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Apr 26, 2002, 12:35am

Woooohooooo!
The new Cy Pages are up and running!
AND...Thanks to Computerizer and his Company.....we now have our own forum:)
Please come and join the forum to keep updated on upcoming events and
announcements. And also, please feel free to leave comments and
suggestions:)
The forum is sectioned out so if you have input for a particular area, you
can go directly there to leave it:)
Team Leaders will be checking the forum daily and someone will get back to
you within 24 hours:)
We also have past photos of the Ceremonies!
Well...last round, but tons more to come!
Cya at the new site!

Apr 26, 2002, 12:58am

*runs up from general.discussion* nothing here either

sonystyle [maki]

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Apr 26, 2002, 1:11am

Well.. When you said "new" I was expecting something a little *newer* than
that... That was so easy to slop together I could almost cry!


Just so everyone can see... This was my entry: http://207.59.10.4/cyawards/
Please tell me what you think...


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Apr 26, 2002, 1:21am

Looks pretty nice, what's the new one look like, so I can make a choice?

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Apr 26, 2002, 1:30am

Sadly, the choice has already been made. (that's what I was referring to in
my previous message)

Check http://www.awcommunity.org/cyawards/ to see the new design that was
chosen. Something of a sloppy remake of the old design if you ask me. The
images were moved a little, and there is a top and left hand golden rules
added, plus the left side menu.

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Apr 26, 2002, 2:17am

Tho alpha's page is nice I like yurs better JerMe

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Apr 26, 2002, 4:25am

Yours has animated buttons, frivolous! Web pages should only have images
that are 100% necessary and or help with navigation. Could be worse, could
have had Java or flash.. or.. or pop ups! You kids and your fancy graphics!

How's about plain text black and white with no images.

Heck how about simple randomly generated webpages that display random award
"winners" ? Would solve many steps.

Apr 26, 2002, 4:34am

ooo I take back that last mico-paragraph about random winners... although it
begs the question, who will be on this alleged so called "selection
committee"

Apr 26, 2002, 6:05am

Well I think yours looked great jerme, but then again I was nto the one who
had to decide.

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Apr 26, 2002, 6:06am

I disagree baro. To be effective a website must load fast and grab
attention. jerme's did both of those.

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Apr 26, 2002, 7:08am

Couldn't you have changed the font colors? That purple color makes it
hard to read.


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"alphabit phalpha" <alphabit at swbell.net> skrev i meddelandet
news:3cc8bcf5$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Woooohooooo!
> The new Cy Pages are up and running!
> AND...Thanks to Computerizer and his Company.....we now have our own
forum:)
> Please come and join the forum to keep updated on upcoming events and
> announcements. And also, please feel free to leave comments and
> suggestions:)
> The forum is sectioned out so if you have input for a particular area,
you
> can go directly there to leave it:)
> Team Leaders will be checking the forum daily and someone will get
back to
> you within 24 hours:)
> We also have past photos of the Ceremonies!
> Well...last round, but tons more to come!
> Cya at the new site!

Apr 26, 2002, 8:28am

I agree with Baro about the rollover buttons, they were not needed. The
overall design and graphics look very professional. However, what screen
resolution was the site designed for? 640x480? It just seems a bit small
in my opinion. If you made it like that on purpose so others can view it
inside of the AWB, then that is fine. If not, you just need to widen it
a bit more. Most people use at least 800x600 or higher for their screen
resolution.

-Builderz

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Apr 26, 2002, 3:58pm

Hi Jerme:)

That was easy to put together? The forum...the album? Utilizing 2
servers?
Wouldn't have been easy for me....but I'm not that well versed in web
page building:)

Apr 26, 2002, 4:13pm

Hi again Jerme:)

Since your on the topic of comparing the old with the new...maybe you
should be more thorough.
What's new is the following;
1. Less graphics for faster download.
2. Corrected fonts so everyone can see the pages without having to highlite
the letters.
3. A more organized links list.
4. A calender.
5. A chat forum. With capabilities for uploading a person's photo.
6. A chat forum with organized folders for each area of the teams.
7. More web space for the forum.
8. A historical section under construction.
9. Contact link with areas to fill in.
10. Voting and Nominations pages, that will save me about 200 hours of
work:)
11. Future stuff that hasn't even been thought of yet!
12.....anything I might have forgotten:)

You have a right to your opinions, and I respect them.
Your entry was wonderful also.

FYI.....The Webmaster that was chosen, was not only chosen for thier
capabilities and talents, but anyone who joins the Team has a main criteria
to meet. The Cy Heart. (The Cy Heart is one that thinks of others first.
Gives more than receives)
The Webmaster isn't just a Webmaster, they are part of the Cy Team and must
be able to keep a positive attitude and work with others.
Could you have fit in those shoes? (That is a rhetorical question:)

Apr 26, 2002, 4:16pm

Dear Community:)

The pages are new. If you have any helpful comments and suggestion
please
join the forum pages and post them there.
We appreciate all constructive input:)

Thanks!
Bit:)

Apr 26, 2002, 4:21pm

That stuff could be easily added into his design. It's a very nice design,
nice and light compared to the dark black and purple that's hard to makeout
sometimes. The Forums and voting could be easily fit into Jerme's design
:).

