856E91.50608@cs.msu.su> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 22:40:17 +0400 From: Alexey Borzov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: banner abominations Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200404/171 X-Sequence-Number: 4275 Hi! Looks like we may get professional design for a new version of website, so I'd like to raise the question about *the* most ugly thing on current one: banners. 1) Do we need these? 2) Do we need them in such a prominent place? I think that the banner that now serves for open-source projects' promotion should be replaced by some "Featured project" section, having a description and a link to the project. This will IMHO work a *lot* better than current home-made banners. The mirror hosters' ads should be displayed on respective mirrors, just as this is done f.e. on http://www.php.net/ The only problem is the sponsors' banners. Does anybody actually buy these, BTW?