New site header design, thanks to ABEL ADAMES

Hi fellow proggers !!!

I was told that if you can't say something nice...........

Haha that's fun, bavo! 

M@X wrote: Snow Dog wrote: .....in other words I don't like it.

Will this be released as banners which we can use for our own websites too, M@X ? The current banners are rather toothless compared to the new design you have just implemented to my satisfaction/joy.

Please remove your current banners and use the new heading as banners.

............. Did I mention I like the new heading ? No ? Well, it has my thumbs up. 

Edit: Your current banners are squirrel droppings awful, M@X. Please use the new design, compact it a bit and release it as the new banners.

Edited by toroddfuglesteg - October 12 2010 at 14:03

It often takes me a while to warm up to changes when I am used to something, but I seem to quite like this.

My only concern is to be sure using the various images is not a legal problem (I know this has been discussed with respect to Abel's collages themselves, but I just wanted to be sure about the images being used as a heading for a website).

But yes, I do like it.

I'm in the minority again.

Yep, like it

Robert, though, has introduced a note of caution - don't get yourself sued M@X, we sure would miss this place

Snow Dog wrote: M@X wrote: ^ no no no , I am not upset, I just wonder what you don't like (more precisions, to help improve maybe) Ok....From a design point its not as clean or neat looking now, The PROG ARCHIVES gets lost in the background. The background itself doesn't seem very high res either. The third point is more personal in that I am not a huge fan of collages I hope thats better!

Ian, Ian.

But ProgArchives name isn't lost in the background. This orange monster is virtually shining there. Indeed, I have moderate brightness setting on my laptop.

With 1280x800 resolution, it's big enough, but you're right that it's not that sharp as it could have been. But I'm fan of sharpened images. Not extremely, but on sharp <=> blurry scale I'm more inclined to sharp point of view. I'm not sharp dressed man though.

And third one, I enjoy collages.

M@X ? Were you thinking about my suggestions, particulary the one about moving genres / popular bands / alphabetical listing of artists into combo boxes ?

It can save a lot of space.

As Rob pointed out, as long as it does not violate any copyrights for images, then it's fine (I think under fair dealing/ fair use legislation it's acceptable). I would rather the Prog Archives: Your Ultimate Prog Rock Resource" logo thing stood out more rather than having it blend in so much (I would either lighten or darken the area around it or highlight it more in some manner).  I also find the collage too busy for my tastes, especially around the "Prog Archives" part.  Too many men in the picture too (including man hiney).  Personal preference, I'd rather see more females (Gabriel in a dress, and there's a similar other one, doesn't cut it) or non-people things.  Though this would have been nice worked into it:



Wouldn't expect it, but I'd rather something more original that captures the spirit of Progressive Music somehow. 

Maybe something a little shocking/ disturbing/ bizarre like a brain or two wearing headphones. One brain is electrically charged, and one is exploding (this is your brain on Prog)  Then we could have some guy screaming rather like the King Crimson cover while someone else is laughing.  Or, I'd like and angels and demons scene where the angels and demons are dancing on broken vinyl records.  Or some good trip/ bad trip imagery.  But that's just me.