Forest BB

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I am not into compromising over the aesthetic design of the website. There should be a design and it should be accepted by the web team, and implemented as such. The current site design is a bastardised version of a design i suggested last year (i was not happy about that then, and i am not happy ab...

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joachim wrote: That's kinda hard in that I don't know what you mean by 'beautiful'.

I know what beautiful is.

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yeah do a doodle poll!

for this week, midday, 3pm or 7pm everyday i can do all except wednesday.

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definitely used to be able to. probably it is just a click away for an admin to return that power.

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why are these options disabled? i want to be do these, i used to be able to, bring em back!

Chris x

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It is important that the forest site is great looking and fast! One reason for this is that I am currently approaching a number of external organisations who know nothing about forest, all they have to go by is our website. Currently I find this rather embarrassing, and I feel it gives us a bad impr...

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hey Joachim and Milk! I don't quite get it! By your own admission neither of you are designers, but both like the awesome power of drupal. So why are you changing the style of the current site, when you are not working to any design? it seems i agree with chombee again, and either you have to go the...

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Why not do it this week? 3 weeks seems a very long time to have to wait.

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hey Joachim! nice to "see" you on the bb! i have a response to this point: On a more aesthetic point, I'm not sure how skeletons say The Forest. It's also going to get a bit tired after a few months, so we would need a new one of these on a fairly regular basis. Iif you look earlier in this thread, ...

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Mike? I would appreciate it if you would reconsider you patronising tone, until your involvement in this discussion everyone has been fairly respectful and pleasent to one another. Well if we are then the tumblr site needs to be fixed up. Firstly, it's long a scrolly on the main page, which funnily,...

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Post meeting, with milk and joachim (a lovely power user!) I remain in favour of switching to tumblr.

Due to its great usability and simplicty, and also because the timescale mentioned to make drupal good was in the region 6 months.

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ie. this is a example simple front page...

http://forestcafe.tumblr.com/front

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Yo and hey!

sounding good, i made this, its kinda fun please check it:

http://forestcafe.tumblr.com/front

i also adjusted the tumblr to reflect gareths organisation ideas, these things could be buttons, i just havent done it yet.

nice.

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totally agree with chombee and also gaz. I've totally come around to the front page idea, i like the gaz broad suggestion, but i also like a slightly different idea, which stevie and me have been thinking on.. check this thought: basically an ongoing front page design competition.. oh how i do love ...

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sold out on amazon, but one second hand copy for £28.95

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Golden-Hour-Boo ... 663&sr=8-3

this is also good:

http://cn.last.fm/music/The+Very/_/Save ... ?autostart

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milk wrote:it's a desire to redesign the site properly which is why i'm going to advertise for someone with the requisite skills and time to do a good job.

whats the new design you have in mind?

and why are you so defensive of the current site it you acknowledge it needs to be redesigned?

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this is how easy it is to add content to the site:

http://forestcafe.tumblr.com/submit

no login, no password, anyone can submit (poseter, picture, video, etc..), then forest crew can post it up (with a single click)..

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yo! i think the forest website should be: attractive easy to navigate easy to post to and that this should happen soon! i do not have confidence in the current site or in bringing a new team to move things forward. a lot of us have good design and aesthetic sense, many of us are visual artists, this...

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i've changed updated the site so that it only displays 3 posts per page. it can be any number...

xx

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So i thought i'd check out tumblr as this is what dan meth uses (our friend in ny who is kinda a king of animation in the internet world). Turns out chombee had already set up a forest tumblr account a coupla years ago..! i mashed it... check it out: http://forestcafe.tumblr.com/ this took me a coup...

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i largely agree with janes points on this. over the years we've had five websites, none of them has ever been that great. I think the main thing is that the site should be attractive and simple, with awesome pictures up front. currently it is dominated by fairly difficult to understand text and aver...

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another awesome diy arts combine place:

http://www.secretprojectrobot.org/

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shared workshop space with classes and events:

http://madagascarinstitute.com/

went to an awesome talk by a guy who builds pulse jet engines, they are suprising easy to build..

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In addition to reviewing prices, try looking at other suppliers, or cheaper ingredients. Sometimes things like switching from pine kernels to chopped peanuts can make an enormous difference to cost, without compromising the taste sensation too much

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i think in parts this is an great idea. at the moment "customers" have no interaction with the music playing, and do not know what it is. it would be cool, if they knew what was playing, and could even choose it. the difficulties discussed seem to concern money and practicalities, if these things co...

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am i in it? x

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frankly i think that right now the food at forest is the best its ever been.

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if it aint broke.. etc...

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found.. under the piano of course...whew!

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very useful to know:

http://www.rosesbydesign.co.uk/single-rose.php

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awesome!

get her to do it!

xxxxxxxxx

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lobat
covox
crystal castles
the ethiopians
vybz kartel
kanye west
mistral
jack beats
beirut
country teasers
moderat
disney
the chordettes

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i is dj

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$dawg, you in the wrong job. that is one unbeblievable good promotization and advertimotioning!!!!!!!!!

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okZZZ so the flyers are now at the eneterance to the cafe...... IT IS A BROKEN GHOST PARTY.. SO BETTER BE A BROKEN GHOST.. VERY SUPER ULTRA IMPORETANT TO GET OUT THERE AND TALK TO PEOPLE AND GET THE BUZZ GOING!! WE GOT UVS + BANDS + GHOSTS + ELECTORNICS + LAZERS + MUSICS + DANCINGS... HIT THE STREET...

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i have a new mish mash kicking about/// if required...

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hey! killa soundz krewz! ok! so point 3... yes the mackies need to be repaired, and its three of them, with broken top ends.. (you can test this by making a "tch tch tch" sound into a microphone, it should be quite obvious..) you dont need to find a cheaper place, red dog is likely to be the cheapes...

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how convenient

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wow! great work famous dude!

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yo! so hey! i spoke to milk, and he says to implement a cool design template for the website (whether is my design or someone elses) requires someone who is great at php and css (not the band) to make it happen... Milk does not have these skills, so until someone arrives who does, its kinda stuck......

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more goodness:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/galler ... =338308074

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anyhow, those are my thoughts..

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rest..

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hey! ok so this is my email to milk - i think the key thing is that it is simple, cool looking, and has a default 'timeline driven' cool front page (to avoid us being out of date all the time...) ok milk! sorry this is a bit long..., probly worth cut and pasting to a text editor.. i have given the d...

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ok... those are very good points, but i do think a little more work is required before a switch takes place...

i wrote some suggestions and ideas to milk a little while ago, and a simple design, i'll post it here with my explainations if i can find it..

now searching... xx

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additionally i think it is a sufficiently important change, affecting many aspects of forest, that transition to the new website should be a fwg decision.

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basically disagree...

the current website is very good, but hectic, i don't think the new website should take its place until it looks great and is essentially finished.

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kanye west - super great.

lil wayne - only got a little bit by him, but he off the scale.

t rex - ride a white swan

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