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(...) Sorry about my repitiveness but heres the pictures again because they havent worked Heres my Idea! I know it doesnt look much different -- Jeff The small “MY LUGNET” lego smiley referrs to this post (2 URLs) this is my second idea (URL) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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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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(...) Man am I behind in my reading/posting. The Spacers have a Seed Part of the Month... it seems to generate some (a LOT OF!) neat creations. Not all seed parts are "cool", IIRC, some were chosen to be "challenging" to incorporate, so maybe it's a (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) You designs are good but the problem I have with them is color, too much of it to be specific. Notice how LUGNET's current main page is all one color theme with localized centers of other colors. This, to me, is more pleasing to the eye than (...) (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) I agree. -Tim (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) I think it'd be good if people's ideas use (URL) as a base. (21 years ago, 22-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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How about a page that we create ourselves out of options that are kept ion a cookie? Let me explain. The first time you come to Lugnet, you get a general page welcoming you and with a clear menu to personnalize the front page. When you go to the (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hi, Some clarifications below... --Todd (...) This could also be on a "tab" or something someone selects on the homepage, rather than the very first things someone sees. (...) To clarify this, I meant for there to be submissions and proposals, (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Jeff, While this latest version is indeed simpler, it still has one thing to it: it's image-heavy. People on dialup on a slow day are going to get frustrated while they sit there waiting for a bunch of big graphics to load. In my mind, it (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I just picked Hebrew as an example. :) While I agree that we should be aiming for international compliance, I think there's only so far that we can go. It would not be a good thing to just align everything down the centre of the page to make (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Heres my Idea! I know it doesnt look much different -- Jeff The small “MY LUGNET” lego smiley referrs to this post (2 URLs) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Only Hebrew reads right-to-left? Huh! Last time I checked, Arabic (which is somewhat common in the world?), is also written right-to-left. And if Lugnet wants to be international, it should take that into consideration along with other (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jeff Szklennik wrote: Try # 4 even simpler (URL) enjoy!, comments encouraged Jeff (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) By itself, having a random piece is slightly interesting. But a specifically-picked "Cool Brick of the Week" could be a lot more -- history of that part, some suggestions of non-obvious building techniques, examples of (...) (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general)
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(...) posting a .dat file at: (URL) server automatically generates an image (see thumbnails at ldraw.org). thx, w. (21 years ago, 21-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, lugnet.general, FTX)
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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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