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hi.
for those of you who love progress... I have a few things to reveal that are
not ready for "real" announcement yet. I'm open to feedback as I work. (I know
how you guys *love* to provide feedback.. wink)
I started an Admin Help Wanted list:
http://news.lugnet.com/admin/helpwanted
part of the above includes a notebook page:
http://www.baseplate.com/lugnet/notes/magazine-outline.jpg
I'm pretty serious about this concept and want to talk to some people about how
we can work together.
The new homepage is in progress.. Only its basic layout is decided. Choice of
exact text, pretty pictures and links are yet to be hammered out. you're
looking at placeholders..
http://www.baseplate.com/lugnet/work/screen-1.jpg
currently I'm wondering:
do people really need a button to click when they initiate a search? or is
everyone like me and just hit Return? how many cool tools can I launch from the
homepage? should I really use CSS? how small can I make that type.. how often
can I realisticly update pretty content about the community? where can I stick
a 'latest posts' box, like we used to have? should I mention that we now have
members of 100 flags? (all 50 states, DC, and about 49? countries)... blah,
blah, blah...
LUGNET's CafePress shop, for sale of logo items, is setting-up anew. I've been
designing and ordering products.. trying to get colors adjusted and seeing what
kinda damage a dishwasher and clothes-dryer can do (rigorous testing!). So far,
the best looking items (quality of logo repro) are: a mousepad, ceramic tile,
tote bag. t-shirts are getting there, and the mugs are looking really bad. same
problems we had last time (few years ago). please don't try to buy anything!
side note: It's freaky that someone just posted about a licence-plate holder..
CP just made those available this week and I drew up a LUGNET one that said "my
other car is a 6-wide." I kid you not! We must all think alike.
A couple little changes in the set db, not sure anyone noticed.. now you can
click to view catalogs of that year (over at Kevin's site). And today we're
seeing about sorting search returns by year - a mini-feature I'm dying for.
I'm looking into some of the ideas that were suggested in admin.finance. No
great news yet.
There's more, that I can't post about. but hopefully this quick note will be
enough to give you some comfort that the wheel of LUGNET progress has fixed its
flat and we are moving forward, even if slowly.
please do not highlight this post. thanks
-Suz
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| (...) of (...) A few comments: My monitor is set for 1024 pixel width and I still have to scroll sideways to see everything. A lot of people are still on 800x600 even. Some of the labels on the button bar at the top say "LUGNET xxx" and some don't. (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Great work! About the search button question - I think that it would be a good idea to have a button, some people might feel lost without one. It's better to have an extra way to do something than to not have enough. A small suggestion: have a (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I would like a button. I really hate (for example, sorry Dan) peeron.com, where I type in a set number, then click "sets", and have to click back on the text field & hit enter. (...) My advice would be "restraint". The home page is more for (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| "LUGNET Admin" <suz@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:Gx9574.qt@lugnet.com... (...) of (...) is (...) from the (...) often (...) stick (...) have (...) blah, (...) The following are just my opinions, so don't be too offended by them... I think that (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Hi! (...) Woho! (...) I know of a great contact that is the cheapest, boasts the highest quality stuff and is the nicest guy. This is first hand, he is printing for my org. (...) Please explain this further... (...) Yeah! (...) Shoot. (...) To (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) programming and UI design effort, perhaps with the Market section? (...) A thought: This seems to me to have a lot in common with the Market idea. (...) newsgroups there. However I wouldn't recommend redesigning the whole thing, just add a (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) This looks really interesting. Is this intended to be a print mag? Or an e-zine? Either way, it looks very exciting. (...) It looks so very corporate. The design is almost too snazy. The clean lines, the co-ordinated colors. All very high (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jun-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) As many as will fit? What form did you want answers to this to take? (...) The mockups and the current page both have fine small print, but I wouldn't go much smaller. (...) In the blue Newsgroups sidebar. Move the 'newsgroups' header to the (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jun-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| Ahh! I am an annoying one I know. :) I am glad you are back Suz because I love sharing my 2 cents. Anyway, was the new frontpage design scrapped or still in dev? Just curious. I do webs sites and wouldn't mind helping if you want. Of course, this is (...) (22 years ago, 12-Nov-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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