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Re: New homepage for LUGNET
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Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:18:45 GMT
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Hi,

Some clarifications below...

--Todd


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.

This could also be on a “tab” or something someone selects on the homepage, rather than the very first things someone sees.

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

To clarify this, I meant for there to be submissions and proposals, exchange of ideas, and critiques of mock-ups, etc., involving anyone who wanted to put something forth.

However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that Suzanne’s future prototype page would be thrown out. In fact, what she came up with there is quite excellent, and the best thing we have so far. The question in my mind is whether or not something else would serve better? Perhaps, and perhaps not.

   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.

And by this I meant: feel free to post proposals/ideas. We’re not looking first for a graphic designer and then for ideas from that person. We’re simply looking for ideas, and anyone is free to submit ideas.

I think Suzanne will probably make the final call on the homepage, if she feels like getting involved.

   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



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(...) SNIP (...) I tried to come up with a few simplified & fun designs for pages, my fave being this (within this thread, but linked so you don't have to wade thru posts again): (URL) one of the great suggestions i got was that the images may be a (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)

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