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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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| (...) If I remember right, the initial news rating system *was* 0-10, and it didn't work very well. Too many options, too much work. (...) I'm not sure this is a good thing. It can lead to a sort of "clique" of Famous Posters and interesting things (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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| (...) (snip) (...) I agree. (...) Great idea! I could help with the translation to French. (more seriously than I did for "schleim" at PDX with John Neal! ;D) (...) That would be interesting. (...) Pierre (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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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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| 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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| Hey, WOW! A new LUGNET site! :> This is GREAT. I like the one that is hear but a change can be good! Out of curiosity, what brought upon these interesting thoughts of changing the site? I design websites often, well actually almost everyday I am (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) I agree with Gary, except for one big thing. Precise CSS positioning that's cross-browser compatible (IE, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, Mac) is a pain royalé, sitting right next to impossible. I've done it and it's nuts. Unless you don't care if (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) I don't think that's off-topic at all, Gary. Kind of a side-topic, but definitely an important consideration. The more that can be done via CSS instead of dynamic content on the server, too, the better. --Todd (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) It may be off topic, but I think it would be very cool if the site was designed using CSS layout, i.e. no nested tables. A great example site is: (URL) would make site development very straightforward, and allow people to switch look and feels (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Ya, that's gotta stay. (...) It may not be broken to you, who are familiar with it and have been using it for years...but it's been pointed out by many that it can be quite confusing for first-time visitors. (...) Well, LUGNET was created to (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Wow, cool, I didn't know that! --Todd (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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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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| (...) Read those two sentences again. Someone already chooses them. Why not just grab two or three at random from that much smaller selection? Good idea though. It'd be good to see a parade of excellent models there on the homepage. (...) Another (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote: <schnipp> (...) <schnapp> (...) I'd rather like to see some more add-ons to the LUGNET newsgroups and a new frontpage than a complete redesign. The design of the newsgroups is excellent in both ways: (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) ZING! (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) I'm sorry to reply to my own post, but I forgot to add that CLSotW was a key player in the end of my dark ages (along with cheap promotional sets at Shell gas stations). Seeing all of these great creations by AFOLs made me want to dig my (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| A couple of ideas: 1. Classic-castle and FBTB both prominently feature admin-generated announcements on the front pages that are updated every day or so--new set announcments, contests, fests, etc (presumably other sites, too, these are just the (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman wrote: (snirp) (...) (snorp) (...) Whatever you do, don't replace the super-awesome Escheristic logo. Further, I'll voice my opinion that the homepage looks just fine and a complete overhaul isn't going to bring (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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