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I think rich banners make the new theme work much better visually. Have a look at the following:

These seem to fit in much better with the new theme than our much-adored but now overstretched text-and-tape. In contrast, look at the following text-dominated beta sites - they look clinical and unappealing:

Even a fairly 'small' or plain graphical elements can help:

For EL&U, consider using a (faded? beige? sepia? wood-dominant?) picture of an old library.

Here's (a link to) a collection from shutterstock. The expansive panorama of the Rijksmuseum Library gives a flavour of what I'm talking about. (Please excuse the lack of pictures; I'm not familiar with shutterstock's policies regarding reproducing images on unrelated sites.)

Having an olde worlde picture as the banner would also lend a touch of class to the site, perhaps subtly encouraging questions and answers to live up to it.

I think rich banners make the new theme work much better visually. Have a look at the following:

These seem to fit in much better with the new theme than our much-adored but now overstretched text-and-tape. In contrast, look at the following text-dominated beta sites - they look clinical and unappealing:

Even a fairly 'small' or plain graphical elements can help:

For EL&U, consider using a (faded? beige? sepia? wood-dominant?) picture of an old library.

Here's (a link to) a collection from shutterstock. The expansive panorama of the Rijksmuseum Library gives a flavour of what I'm talking about. (Please excuse the lack of pictures; I'm not familiar with shutterstock's policies regarding reproducing images on unrelated sites.)

Having an olde worlde picture as the banner would also lend a touch of class to the site, perhaps subtly encouraging questions and answers to live up to it.

I think rich banners make the new theme work much better visually. Have a look at the following:

These seem to fit in much better with the new theme than our much-adored but now overstretched text-and-tape. In contrast, look at the following text-dominated beta sites - they look clinical and unappealing:

Even fairly 'small' or plain graphical elements can help:

For EL&U, consider using a (faded? beige? sepia? wood-dominant?) picture of an old library.

Here's (a link to) a collection from shutterstock. The expansive panorama of the Rijksmuseum Library gives a flavour of what I'm talking about. (Please excuse the lack of pictures; I'm not familiar with shutterstock's policies regarding reproducing images on unrelated sites.)

Having an olde worlde picture as the banner would also lend a touch of class to the site, perhaps subtly encouraging questions and answers to live up to it.

Expanded the argument about graphical elements by linking to sites without them and sites with minimal such elements.
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Lawrence
Lawrence
  • 39k
  • 18
  • 32

I think rich banners make the new theme work much better visually. Have a look at the following:

These seem to fit in much better with the new theme than our much-adored but now overstretched text-and-tape. In contrast, look at the following text-dominated beta sites - they look clinical and unappealing:

Even a fairly 'small' or plain graphical elements can help:

For EL&U, consider using a (faded? beige? sepia? wood-dominant?) picture of an old library.

Here's (a link to) a collection from shutterstock. The expansive panorama of the Rijksmuseum Library gives a flavour of what I'm talking about. (Please excuse the lack of pictures; I'm not familiar with shutterstock's policies regarding reproducing images on unrelated sites.)

Having an olde worlde picture as the banner would also lend a touch of class to the site, perhaps subtly encouraging questions and answers to live up to it.

I think rich banners make the new theme work much better visually. Have a look at the following:

These seem to fit in much better with the new theme than our much-adored but now overstretched text-and-tape.

For EL&U, consider using a (faded? beige? sepia? wood-dominant?) picture of an old library.

Here's (a link to) a collection from shutterstock. The expansive panorama of the Rijksmuseum Library gives a flavour of what I'm talking about. (Please excuse the lack of pictures; I'm not familiar with shutterstock's policies regarding reproducing images on unrelated sites.)

Having an olde worlde picture as the banner would also lend a touch of class to the site, perhaps subtly encouraging questions and answers to live up to it.

I think rich banners make the new theme work much better visually. Have a look at the following:

These seem to fit in much better with the new theme than our much-adored but now overstretched text-and-tape. In contrast, look at the following text-dominated beta sites - they look clinical and unappealing:

Even a fairly 'small' or plain graphical elements can help:

For EL&U, consider using a (faded? beige? sepia? wood-dominant?) picture of an old library.

Here's (a link to) a collection from shutterstock. The expansive panorama of the Rijksmuseum Library gives a flavour of what I'm talking about. (Please excuse the lack of pictures; I'm not familiar with shutterstock's policies regarding reproducing images on unrelated sites.)

Having an olde worlde picture as the banner would also lend a touch of class to the site, perhaps subtly encouraging questions and answers to live up to it.

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Lawrence
Lawrence
  • 39k
  • 18
  • 32

I think rich banners make the new theme work much better visually. Have a look at the following:

These seem to fit in much better with the new theme than our much-adored but now overstretched text-and-tape.

For EL&U, consider using a (faded? beige? sepia? wood-dominant?) picture of an old library.

Here's (a link to) a collection from shutterstock. The expansive panorama of the Rijksmuseum Library gives a flavour of what I'm talking about. (Please excuse the lack of pictures; I'm not familiar with shutterstock's policies regarding reproducing images on unrelated sites.)

Having an olde worlde picture as the banner would also lend a touch of class to the site, perhaps subtly encouraging questions and answers to live up to it.