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Re: New homepage for LUGNET
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Date: 
Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:49:04 GMT
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Kyle D. Jackson <missioncontrol@sympatico.deletethisspamblock.ca> wrote:
However Jeff's ideas did highlight one interesting thing to me.  The
current LUGNET home page doesn't feature a single brick (permanently)
anywhere on the page.  To me the 2x4 brick is the universal icon of
this hobby, but there's no prominent (yet unobtrusive) brick near
the top of the home page.  Other than the minifigs on the side,

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.


Heck, if you wanna get fancy, how about a "Brick of the Week" feature as
well??  :]  (A different brick each week, could even link to a little
write-up with a suggested list of uses...)

Now that's a cool idea! I'd love to see a series of articles like that.



--
Matthew Miller           mattdm@mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>



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  Re: New homepage for LUGNET
 
(...) 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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(...) 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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