> On 20020206.1732, Bob Miller said ... > > Rob Hudson wrote: > > > I was playing with a design from oswd.org, and threw this up a few > > days ago. Not sure about it but have a look... > > http://www.euglug.org/new/ > > I like the subtle lines and boxes. > > Three things. > > 1. Overall, I like it. I especially like the light gray, unoutlined > boxes. The following suggestions are minor things.
The way it sits, it is a complete copy of what was found on oswd.org, except I made a text changes to get an idea of how it might look for our purposes. The original is here: http://www.oswd.org/viewdesign.phtml?id=473 > 2. It's completely devoid of graphics. It should have *something* > beyond text and boxes. The big "euglug.org" in the upper left > renders very differently in Netscape 4 than in Mozilla. How about > replacing that with an image, and rounding or fading the top left > corner above it? Yup. We'll need a logo for it, definitely. > 3. I don't like the way the mailing list archive is presented. The > individual messages are too hard to distinguish. Could you maybe > either truncate them to a single line or render them in alternating > colors? A smaller font would be good, too. I don't like it either. :) > 4. (Did I say three?) the Navy blue at the top isn't doing anything > for me. Maybe lighten/desaturate it to somewhere around #225599 or > use a contrasting color like #ff694c. Or maybe leave that box > white and borderless. For something completely different, check > out http://www.jogger-egg.com/euglug-new.html (just the color > scheme of the top bar. The rest of the page is neither complete > nor new nor different.) I was also picturing something like the mozilla.org header to fill the top space, with a penguin and something Eugene-ish -- like a skyline across the top or something very subtle. And the title of our group with the city on the right, as the bar just underneath. Any graphics gurus here? :) > > Scripting language? I'm a PHP guy, and I know there are some Python > > folks among us. I'll try to get both of those working on the new box > > so more people can contribute. > > Perl too? Can the 3 co-exist all at one time with Apache? I know you probably don't want to compile all 3 into apache -- maybe just the primarily used one and have the others as CGI. I've compiled PHP & mod_perl together into apache, but each child process takes up a lot of memory that way. -- Rob <rob_at_euglug_dot_net> my @euglugCode = qw(v+++ e--- eug+ bsd+++ gnu+ S+++);
