Forums: Haha. Jon has spoken. Ok I trust him on having no forums. In a way this mailing list is like a forum but has better communication. I know I'm not used to the mailing list, but I've become used to them. At first I treated this list as a forum, and I think I pissed some people off earlier. Sorry about that. :) In any case, I'll drop the forums subject for now, but it'll stay in the back of my head. I'll talk again to Jon in the future about them If I can find a good alternative communication mode that he's happy with. Nav Structure + help pages Ok Michi, I'll draft them up and give them to you. My idea for the submenus was to have links in the help box on the right-side. I prefer hard links to drop down menus (any form of css or JS.) Let's have a good look at where these buttons can go. NOT-normal buttons on the sidebar sounds good, but a text link would do just as well... maybe... The Volunteer?/Teamwork? page is coming along. I'll have that to you shortly. I know I've been saying it lots lately but it's true :) You'll get it. The "Help" page is also being worked on...and "About" all at the same time :D:D Have a good weekend folks! I've got my Airforce test today. I haven't been able to sleep since 3am this morning im so excited. <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Jon Phillips <<a href="mailto:jon@rejon.org">jon@rejon.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">No forums. forums are the death of many a community...we are doing well keeping on this and no reason to break it. I can rant onwards about why forums are not good, but I will just say, trust me. Better to keep communications together now on this list rather than break apart into a lot of pieces on a forum. Jon <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Greg Bulmash <<a href="mailto:oneminuteinspirations@gmail.com">oneminuteinspirations@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Aaron Bowler wrote: >> Do you think "Volunteer" is a bit hash -- "Help Us" and a roll over of >> "Would you like to help the site?" would be a little less formal. > > For the sake of usability, you don't want to mix the meanings of "Help". > > Adrian's suggestion of "Get Involved" is a better substitute for > "Volunteer," though Oleg made a good point that "Volunteer" keeps a > consistency of one-word labels. If you're going to get away from > one-word-labels, "Join The Team" would work as well. > >> p.s Would it ever be possible to have a forum installed on the site? -- >> phpbb is free -- and it keeps everything together, and would be much >> easier for newbies like me. I've no experiance in using wikis and this >> email service, i think i've missed a lot going into my junk mail :-( > > My main experience with PHPBB has been as an attack vector through which > friends' servers/sites were hacked. Adding PHPBB means someone has to > not only install it, but be in charge of keeping it updated and patched > as security holes emerge. As those holes emerge, hackbots start probing > the net for them. You can be hacked faster than you think. > > Nothing personal, but considering PHPBB's history combined with the fact > that whomever volunteers to install and patch PHPBB now might be too > busy to keep up with it a few months from now, I think installing PHPBB > is too risky. > > Once again, have to agree with Adrian here. Letting an outside service > provider administer a web interface to the list is a better option. > > - Greg > > _______________________________________________ > clipart mailing list > <a href="mailto:clipart@lists.freedesktop.org">clipart@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart</a> > </div></div>-- Jon Phillips <a href="http://rejon.org/" target="_blank">http://rejon.org/</a> +1.415.830.3884 (sf/global) +86 132-6817-8381 (china) <div><div></div><div class="h5">_______________________________________________ clipart mailing list <a href="mailto:clipart@lists.freedesktop.org">clipart@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Cheers Chovynz