[Clipart] new site design in progress

[Bryce Harrington]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> The edit link on e.g. Wikipedia is very different in character from
> our quick upload form, because it consists in many cases of just the
> word "edit" next to a section, or the phrase "edit this page" in an
> article's header or footer.  It does *not* consume more than a third
> of the browser window (more than half at small window sizes).
> 
> If we're going to keep the quick upload form permanently, it has *GOT*
> to take up less space.
> 
> We should maybe do this (redesign the quick-upload form to be smaller)
> now, as part of the site redesign.

Good points.  Looks like Rejon has achieved this size reduction in the
new site, without losing its visibility.  It's now smack in the middle
of the screen yet doesn't feel like it crowds anything else out.  I like
it. 

> One of the things that's slowing down the upload script considerably
> is the need to grab shell.php via http every time.  I should probably
> rewrite OpenClipart::Web so that it uses a cached copy more often, if
> not always.  That would mean we'd want some easier, more automatic way
> to update its cached copy, but it would be worth it.

That's a good idea.

Bryce