The Open Laboratory 2009 – the ‘Submit’ buttons for you to choose

Posted on March 18, 2009 by | 10 Comments

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It really helps the Open Lab project if a lot of people have handy little ‘submit to Open Lab’ buttons/badges on their side-bars. More blogs have it, the better. Just one click, and the entry is submitted (instead of coming here and searching for the link).
So, I asked for new button designs and got more than one to choose from. Instead of choosing one myself, I thought I’d ask the hive-mind: which one do you like the best so we can turn it into the ‘official’ design? Suggest changes to designs as well. Post your vote in the comments and in 5 days I will tally them up and post the codes for the winning design in several different sizes.
This button was designed by Zen Faulkes:
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These buttons were designed by Daniel Brown:
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10 responses to “The Open Laboratory 2009 – the ‘Submit’ buttons for you to choose”

  1. Zen Faulkes's avatar Zen Faulkes | March 18, 2009 at 1:30 pm |

    First, as the guy who did design #1, let me say I really like designs 2 through 4, particularly #2. That’s not a vote, just a compliment. 😉
    Second, the space at the top of design #1 isn’t a bug, it’s a feature, as they say in computing. The top was intentionally left blank to put in text like, “Submit to,” “Judge for,” “Featured in,” and so on. Just so you know.

  2. Irradiatus's avatar Irradiatus | March 18, 2009 at 1:47 pm |

    Thanks Zen!
    You definitely have the appeal of simplicity (which is often better).
    Let me reiterate that everyone should feel free to suggest changes.
    I like #2 as well – the book sort of connects the digital aspect (101011100) with the print format of openlab – unfortunately the details of the lettering do not show up well in smaller sizes (which is why I made the simpler lettering of #4).

  3. bill's avatar bill | March 18, 2009 at 2:14 pm |

    Bora, is there a bookmarklet as well as a badge? If I had a “submit to OL($currentyear)” button on my browser toolbar I’d be far more likely to send in suggestions…

  4. Coturnix's avatar Coturnix | March 18, 2009 at 2:16 pm |

    I don’t know how to make one. Someone? Anyone? The link is:
    http://openlab.wufoo.com/forms/submission-form/

  5. Reed A. Cartwright's avatar Reed A. Cartwright | March 18, 2009 at 3:00 pm |

    I tried to do an autofill link for Openlab 2007, but wufoo didn’t support such tech back then. It might now, but I don’t know.

  6. bill's avatar bill | March 18, 2009 at 5:10 pm |

    Looks to me like a job for the LazyWeb: http://www.sennoma.net/main/archives/2009/03/one_for_all_you_javascript_wiz.php
    When that hits the biogang on FriendFeed, I’m hoping that you’ll get yourself a bookmarklet.

  7. cromercrox's avatar cromercrox | March 18, 2009 at 7:19 pm |

    I don’t like any of them very much. But hey, ignore me, I’m just spoiled by choice.

  8. Scicurious's avatar Scicurious | March 19, 2009 at 9:37 am |

    I like the top 3, but I think the last one kind of looks like THE FLAMING EYE OF SAURON COMPELS YOU TO SUBMIT TO OPENLAB. Not that that is a bad thing, really…

  9. Eva's avatar Eva | March 20, 2009 at 12:27 am |

    I find most of them TOOOO BIGGGGG!!! I like tiny buttons (117px wide)
    Design-wise, I like #1 and #3.

  10. Coturnix's avatar Coturnix | March 20, 2009 at 12:30 am |

    These are samples. The winner will be given in 3 or 4 different sizes, including tiny.