oo, glad placebo won, but where did this globe come from? It wasn't in the Voting Round #2 :?
Its quite nice, but doesn't really show the wideness of widescreen.
It is a modification of the logo we've had for a while. While there was a lot a liked about each of the logos submitted, none of them completely fit the bill.
Chris's had
great style, and fit in the site well, but looked like an older CRT monitor. I tried changing the aspect to a more WS ratio, but it didn't quite look right. Would make a great shirt though
Placebo's was great as well, but I had implementation issues on getting it to layer behind the banners and left-nav like I wanted.
Paddy's had a nice tech/gaming aspect, but I had the same implementation issues.
Johnny's was good as well, but it would have to be re-worked (which I don't have time for at the moment) in a higher res. And, I love the retro aspect of the joystick. We might still look at it in the future. Especially for a shirt, or if the site is re-designed.
A number of people on the IRC, and in the Insider chat we had on this, liked the globe. They like how it represented the WW aspect of the forum membership, and didn't want to loose it. Since the "cog" didn't really represent WS (though it did represent the "work" we do on getting games to work, at lesat to me), I removed it. And, the animation took up a ton of bandwidth.
So, I just decided to tweak what we had, while I work with Paddy (and some of the entrants) on a more permanent solution.