Design and Layout Suggestions

[Nick]

I think colors are safe to share. A login info page would be cool. Should that be a drupal page with strict access rights, or a custom php page with a password of sports. I am sure the drupal stuff has been tested more extensively then anything I would wright.

[Nick]

I added (yet another) a module to allow specific taxonomy terms to be set to off limits. I will set a section term called 'Internal' to not allow access to anyone but admins. Any pages you want to be private just add them to that term.

Alternately there is another module that allows for page by page control of access rights. And then there is also an ACL module.....

Update: For the record this is an example of bad documentation http://drupal.org/node/31601 . Referencing that you do something 'like apace' does NOT count as documenting it. There are terms and options that the module uses that are barely even mentioned there. PLUS the module itself only uses one letter abbreviation for there terms with NO KEY. Uggg. Sometimes I hate unix/linux people. Trying to make everyone else feel dumb by purposely making things impossible to learn to use, unless that is you already know how. 
Even though it looks like a solution I might not use it, as I don't want to explain to everyone how to use it. Unless you off hand know what A, I, D all mean, and more specifically what they do.  Grrrrr.

[zourtney]

 
[suppressing the urge to reference immunity disorders]

[zourtney]

I've been moving the boards around a little bit, trying to remove dead boards and merging them in with more active ones. Let me know if you hate it.

The Motors and Photography boards are pretty dead, but I don't want to delete them...we just need to talk [photo]shop more, I suppose.

[Nick]

Fall/winter oriented site banners/ banner side images (the trees and the green wispies?) Having season-specific visuals is always a little cheesy, yet more then a little nice. I have some that I made awhile ago, you guys should make some too!

[zourtney]

Totally. Whip up some banner and let's see them! I'd like to see some snow covered tree art.

[Nick]

A little refresh of an oldy but goody (that never got used for anything)

[zourtney]

Nice, I like. Good job with the snow, too

[zourtney]

Have I ever mentioned that I dislike the login box? I think we should go for an upper-right corner type of login button. Like most of the rest of the webbernets do.

[Nick]

Agreed. There are allot of little things on the site that I don't like, that being one of them, this are still there because I don't know of anything better or am not sure how to change it. But that should be easy to move. I think one can disable the login-block and then add some theme information for where it is to show up. But I will have to do some reading to be sure of how to do it.

[zourtney]

I know it would be simple to hack something together, but I probably wouldn't do it "right." There is a lot I don't understand about Drupal theming.

[Nick]

Another idea for logos for the lands. Sorry if its a little rough, I am on the third day running with a constant headache and ear-pressure.

[Nick]

Another idea...

Continuing with the logo that sits atop the forums now, would people like a full length field of snow to span the logo/banner/header (what should we call it?) area? We could change out the green wispies for some snow and green trees for a few months. 

[zourtney]

Yeah, that'd be cool. Maybe have the snow and a few scattered trees peppering that top banner. Maybe sit the whole thing atop the "news" dividing bar.

I liked your mountain above, but the scattered trees seem a litle less epic and "infinity"...in a good way. Seems hom[l?]ier.

EDIT: nevermind about sitting it on that bar. I forgot about the "Get Out. See Green" subtitle

[zourtney]

Also, I notice that when I switch between the forums and the main site, the main site's coloring seems awefully bland. I don't know if it's the drab greens or what. There's discontinuity between them, though many, many sites are like that...