[tor-bugs] #17880 [Website]: Create a similar donation banner (from about:tor) to torproject.org homepage

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#17880: Create a similar donation banner (from about:tor) to torproject.org
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 Reporter:  isabela  |          Owner:  Sebastian
     Type:  defect   |         Status:  reopened
 Priority:  Medium   |      Milestone:
Component:  Website  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal   |     Resolution:
 Keywords:           |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:  #17534   |         Points:
  Sponsor:           |
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Comment (by mrphs):

 Replying to [comment:5 isabela]:

 > Thanks for bringing it up, I will reply below - but first, what needs to
 take into consideration here is the lack of capacity we have at the moment
 to have a banner in time for the last two weeks of the campaign. So many
 of the things listed below were decided to be that way because of that.
 >
 > If we have more capacity we will apply changes, but we might not have it
 to make it better - and yes, we do know is not great and it should be
 better. But right now we are with time and capacity problem. So please
 keep this in mind if you don't see some of the suggestions applied to it.
 What we want to avoid is to drag this for too long and miss the
 opportunity to have it for more time in the HP.
 \\
 While I appreciate the 'get it done' attitude, and I understand we're
 under staffed and too many things to do, but I don't think capacity
 argument applies in this context. I know you as our valued and appreciated
 PM are overwhelmed but my comments were not to criticize your work, nor
 I'm asking to take this down. I'm simply offering what could make us look
 much better.
 \\
 > > - the text on the image is actually image, not text. For about:tor
 page, it's somewhat understandable but for the home page, it really isn't.
 It takes much longer to load. The content wouldn't be indexed and this
 design totally ignores visually impaired users, which is tbh offensive to
 them.
 > >
 > >
 >
 > Yes, we decided to go with image because it would be faster and since we
 are not translating this one, we could do img instead of txt. I agree with
 the problems you listed. But again, consideration here is capacity.
 \\
 the `about:tor` page is different. We had so many limitations there, and I
 understood the capacity issue there, hence I didn't say anything.
 `about:tor` doesn't get indexed by search-engines, we couldn't update its
 content after TB was released, and we were under a serious time pressure
 to ship, and we couldn't update it after it was shipped with TB. None of
 this are the case with the home page.

 Replying to [comment:7 leiah]:

 > Did you think they looked like 1997 this whole time, or just right now?
 \\
 We need different designs for different places. What works on twitter
 doesn't necessarily work on the home page. It can be still a bold and
 flashy and eye catching design but doesn't have to break the layout...
 \\
 > Perhaps an easy fix would be to repurpose the purple rectangle-photo
 text-based banner you created for the donate page and affix it to the top
 of the homepage, like this (but add a green DONATE button):
 > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/17880/tpo-
 homepage.jpg
 >
 > Maybe that'd be easy enough to do quickly?
 \\
 I like this better than the current design. But it doesn't have to be
 exactly what we have on tpo/donate nor has to be in purple. Do you think
 if we can come up with something that addresses all the issues I've listed
 above and is still catchy?

 Unfortunately, I don't have photoshop to make mock-ups etc, but I can
 certainly help with getting the new design into the website.

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