As discussed on IRC, here's a DONATE! spotlight graphic and a proposal for a site-wide Donate-link in the header.

This spotlight attachment is an updated version of the one posted here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/4160

A screenshot of the small, site-wide Donate link: http://www.yoroy.com/elders/drupal/drupal-donate-link.jpg

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#22 donate-link-belowtabs.png10.62 KByoroy
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#19 footer-donateslogans.png5.64 KByoroy
#11 icon-donate-orange.png360 bytesyoroy
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yoroy commented
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attaching the druplicoin…

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kbahey commented
Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community

I think this is great.

We need to get this implemented on d.o ASAP.

Is it Steven or someone else who can integrate it in the theme, and make it link to a.d.o/donate?

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jlambert commented
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Here's another thought...

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jlambert commented
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Going to add three more, to pick one...

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jlambert commented
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second

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jlambert commented
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third

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jlambert commented
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With Steve Rude's converastion

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yoroy commented
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jlambert: I think the underlying "inverted" tab-like background is a bit too much for just a single item.

attaching orange and green variations, with and without the druplicoin eyes.

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kbahey commented
Title: donation graphics » Graphics for donation link on drupal.org
Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Needs work

The -5 image looks the best.

Meanwhile, as a temporary measure, sepeck added a "Donate Now!" link on the navigation menu. So every logged in user will see it.

We still need a better looking link at the top right for all logged in and logged out users.

So keep the ideas rolling

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moshe weitzman commented

i have offerrd my help in placing graphics and adding text. zack has offerred to figure out what graphics and where and what copy. but at this point, i'll take anyone's thoughful suggestion on that. i have shelll access.

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yoroy commented
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Moshe, to add an icon+link in the top right corner use something like this: (of course the CSS should be added to an existing external stylesheet)

People liked the orange druplicoin, attaching it.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
	<title>test</title>
	<style type="text/css" title="text/css">
<!--
#donate {
  float:right;
}
#donate ul {
  margin-top: 0em;
  margin-right:1em;
}

#donate li {
  list-style-image: url('donate-link-icon.png');
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
        <a title="Index page" href="/"><img alt="Logo" src="/themes/bluebeach/logos/drupal.org.png" id="logo"/></a>

<!--  the donate bit:  -->      
        <div id="donate"><ul><li><a href="#">Donate</a></li></ul></div>
<!--   end of donate bit  --> 

<div id="tabfloat">...</div>
</header>


</body>
</html>
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dww
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i, too, can help get this stuff on d.o. the donate spotlight image from the original post seems like a no-brainer. any objections to adding that right away, while we sort out the other link/icon?

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kbahey commented

Moshe already did the spotlight block (left side).

What we need now is the top right (above the primary links) icon/link.

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Amazon commented

Don't say "Donate now!". Just "Donate". Empirical evidence shows one word gets more clicks than two words.

Be sure you give them the option to either donate or sign up for a Drupal Association membership. We don't want to appear to be asking twice and get a lot of complaints, "if I'd only known about the membership".

I think you can monitor the clicks on the new Donate now! link. You currently have two links in the user block, one for Drupal association and one for Donate now!

You might want to consider the relationship between those two. It should be obvious how they are related.

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dww
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FYI: i just changed "Donate now!" to "Donate" in the navigation menu as per amazon's suggestion (and b/c i thought the "now!" part was a little over-the-top and annoying). still waiting on a good solution for the top banner for all pages, anonymous or otherwise.

also, i just committed the spotlight donate image and changes to drupal.org.tpl.php to the private CVS repo for bluebeach, so this is no longer an uncommitted local modification on d.o, but it's now official, tracked, etc.

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zacker commented

Thanks DWW. I would love to see more design ideas for where to place the donate link. I put a request out on g.d.o:

http://groups.drupal.org/node/4336

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jlambert commented
Title: Graphics for donation link on drupal.org » I posted some suggestions

I posted some suggestions (in addition to the posts above) over here:
http://drupal.org/node/148485

Boris had some good points too.

Is there any chance of building this into the profile? I would like to be a "pro" user on Drupal.org, a la flickr.

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yoroy commented
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Another option would be to have friendly donate reminders in the footer. Multiple ones could be rotated at random or time-based like the spotlight images.

Show some love, donate
Help Drupal grow, consider donating
Used Drupal on your project? Consider donating a percentage
etc.

screenshot attached

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kbahey commented

There is an idea ...

but I like it better above the fold. This way it has more exposure.

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yoroy commented
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^ true @ better above the fold. Still, I like it when I see footers like that in sites, a nice touch in a humane tone of voice.

For the drupal.org frontpage (and frontpage only) the empty bit in the green panel on the right might be a good spot too, above the fold and strategic: Here, download this, this, these and that. Finish that list with a invitation to donate. Smart or annoying?

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yoroy commented
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One more option that could be used site-wide: below the tabs, left of the searchbox. Quite prominent. Don't even know if I like this, might well be too prominent/annoying. See attach.

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Amazon commented

Good feedback

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yoroy commented
Status: Needs work » Fixed

For now the "donate" link in the user menu and the Donate spotlight banner will suffice.

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)