[VOIPSA Best Practices] Any graphically-inclined folks out there who can make a "VOIPSA Best Practices" image for blogs, web sites, etc.?

[dan_york at Mitel.com]

Best Practices team,

<random diversion>

A fun little diversion while we wait another day to close on the document 
structure....

Any folks out there good at making little "badge" type of graphics for 
websites like blogs and such?

As I wrote up this announcement on the VOIPSA blog about the last call for 
a document structure:

 
http://voipsa.org/blog/2007/01/17/voipsa-best-practices-last-call-for-comment-on-document-structure/

it occurred to me that it really needed a graphic next to it just to make 
the page look more interesting.  I was tempted to grab the VOIPSA logo 
from the main VOIPSA web page at:

  http://www.voipsa.org/images/voiplogo_home.gif

but being just the VOIPSA logo alone, it would look kind of silly right 
now on the main VOIPSA blog page where the right sidebar has this small 
VOIPSA logo there:

  http://www.voipsa.org/images/voipsa_small.gif

So... it occurred to the PR/marketing side of my brain... we ought to have 
a "VOIPSA Best Practices" graphic that we could:

1. Put it on the Best Practices project page at 
http://www.voipsa.org/images/voipsa_small.gif and also in the wiki
2. Use it in VoIPSA blog postings and other things like Blue Box posting 
that talk about best practices.

By virtue of doing that, we'd also make available a graphic that other 
bloggers and news sites could use to display along with any postings or 
articles they do about the Best Practices project.  As a blogger looking 
for those type of graphics when I'm writing posts, I know other bloggers 
would use it - and undoubtedly so would various news sites.  They have the 
same idea - they don't want pure text-only pages if they can avoid it.

Now, if left to my own non-graphically-inclined devices, I'll play with 
Paint or Powerpoint and make a square navy-blue box, put the VOIPSA logo 
at the top and "Best Practices" at the bottom... and that works... but I 
have to imagine there's someone out on this list with a more creative 
streak who could do something a bit more artistic or classier.

So here's what I'm thinking:
 - A square graphic, no bigger than 150x150 pixels.
 - The VOIPSA logo somewhere in there with the navy-ish blue background 
that we use (see links above).  For branding purposes, the logo should 
probably be unmodified.
 - The words "Best Practices" or "Best Practices Project" somewhere in 
there
 - You want it to be simple enough to be something people can see and 
easily interpret

In thinking about, in the ideal world the graphic could have the words 
"Best Practices" easily replaced with "Threat Taxonomy" if we decided to 
do a similar graphic for the Threat Taxonomy project.

Ideally, the graphic might also be able to be morphed into a smaller badge 
(maybe rectangular) that could say something like "Support VOIPSA Best 
Practices" or something.  (You know, something like the kinds of things 
offered by Spread Firefox: 
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates/homepage only undoubtedly of 
interest to a much smaller subset of sites, eh?)

Anyway...  if anyone wants to indulge their creative side and come up with 
something for consideration, please send it along (preferably directly to 
me vs to the list).  If we get a couple of ideas we'll post them to the 
blog for consideration.  If we don't, well, maybe some morning when the 
cats wake me up way too early I'll fire up Paint.  :-)

</random diversion>

We now return you to your consideration of document structure... 

Regards,
Dan

-- 
Dan York, CISSP
Dir of IP Technology, Office of the CTO
Mitel Corp.     http://www.mitel.com
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