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Re: New homepage for LUGNET
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:23:29 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote:
   Someone brought this up at BrickFest PDX and others agreed it would be an excellent idea: Rather than mainly linking to internal LUGNET resources, the first thing someone should see when they visit the LUGNET homepage is iconic links to other major community sites and resources, for example FBTB, BZPower, 1000steine.de, BrickLink, BrikTrak, LDraw.org, Peeron, BrickSet, BrickShelf, LEGO.com, and so forth.

Accordingly, I would like to task the community to come up with a brand new homepage for LUGNET.

What kind of changes? I don’t mean a facelift to the existing homepage, but rather a complete redesign from the ground up. Anything goes. (Except excessive JavaScript and proprietary stuff like Flash.) Consider it a blank whiteboard.

If you have thoughts or a wishlist, please reply to this thread and add your ideas. If you have mad HTML skills, by all means put on that HTML cap and see what you can come up with. When you have something to share, post a link to it, solicit public critique, make improvements, and let’s see where that goes. Perhaps within a week we could have a honkin’ homepage that totally rules.

--Todd


Hi all,

I can’t offer my html knowledge - it’s only poor. But I like to suggest some ideas following up Todd’s ideas. An umbrella on a very first level might really be helpful. So users might got the chance to go their way while starting at lugnet.com.

If someone needs parts and set info, go to peeron, guide.lugnet, brickshelf, brickset .. If someone wants online interaction with other fans, he/she should be guided to the variour lugnet newsgroups and other internatinal boards. If someone needs information about community issues, he/she might find the calender of local/global events .. If someone needs building ideas, he/she could follow up to bricksonthebrain.com, ldraw.org, etc. If someone wants to shop, go to bricklink, ...

If you first dorp in, a selection of “your” language might be very helpful. Probably only on that first level. That might help to get an overview. As said, I can’t type code to realise this, but I might help with the translation into German.

As others mentioned allready, a follow up of recent stories, galleries, additions to peeron/brickshelf/etc. would be nice.

What about a counter on threads to show how often a posting is read in total? The German forum around computer issues http://www.spotlight.de offers such a feature. “This post has been viewed XX times.”

And: keep it simple, not to much flash or java script. Some companies might block these features.

Just some of my thoughts ...

-Holger (HoMa)



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(...) Ya, exactly! Some kind of attributes grid or "help me locate" or "what's out there" layout is needed. (...) Excellent, excellent, excellent idea. Yes! The homepage ought to have several languages available. (...) That could be something for (...) (20 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)

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Someone brought this up at BrickFest PDX and others agreed it would be an excellent idea: Rather than mainly linking to internal LUGNET resources, the first thing someone should see when they visit the LUGNET homepage is iconic links to other major (...) (20 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX) !! 

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