Will checked in a new PatternSkinHeaderArt topic.

Anton suggested on twiki-dev to package that as a contrib for other skins to use. Good idea. In any case, the header art should not ship with the PatternSkin since most logos are not designed for a dark background. See also Item1332

My feedback:

• Use only images with copyright question cleared
  • they're pictures i took during my travels, so i have copyright clearance however, you are right that this is an important point, and we need to make sure that we have usage rights when creating header art. -- WN
• Use jpg instead of png because:
  • reduced size (cobblestones.png has 203KB, cobblestones.jpg has 38KB with x10 compression)
  • less browser issues

-- PTh

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Actually I said a bit more...
I pointed out that having a Contrib ... a won't overload PatternSkin a can be used by other skins.

Also, Will made a mistake with these so that they can ONLY be used PatternSkin, being 60 px high.

• i don't know if i'd call that a mistake, as it was original design intention to make header art for PatternSkin. however, you provided me with some useful information on how to make it more generic (with the positioning). thanks. -- WN

If he'd left them higher, 200, 300, then other skins such as NatSkin could use them. PatternSkin can use them by clipping and positioning.

• and what should the magic number be? just because NatSkin (which i quite like---don't get me wrong), uses 200px, is that suddenly the "standard"? although background positioning helps, it seems like there are two choices: center the image, or use the top (unless we introduce another variable or whatever to control the positioning), so there are still constraints about how header art should be created. -- WN

I have a 1280x300 image I built originally for NatSkin. I also use it with PatternSkin. The PatternSkin 'boxes' clip it automagically, all I supply is the offset:

#patternTopBar {
    background-image:url("%PUBURL%/TWiki/NatSkin/StarCircle.jpg");
    background-position: 25% 50%;
}

Didn't Arthur have that at one time in his cookbook? I recall I e-mailed him details of this.

-- AJA

yes, it's here: http://develop.twiki.org/~develop/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/PatternSkinCssCookbookTopBarBackgroundImage

i will move the pictures into a separate contrib (i didn't actually mean to check them in originally, but i checked in a MANIFEST with those files listed, so i then went ahead and added them). i don't even know if

any suggestions on names for the contrib(s)?

-- WN

SVN:8156 removes the sample files from PatternSkin and creates an EmptyHeaderArtContrib

-- WN

SVN:8218 - template EmptyHeaderArtContrib (and support added in twikiplugins/create-new-plugin.pl

SVN:8220 - takes the previously checked in artwork from PatternSkin and instead now there's an ExampleHeaderArtContrib

WN