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[nanashiRei <nanashi.rei AT gmail.com>]

That theme is good, right. But we really should abstract a little from
the original. I know we are not selling stuff here at OpenNIC, however
we do still need to "sell" the idea right. And, no offense, whoever did
the current theme is either 40+, not creative or still uses window 98.
Sure sounds a little harsh, but when you want to distribute information
about something you got think about marketing strategies. That includes
dropping your own wishes for the media style. Of course there should be
elements that identify you/your project in a unique way, but if the user
that lands on your page finds it unattractive, then he will,
statistically proven, leaven within the first 45 seconds of his visit.
One major problem with most page, and also opennicproject.org, is wrong
alignment of content, wrong use of font size, wrong amount of text on
the index page and uninviting colors.

OpenNIC is a alternative DNS project, not a blog. Therefore i think the
landing page should **NOT** be a blog, forum or news list. It should be
a presentational one-page setup that nails down what opennic is and what
to gain from it. And do it in less then 100 words! (This is the amount
of words where users do statistically stop reading your page if they're
not convinced by then.) There still can be links in a sidebar/navigation
to a blog/forum/wiki, but as said that's not the main concern opennic
has for it's main page.

I personally was left with this first impression, until Nico H. told me
more about you guys and what this is about:

> "What is this? Looks like something that was abandoned long ago."

Again, no offense here, i'm the annoying user-type that thinks:

- A new design every year is common
- New things are always cool (also windows 8!)
- People that reject new things should stay off the Internet
- People that think that javascript is a security problem should die
(well not literally but some education would be good)

/shit-storm-end/

Am 04.12.2012 11:59, schrieb Peter Green:
> 
> @Travis I am sorry your input was rejected back then and I am happy you 
> still wish to contribute. From my point at least, I think it was because I 
> had already started work on the current theme.
> 
> I have always liked the clean professional look of your site and I hope we 
> can build something as fresh and as accessible for OpenNIC now.
> 
> The responsive theme you link to looks very interesting and when I get to a 
> computer tonight I will be studying it, thanks.
> 
> Can you send me some information about the API you mention please, maybe 
> off list?
> 
> Peter
> 
> 

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