Forum:Redesign of banner templates

I know it's a bit soon to bring this up after the last template discussion, but that discussion didn't really address much in the way of the continuity banners (Archie, Sonic the Comic and so on), except to give them slightly rounded corners.

I have a growing dissatisfaction with our current continuity banners (which I feel comfortable saying, as I was the one who largely designed them). The point is that the continuity banners indicate which continuity/universe the article is about. Unlike work-in-progress banners like Incomplete and Missing Picture, the continuity banners are a part of the content of the page; they'll never be removed after an issue is sorted, because there isn't an issue to be sorted.

I therefore believe that a coloured lump in the centre-top of the page isn't suitable. Instead, I want to replace it with something that indicate the all-encompassing nature of the banner: the entire article is perceived in a different way because of what the banner says. The Realworld template on the Star Trek wiki is interesting, because it's placed above the title of the article, but that involves clever javascript that I don't yet sufficiently understand. Even so, I've had a go at designing something new, and I'd like the community's thoughts before proceding.


 * Current template.
 * Proposed new template.

What do you think? It spans the whole width of the page, whichever skin you use. It's got rounded corners at the top (you might not be able to see this in all browsers - if not, let me now), but fades to transparency at the bottom, to indicate that it's not separate from the article content, but inextricably linked to it. -- Supermorff (talk) 09:41, May 6, 2013 (UTC)