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Re: Unified UK Lego Web Page/Community?
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lugnet.loc.uk
Date: 
Mon, 29 Nov 1999 19:12:31 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.uk, Richard Franks writes:
> Cool! It appears that I've stumbled across something already thought of :)

It's mine - you can't have it!! :-0

> By pane do you mean table or frame? Do you mean that if you clicked upon a
> entertainer web-site link, then it would appear in the bottom frame, with the
> UKLUG top frame remaining?

I mean a version 3 compliant frame.  Tables were just too difficult for what I
want to create.

> This sounds good! Maybe shopping could move from the top bar to the left panel
> as well?

I'll create a working mock-up to demostrate what I mean.

> Lets see how well my brain works this early in the morning, and if I can
> integrate the spotlight-hierarchy idea :) How does this look?
> -Shopping
> -Static Information - Busy Bee, Entertainer, etc;
> -Links to (x) last spotlighted shopping reports
>  -breakdown to countries, and then regions, poss not as far as towns/cities
>  -Stuart Curtis had a cool idea which could fit right here
> -Events
> -LegoFESTs
>  -Current (Details, directions, trading info etc)
>  -Past (reviews, stories, pictures etc)
> -Local (shouldn't need too much of a hierarchy for this)
> -People
> -Entire List
> -Hierarchy by country, region and/or Smiley Map
> -Lego Contacts
> 
> Where ever the hierarchy is mentioned, I'm thinking of something inspired by
> Lugnet where if you selected Scotland, you'd see shops in Strathclyde and
> Lothian (etc), and if you selected Lothian you'd see fewer shops, and if there
> was an Edinburgh to click upon you'd probably just see those shops in
> Edinburgh.
> If some geographical hierarchy is implemented then it'd be nice to select an
> area, and be able to see the shops and people nearby.

Sounds good but that would take ages to implement - unless someone else wants
to take it - make it a group effort.

> Although, is this the sort of thing that Lugnet would ultimately want to
> achieve?

Unknown.

> Is there any other type of information that should be on the site, that we
> haven't thought of yet?

Probably, it'll evolve.

> I have to admit that I can't quite picture loc.uk getting swamped with
> messages, and obviously the thing you want to avoid is *missing* out on
> something important because you didn't subscribe to some more localised group!
> The website will hopefully contain most of the vital information..

Well we should just ban the US imposters subscribed to our newsgroup that'll
cut down the traffic.

> Do freenames allow cgi - or can they redirect to another site that does? • Useful
> for things like showing all people in Ireland who want to trade trains.

Unknown, haven't signed up yet.

Carbon 60



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Unified UK Lego Web Page/Community?
 
(...) I do hope that comment was a joke. I've spent periods subscribed to lugnet.loc.de (the German group) just to get the language practice - I'd not be amused if I was described as an imposter and told I wasn't welcome there because I don't live (...) (27 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
  Re: Unified UK Lego Web Page/Community?
 
(...) Could you elaborate on that, please? What exactly are you driving at? (27 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
  Re: Unified UK Lego Web Page/Community?
 
(...) Hey! I resent that remark. I'm not an imposter, I'm a gen-u-ine US citizen. Steve (27 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)

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  Re: Unified UK Lego Web Page/Community?
 
(...) Cool! It appears that I've stumbled across something already thought of :) (...) By pane do you mean table or frame? Do you mean that if you clicked upon a entertainer web-site link, then it would appear in the bottom frame, with the UKLUG top (...) (27 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)

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