Timeline for Why do people not notice our enormous, prominent, clear and contrasting purple banner?
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| Sep 4, 2018 at 17:38 | comment | added | Doktor J | @user2979044 here are some icons I mocked up. If you like them, ping me and I could look into making SVG versions or something else nicer that scales better. The cauldron and book images are CC-BY and CC-BY-NC licensed, which I think is acceptable for your wiki (it's noncommercial right?) imgur.com/a/Zc1dsCx | |
| Sep 4, 2018 at 17:16 | comment | added | Doktor J |
@user2979044 additionally, you could do a book icon (with a different color scheme, and relevant alt/hover text of course) for SRD/official stuff. Maybe bright red for the "official" icon, and a shade of grey for homebrew (so it's easier to tell at a glance as per @joltmode's comments)? Just be sure to choose a shade of grey that is distinguishable for colorblind users! For example, if you use #ee2200 for the red, go several shades lighter than #595959 which is what that shade of red approximates to for users with achromatopsia.
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| Sep 4, 2018 at 16:50 | comment | added | Doktor J | @user2979044 maybe use iconography? a big cauldron icon preceding the page title for homebrew (with "Homebrew" alt/hover text), while SRD stuff retains the "SRD:" label in its title... maybe that would make a greater distinction? | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 22:18 | comment | added | forest | It was flashing and everything! | |
| Sep 1, 2018 at 14:46 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Aug 31, 2018 at 6:13 | comment | added | tomsseisums | About icons... what about going the other way? Mark official content with a seal of approval/verification (Twitter/Spotify verified accounts)... then the visitor won't have to put effort into validating if it's unofficial, where that would be the default. And the effort to seek official content will come with an intrinsic reward - the "ah-ha! this is a legit one". In other words, validating that something is "negative" is not rewarding at all. | |
| Aug 29, 2018 at 20:41 | history | edited | Mayo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 29, 2018 at 19:38 | comment | added | anon | I guess I totally spoiled myself by effectively blocking all web ads for so many years. I never evolved this mechanism. Freaky deaky, but makes sense. | |
| Aug 28, 2018 at 16:05 | comment | added | PhillipW | I'll just emphasise the "subconsciously" in this answer. Users aren't even choosing not to look at it. It has to all intents vanished. It's a general psychological process called "Inattentional Blindness" . | |
| Aug 27, 2018 at 19:31 | comment | added | Zibbobz | Another thing that could help is changing the shape of the banner entirely - the image is blocked on this computer, but anything that is a long rectangle shape (like the ad below these comments) will be assumed to be an ad - if instead you make it a perfect circle, people will stop thinking of it as a banner entirely. | |
| Aug 27, 2018 at 13:03 | comment | added | Wouter Lievens | Spot on I think, even after reading the question my head still filters it out... | |
| Aug 27, 2018 at 12:02 | comment | added | Baptiste Candellier | Totally agree. In any case, I would recommend placing the alert or banner underneath the page title: that's where the content goes, and where the reader will jump to instinctively. | |
| Aug 27, 2018 at 9:25 | history | answered | Wendy Wojenka | CC BY-SA 4.0 |