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On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:40:45AM -0500, Curtis Napier wrote: |
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> If there are no more outstanding issues reported I will submit this |
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> current layout for approval. |
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there's still a ton of wasted space in the purple bar ... if that was |
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tightened up, more news could be displayed ... having the last two or |
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three news items on the front page is pretty helpful imo and would |
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help to offset all the space created by the large ad sidebar |
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> The artwork is all part of the winning design. Any issues with the |
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> infinity symbol should have been addressed a year ago. |
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well it clearly wasnt, might as well cover it now before the site goes |
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live ... as i pointed out, considering its location, this means that |
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our new logo basically becomes gentoo with an infinity sign |
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> I actually implemented a search that used google much like the example |
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> that was posted here. The search was discussed at length with the |
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> project lead and it was decided that using a third party search engine |
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> such as google was unacceptable. |
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why ? we all know google is great and the implementation would be both |
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cheap and quite usable |
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> Gentoo is a not-for-profit but, |
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> unfortunetly, it is the wrong kind of non-profit so Google will not |
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> sponsor us. |
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i dont see why a simple form redirect to google would require any sort |
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of sponsorship ... the thread fork to hardware at google was weird |
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anyways |
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> *all extraneous information and decorative news headers were removed |
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> from the front page to help readability and to bring focus to the |
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> information. This includes the cow image and text. Overwhelming amounts |
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> of information on the front page should no longer be a problem. This |
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> also brings the jumppads closer to the top so new users will be better |
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> able to spot them. |
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seems like everything was cut ... now the frontpage is just a simple |
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site index page ? i liked the simple cow/about blurb myself |
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-mike |
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