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| | | In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote: SNIP (...) SNIP (...) well, it's not ALL a complete redesign, as i like the easy spotlight bar on the left-the rest is brand spankin new. This hexagonal brick design was originally going to be my webpage (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Erik Bush
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| | | | | Well, this looks really "busy" and crowded. Erik Bush (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Erik Olson
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| | | | | No, the first thing a first-time visitor sees should tell something about the available places to go -- not display only icons. Icons are not language, they are little puzzles that you have to figure out. (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | (...) Ow, my brain! In seriousness, one of the problems with this design is difficulty of expansion. If some new vital site comes out, where does it fit in? (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Jeff Szklennik
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| | | | | (...) TRY # 2 colors, bricks, poll, expandibility (could get taller as i made it 800x600 to start-this made it a little tight, but can easily be remedied) (URL) Enjoy Jeff (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | | (...) I don't mean to be rude at all, but this is way too image-intensive and busy. The goal here is making a main page that's easy to follow for new users - if I were a new user, I would not know how to navigate this site. .02 -Tim (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Kyle D. Jackson
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| | | | | | (...) Ayiee, mine eyes!! ;] I find it overwhelming. One of the trends that I notice in home page design is that people are increasingly trying to link to every single page of their site's content (and affiliate sites' content) from the home page. (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) If I remember the musings from near Lugnet's beginning, this is sort of intentional -- the logo is specifically not a Lego brick to avoid all risk of confusion with being an official site. Maybe that's not such a worry at this point. (...) Now (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Jeff Szklennik
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| | | | | | (...) SNIP (...) Peeron.com has a random piece of the day feature Jeff (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) By itself, having a random piece is slightly interesting. But a specifically-picked "Cool Brick of the Week" could be a lot more -- history of that part, some suggestions of non-obvious building techniques, examples of (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Man am I behind in my reading/posting. The Spacers have a Seed Part of the Month... it seems to generate some (a LOT OF!) neat creations. Not all seed parts are "cool", IIRC, some were chosen to be "challenging" to incorporate, so maybe it's a (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Steve Scott
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| | | | | | (...) I've been thinking about this for a while myself. It's a great way to stimulate both creativity and lateral thinking! May I suggest "Tricky Bricks Incorporated" and propose the small rubber band holder as the first contender: (URL) should be (...) (21 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Jeff Szklennik
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| | | | Try # 3 thanks for all the imput. I tried to make it less busy, & identify the major groups of stuff for newbies. the left, top, and right 'bars' are the same, as i think they work well on the current site, i just spruced em up a bit (URL) enjoy!, (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Jeff Szklennik
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| | | | | In lugnet.admin.general, Jeff Szklennik wrote: Try # 4 even simpler (URL) enjoy!, comments encouraged Jeff (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Mike Thorn
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| | | | | | (...) Jeff, While this latest version is indeed simpler, it still has one thing to it: it's image-heavy. People on dialup on a slow day are going to get frustrated while they sit there waiting for a bunch of big graphics to load. In my mind, it (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Jeff Barnas
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| | | | | (...) Heres my Idea! I know it doesnt look much different -- Jeff The small “MY LUGNET” lego smiley referrs to this post (2 URLs) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | (...) I think it'd be good if people's ideas use (URL) as a base. (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | | | (...) I agree. -Tim (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Jeff Barnas
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| | | | | | (...) Sorry about my repitiveness but heres the pictures again because they havent worked Heres my Idea! I know it doesnt look much different -- Jeff The small “MY LUGNET” lego smiley referrs to this post (2 URLs) this is my second idea (URL) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET —Orion Pobursky
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| | | | (...) You designs are good but the problem I have with them is color, too much of it to be specific. Notice how LUGNET's current main page is all one color theme with localized centers of other colors. This, to me, is more pleasing to the eye than (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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