<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I too have t say the logo is fantastic. I have mixed feelings about the site. It's nice and clean, and don't think it being like ruby-lang is too much of a problem.<DIV>However, I don't see the need to stray too much from the current design, just with more logo and sidebar/structure. And of course, some microformats (it's begging for hcards and hcals). Also, I don't know if the typography in the png is how you desire the final to be, but it doesn't scan nearly as well as the current design for me, but then I'm no typography expert.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Great work though,</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <DIV class="vcard" style="border: solid #555 1px; border-left: none; border-right: none; padding:5px; color: #333; float:left; width:95%;"> <IMG style="float:left; margin-right:4px; padding: 12px;" src=" http://abscond.org/ext/abscondlogo50.gif" alt="photo" class="photo"> <DIV style="float:left; padding:8px;"> <A class="url fn" href="http://absconddesign.com" style="font-size:140%; color:#333">James Darling</A> <DIV class="org">Abscond Design</DIV> <A class="email" href="mailto:james@abscond.org" style="color:#333">james@abscond.org</A> <DIV class="tel">07811407085</DIV> <A class="url" href="aim:goim?screenname=abscond@mac.com" style="color:#333">AIM/iChat</A> </DIV> <DIV class="adr" style="float:left; padding:8px;"> <DIV class="street-address">Rose Cottage<BR> Gwavas Road</DIV> <SPAN class="locality">Newlyn<BR></SPAN> <SPAN class="region">Cornwall<BR></SPAN> <SPAN class="postal-code">TR18 5EG<BR></SPAN> <SPAN class="country-name">UK</SPAN> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 10 Nov 2006, at 18:54, Richard Livsey wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I have just spent 20 mins or so messing about with logo and site designs for</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the LRUG site.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Quite pleased with the logo itself, but the site is currently a bit of a</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ruby-lang.org rip-off, not sure if that's a bad thing or not as it gives</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">some common identity.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The top right feels a bit empty, could put a search box up there.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Site: <A href="http://livsey.org/experiments/lrug/lrug_1.png">http://livsey.org/experiments/lrug/lrug_1.png</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Logo: <A href="http://livsey.org/experiments/lrug/lrug_logo_1.png">http://livsey.org/experiments/lrug/lrug_logo_1.png</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Will keep playing, any ideas/opinions are certainly welcome :o)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Unfortunately I'm not going to be able to make it to Mondays meet as I've</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">got a meeting I have to go to, but I should be finished by 8 so will be able</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to scoot along to the pub after!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(the photo used in the logo is licensed with creative commons:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonnybaker/288469527/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonnybaker/288469527/</A>)<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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