The only thing I'd comment on is.... The global network for Diamond Harmour?
Surely you should be a .net.nz ? -----Original Message----- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 30 March 2005 9:06 p.m. To: CLUG Subject: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please Me and the boss've taken over the community website for Diamond Harbour, and have completely rebuilt it. The thing is, between us, we're a bit short on any kind of artistic knowledge ( and, in my case, talent ). Here's the tenuous bit. The whole site is run using the etomite cms ( http://etomite.org ), and all software used to generate everything on the site is open source. The banner image is 12 stitched together with hugin, and the colour balance fixed with enblend ( both http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/... and thanks for the pointers Chris ), than scaled down from the 10,000 pixel wide result to something that fits onto a screen with convert. We even got up the gondola half price to get the piccies in the first place - good blag! The Weather image is info taken from the metar info on the noaa site decoded with some php wot I wrote ( it's a really good scripting language as well, you know ), and then embedded into a webcam image ( ftp'd from the camera ) using convert again. Even the camera is OSS, with a 48mm polarising filter gaffer taped onto the end of a 30mm lens! Server is LAMP based. I also use bbclone ( .de ) to monitor the page hits ( which are mainly search engines at the moment! ). Can anyone give any constructive advice - my skin's pretty thick - on how to make it look better? I've got versions with menu bars across the top ( selected in bold doesn't work as the options then keep moving cos it's wider... ) instead of down the side, all kinds of permutations like that. But I think the real problem is that we know nothing about colour theory, and it won't take too much effort from a knowledgeable type to get the fonts the right colour, size, font... Any takers? We've done all this for nothing, others have donated the webspace, and so on. All suggestions would be gratefully received - including how to promote it better, although I think/hope that may just be a matter of time? Cheers, Steve http://www.diamondharbour.net http://www.diamondharbour.net/bbclone
