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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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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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(...) 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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(...) Correct - but all readers of English go left to right. Those that read Hebrew may go right to left, but they won't be doing that here (and if they are it serves them right to be confused). (...) Thanks for posting those. I'll look into it. (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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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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(...) You do realise there's nothing *natural* about that? Not even half the worlds population read text in the direction we happen to be using. Also, with the way most advertisements show up on pages, many people tend to ignore both the left and (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Sure. The only stuff that's online at the moment: The logo for Bill Swanberg of Bartering The Brick: (URL) A collection of practice ads done for a ficitious company: (URL) And the RoboticsResources.com logo: (URL) I have a bunch of small stuff (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Nnnooooooo... ;] Here's the deal: I used to be an avid LUGNET poster, but due to a lot of issues not related to LUGNET or LEGO I had to shelve the hobby for about 2 years. I'm now trickling back to it, at least the purchasing part of the (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general) !
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(...) Also, on a practical level, doing redirects (not just DNS records) as subdomains would be prohibitively expensive with the current Lugnet hosting arrangement. (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi Mike - Glad to hear you're interested! I'm curious, could you link us to some of your past work? -Tim (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Absolutely! At 1000steine.de you can submit links too: (URL) I have to accept all links and it's not uncommon, that somebody submits links that has really nothing to do with LEGO. So I can delete them before they're public. Leg Godt! René (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Added, to their own group at the bottom. So they're not necessarily lowest priority :-) Bedtime. -Tim (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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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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(...) Too much grunt work. The technical solution is too easy not to implement. (...) I agree that anyone should be able to submit a link for consideration, but I believe (strongly) that an administrator should have to approve links to be publicly (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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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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(...) Wouldn't it be just easier to share the info with those pages? (...) yahoo.lugnet.org? ;-)) Just why 'admins'? Let everybody add anything, let others vote, let others veto. Add autotools for periodical link checking. Let the person who added (...) (21 years ago, 20-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Here's a few more of mine. These are entirely newsgroup features, and aren't necessarily high priority _or_ easy. But I would like to see 'em get into at least the bottom of the wishlist somewhere. -- Display identity-images (avatars, or (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) Excellent. I just did a homepage image count and found six, including the BrickFest logo. If we were to have button links for a bunch of major sites, this could get heavy fast. That's why I aimed at 100KB - but the lower the better. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Great list. Makes it much easier to summarize ideas and thoughts. Thanks for putting that together. (...) I have no experience with the LUGNET stuff but I've worked with CSS before. I'll volunteer as your graphic designer. -Mike (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) OK, I went through the thread and compiled suggestions, and roughly prioritized them. The prioritization is based on my opinion of importance combined with feasibility. So, something important might appear lower simply because I know it will (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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