Option 1 — Above

Option 2 — Below

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Beth’s Notes:

More options for masthead below — Below

I’m only using the yellow as an example. Trying options to make the page more visually compelling. The logo is nice, let’s see if we can cause it to occupy the space in some different and compelling way. Could be you won’t like any of this, but it is how the creative process works. 🙂

And note, if we use any color as a background, it likely would force us to alter the colors (shades) of the tree graphic, and the text. If such color alteration is unacceptable in any form, then we should stop looking at the first couple of these samples below, and move to the ones highlighting the text with a color box instead.

The first one is screen split in half.

Beth’s Note:

Below is same as above, but screen elements split like a normal content and sidebar are… and that just may look nice given that is the format of how the blurbs of the articles and the ‘blog tools’ will be formatted below the masthead.

Beth’s Notes:

Below is unaltered logo on white background, and with the text boxed in WSU light brown color background.

Beth’s Notes:

Below is unaltered logo on white background, and with the text boxed in green leaf background.

I think this one is good!

I’ve also shown the articles list below the masthead. That seems pretty good. It seems to be the only option available to us at this point. I still can’t figure out how to display a single article while retaining the blog sidebar elements. Question for IT.