Cyclic web design standards

This page, intended mainly for communication within Cyclic and with our graphic designers, describes our graphic design standards for our web site and web banners.

General

Images should look good on all backgrounds. In practice, this means that all images should be surrounded by some kind of border, with no use of transparency (except that one might use a non-rectangular border with no anti-aliasing on the outside edge).

No animation. No how, no where, no way.

"Cyclic Software" should be in a sans serif font in logos (as on our home page). A few of the older designs use Times or some such, but that is somewhat uglier.

Web ads

460 x 60 pixels, maximum size 12K bytes:

Cyclic Gallery logo

(Web/CD-ROM)

Logos particularly intended for resellers

The exact sizes here are more or less arbitrary.

Cyclic, 256x86 pixels, 7k bytes:

Cyclic, 84x38 pixels, 1k bytes:

Cyclic/CVS, 334x95 pixels, 3k bytes:

Graphics for the Cyclic web page

Logo at top of home page:

Logo at top of Cyclic pages (pages without a particular CVS focus). English and International:

Logo at top of CVS pages. English and International:

Logo at the bottom of every page. Note that this is an exception to the rule about borders, because it is used in a context where browsers will generally add their own border:

Legal

The Cyclic logos are trademarks of Cyclic Software; we authorize their use only to refer to genuine Cyclic Products. If you want to produce your own CD-ROM's, T shirts, &c, or refer to the electronically distributed software, please use the CVS logos instead (and/or the logos for PRCS, Aegis, &c).

See also

LinuxWorld specs for banner ads.