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Nice one!
i use a mid-tone raspberry background for word etc (special) but would be nice here too.
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Seriously, though, I'll bear it in mind the next time I do tweaks - I'll convert the image background to transparent (the Guitar Show banner will have gone by then).
Oh well...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
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We actually put out a job spec on freelancer.com (I think), and you should've seen some of the guff we got back. I'm reasonably convinced some of them were just Microsoft clipart.
We just wanted something clear, clean and recognisable so that when we stick it on t-shirts/mugs/calendars etc it's effectively an instantly-recognisable brand. As a bonus, the box on the left gives us an icon too.
Can't please everyone, but we seem to have pleased most people
It's awful.
The 'guitar' logo itself is vile, it looks like something a marketing consultant would have come up with in the 1990s to make a boring old music company seem fresh and trendy. I know this is personal taste, but the 'body' shape reminds me of a Knaggs, which is almost everything I detest about electric guitars… and an angled pointy headstock is the rest. The 'fretboard' font doesn't go with it, the angled e is irritating, and to cap it all the '.co.uk' shoved under the far end makes the whole thing look tilted and off-kilter.
Its actually so hard on my eyes that I have to quickly scroll it up out of the way. Thankfully I can't see it on my phone…
That's a shame, because it's by far the best-looking part of it.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Yeah, a transparent PNG logo is the way to go - and optional themes would be a good idea (not that I'd stop using the current one - black text on light background is always best).
(formerly miserneil)
I use an add on with firefox called 'colour that site'. I have to change the white background colour on this site (a few others too) because looking at it on my 30" monitor is like looking into a searchlight.
I have three other PC's with different colour schemes for this site.
I liked the old banner MUCH better, although I can see that it was possibly a bit busy and heavy-looking.
How about something that's a better play on 'Fretboard'? It occured to me that Fretboard has nine letters, which is the same as the traditional number of position markers on a guitar fretboard…
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
My goodness, that old chestnut, seriously?
"Yngwie Malmsteen is shit!"
"I suppose you can shred faster, then?"
"Laura Cox is sooo ugly, wouldn't touch her with yours, mate!"
"So you're married to a supermodel?"
Wicked!
So, Becker:
http://www.guitars.ru/05/ax/becker.jpg
Or Tufnel?
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/sZIAAOSwx-9WyRgA/s-l1600.jpg
Two of my favourite guitars ever.
With that said, I'm (personally) not totally averse to @JezWynd's idea of using the box on the side as the icon only and removing it from the header. We'll probably have a chat about that behind the curtain.