[CMake-Promote] Tracking the logo

[Brandon J. Van Every]

I inadvertantly devised a method for determining CMake's popularity.  
Google for "CMakeBanner."  Unfortunately this yields a very small number 
of hits, like 5.  "CMake logo" yields a lot more hits, although I don't 
know how many of those actually yield CMake logos rather than any old 
logo.  I find that the CMake-logo-high-res.* files are listed almost 
nowhere, presumably because they're high-res.

CMake needs a proper banner logo, readily available for download, and 
prominently placed so that anyone downloading CMake will notice that 
they can get a banner if they like.  As it stands, the high-res versions 
are the last entry on the CMake downloads and I doubt most people will 
ever scroll down that far.  An example of a better approach can be found 
at http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates/homepage .  The promotion 
stuff is put in the right-hand sidebar, with examples of standard sized 
buttons available.

The logo quality also needs to be improved.  There is noticable 
"ringing" in the logo of the cmake.org homepage; at present, high-res is 
clearly not high-quality.

If we pick a simple name for the CMake logo file, like CMakeLogo.gif or 
whatnot, then as people adopt and display those logos, we can search 'em 
via Google.  For this to work, it's important to pick logo filenames 
that are consistent with common banner logo conventions, and are also 
simple in their own right.  Looking at 
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates/homepage I'm a little 
confused as to how many standard conventions there are.  I believe I've 
read that 80x15 is a common size, but clearly there's a graphic design 
learning curve to go up here.  Firefox is waving way, way too many 
buttons under people's noses for our purposes.  I will attempt to decode 
the general canon of logo button web design, such as it may be, and will 
report back.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
I won't spend more than 1 day configuring 1 thing.