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KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Thu

Oct 4
2007

20:19Z

And now I'll have to kill you.

http://www.phoenyx.net/fudge/template/radar.html

Not sure I like the phoenix's feetsies. And not having wings. (He has wings, and a tail, you just can't see them.)

Also, not sure I like the filled-in P. But I went to clip the eye out for a favicon (the 15x15 graphic you see by your favorites/bookmarks, and on the tab if you use Firefox), and it turned out to look like a rotated white P on a dark gray background, with the counter filled in red. And I thought that might be an interesting icon, but I can't see where making the "p" white on dark gray will work in that layout.

Of course, none of this will make sense until you go look, and after that I'll have to kill you.

(Don't click any links, they're pointing to the wrong server and will )

Hmm. Maybe if I put dice in the feetsies...

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Chuk
Chuk Goodin

Thu

Oct 4
2007

20:42Z

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On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 08:19:09PM +0000, Karen Cravens wrote:

http://www.phoenyx.net/fudge/template/radar.html

Not sure I like the phoenix's feetsies. And not having wings. (He has wings, and a tail, you just can't see them.)

I like how it looks, but I feel that it needs wings to be a real phoenix. I'm not sure where you would put them though. (I have a Graphic Design skill of Abysmal, too, so don't ask me to do it.)

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CarlCravens
Carl D Cravens

Thu

Oct 4
2007

21:01Z

And now I'll have to kill you.

Chuk Goodin wrote:

I like how it looks, but I feel that it needs wings to be a real phoenix. I'm not sure where you would put them though.

I think I agree here... it needs at least the suggestion of fiery wings. Not much to differentiate it from a dragon in this view.

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KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Thu

Oct 4
2007

21:29Z

And now I'll have to kill you.

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Carl Cravens wrote:

Not much to differentiate it from a dragon in this view.

This is a problem?

This is the full critter. With a fixed right foot, I think. I haven't exported that to the color version, though.

http://www.phoenyx.net/fudge/template/phoenix.gif

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CarlCravens
Carl D Cravens

Thu

Oct 4
2007

22:23Z

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Karen Cravens wrote:

This is a problem?

It is to me. :) I like dragons, but this is a phoenix.

This is the full critter. With a fixed right foot, I think. I haven't exported that to the color version, though.

Purty. Is that your work?

What if you faded out the right (your, not its) wing similar to how you've done the feet and run it behind the text? It'd have to be pretty faint, but I think it could be pretty faint and still do the job.

You might have to rescale it to get the feet in the right place. But I'm think you may need to anyway, those feet look like it's making an awkward maneuver when they're scrunched up there.

Reverse the order of the columns and let the faded-out tail hang down into the menu, too. Would complicate your CSS nicely, too. :)

I dunno about the red-in-the-P... my eye is drawn to it first, and I think my eye should be drawn to the graphic first, which puts me in the right place to begin reading the title. The red drops me into the middle of the title and then I have to back up. The tension makes it hard to decide where my eyes should rest. (Can you tell Karen and I have actually studied graphic design and page layout? It's a handy hobby to have had all these years in this day when everybody is an amateur publisher.)

I like the overall look, though. It's spare but striking.

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KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Fri

Oct 5
2007

02:03Z

And now I'll have to kill you.

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Carl Cravens wrote:

It is to me. :) I like dragons, but this is a phoenix.

Yeah, but I like dragons better.

(For those who haven't been with us since the 1980's: the Phoenix (as it was spelled until the 1200-baud modem incident) was so named because it, uh, crashed and burned a lot. And "dragon" was seriously overworked in BBS names back then.)

Okay, okay. The old logo has a snakey benu neck, but I don't think that works here. Updated. No more feetsies.

The full critter (or at least one wing) will probably find its way onto the Phoenyx main page.

Purty. Is that your work?

Yeah. The full critter needs work, once I decided to zoom in on the head I kind of left it. The eye feathers need to be more flamey, and the wings are symmetrical right now and nothing else is.

Reverse the order of the columns and let the faded-out tail hang down into the menu, too. Would complicate your CSS nicely, too. :)

Eh. I like having text in the central column.

I dunno about the red-in-the-P... my eye is drawn to it first, and I think my

Yeah, like I said, it came from the eye thing and that's just not working for me.

I like the overall look, though. It's spare but striking.

A trilobite cookie to whoever recognizes the inspiration, at least for the skinny column with user/date info.

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MikeF
Mike Feldhusen

Fri

Oct 5
2007

19:19Z

And now I'll have to kill you.

It is to me. :) I like dragons, but this is a phoenix.

Yeah, but I like dragons better.

Yeah, we know. :-)

Okay, okay. The old logo has a snakey benu neck, but I don't think that works here. Updated. No more feetsies.

I thought the feet we kinda neat myself, once I realized what they were. A wing (or part of one) would have been nice too.

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KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Fri

Oct 5
2007

19:34Z

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On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Mike Feldhusen wrote:

I thought the feet we kinda neat myself, once I realized what they were. A wing (or part of one) would have been nice too.

Yeah, but it's a bit contorted for him to get them up into view, and they really are too ambiguous without the clues of the rest of the body. But like I said, the whole critter will find its way onto a [semi-]splash page.

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KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Sat

Oct 6
2007

04:09Z

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Okay, the feet are back, and the phoenix has better hair now.

The wing is there, but it needs work. You can't tell, but it has the feathers from the Corellian phoenix, sort of.

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MikeF
Mike Feldhusen

Sun

Oct 7
2007

04:55Z

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Okay, the feet are back, and the phoenix has better hair now.

The wing is there, but it needs work. You can't tell, but it has the feathers from the Corellian phoenix, sort of.

Looks good in my opinion at least.

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CarlCravens
Carl D Cravens

Thu

Oct 4
2007

22:28Z

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Karen Cravens wrote:

This is the full critter. With a fixed right foot, I think. I haven't exported that to the color version, though.

This week's shirt.woot Derby is cryptozoology. (Thunderbird doesn't know that word. Ironic.) You should enter.

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KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Fri

Oct 5
2007

02:04Z

And now I'll have to kill you.

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Carl Cravens wrote:

This week's shirt.woot Derby is cryptozoology. (Thunderbird doesn't know that word. Ironic.) You should enter.

I'm going to guess that they have rights requirements that would conflict with our using it as a trademark.

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TimHall
Tim Hall

Thu

Oct 4
2007

21:06Z

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Karen Cravens wrote:

Of course, none of this will make sense until you go look, and after that I'll have to kill you.

Hey! I never agreed to those stakes!!

I like the overall design, feetsies or not. (Should the Favicon be a dF rather than a d6?)

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KarenCravens
Karen Cravens

Thu

Oct 4
2007

21:44Z

And now I'll have to kill you.

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Tim Hall wrote:

I like the overall design, feetsies or not.

(Should the Favicon be a dF rather than a d6?)

The favicon started out as a test, and it never went away.

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