--Bowen--

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Apr 26, 2002, 4:58pm

Who's on this "selection committee" ?

Apr 26, 2002, 5:07pm

You all will decide who will be on it:)
All the details are on the procedures and calender pages at
www.awcommunity.org/cyawards

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Apr 26, 2002, 5:34pm

Or he could just center it and it would look muhc better.

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Apr 26, 2002, 5:40pm

uh oh. That could be make it just as problematic as voting for the winners.
You'll have the same popularity contests have before, but this time groups
of friends all submitting a person from their group not on the grounds of
their skilled and objective judgeing, but on the grounds of their friends
chosings the winners.

Apr 26, 2002, 5:51pm

Jer the reason i think your page wasnt accepted is it did not follow the CY
Awards color scheme of gold and purple.
But that is just a guess

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Apr 26, 2002, 5:56pm

I could be wrong here but I believe web pages used in AW are built towards
the left for easier reading in the AW brwoser?

Apr 26, 2002, 5:58pm

Well using center centers the page based on the browser's visable field, so
it'd fine either way.

--Bowen--

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Apr 26, 2002, 6:02pm

Trust me Baro....if people don't have the credentials to be a judge, they
will be asked if they really feel capable of performing the judging.
We are hoping that the Community will participate enough to make sure
experianced knowledgeable folks end up as judges. We also will need "fresh
eyes" .
The judging positions require alot of work. A ton of builds to see and
programs to try out.
They will be required to give input on what they chose also.
We rely alot on trust regarding the Cys, and hopefully we can continue to do
so:)
We have tried alot of different ways to do the Cys....but this one hasn't
been tried yet.....cross your fingers that this ones a hit;)

Apr 26, 2002, 7:16pm

JerMe JerMe JerMe! lol, I never really did like the dark gloomy look of the
cy pages, and all they did was take the pieces and rearrange it as though it
was nearly an accident, lol, oh well, and animated stuff and fancy graphics
rocks! :-) (JerMe's a kid?)

sonystyle [maki]

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Apr 26, 2002, 7:22pm

oh there's more - *chooses a random message to reply to with* Well I believe
that the roll over buttons (which take seconds to download) and other nice
graphics are nice and grab most people's attention and keep them interested
if you went to a site with white background and black text and that was it
with a few links...hah! Most systems (despite their connection) take seconds
to download the buttons and images anyway, lots of people also have fast
connections, and also, the '640x480' mention, alot of times it's easier to
navigate and more organized and better looking if it's smaller, also the aw
browser, professional websites and business often do that, I think they look
great :-

sonystyle [maki]

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Apr 26, 2002, 7:33pm

Greetings,

Many of you are putting down my web design for the new Cy Awards web site at
http://www.awcommunity.org/cyawards/ . I wanted to comment on the site a little
bit.

First, and most importantly, I just want to let everyone know that I am open to
suggestions for everyone regarding the web site. Already I have lightened the
font color some, as per demand, because a minority of people seem to have
trouble seeing it on their darker monitors.

You're right, that the template for the site I made was a quickly-made page. It
was supposed to be just a sample page to show AlphaBit that I could make some
sort of web page. However, she liked it so much, that I felt any immediate
changes to improve it would not be neccessary. Since then, I have personally
entered in the entire text of every page on the site, and I have created lots of
PHP and Perl to help run the site and related things much better, in addition to
donating server space and server processor time to the Cy Awards at my own
expense.

If you want to help out with the web site, don't put it down, give me
suggestions. As I said, I am completely open to suggestions from anyone. Please
let me know. I plan to ignore any more put-downs about my web design. I own a
web hosting and web design company, and I don't intend for anyone to hurt the
reputation of myself or my company in any way.

Computerizer,
Cy Awards Webmaster


[View Quote] > Well.. When you said "new" I was expecting something a little *newer* than
> that... That was so easy to slop together I could almost cry!
>
> Just so everyone can see... This was my entry: http://207.59.10.4/cyawards/
> Please tell me what you think...
>
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Jeremy Booker
> JTech Web Systems
> (www.JTechWebSystems.com -- Coming Soon)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Apr 26, 2002, 8:10pm

Hey Comp,

Well put and I hope everyone respects your professionalism and honors
your request.

Thank you,

Bit:)

Apr 26, 2002, 9:38pm

Maybe you don't want to hear this, but one of the most elementary design
rules for a website, any website, is to NOT use a dark background color with
light colored text. It's very difficult to read, and black with purple text
is extremely difficult. Perhaps you could use a light lilac background with
black text to keep the same color theme?

A casual search turned up many sites regarding designing websites, and they
all say the same thing. Dark background/light text = poor design:

http://www.webmastersdirectory.com/articles/web_design/118.shtml


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Apr 26, 2002, 10:02pm

I don't know if I'm reading wrong or not, but it looks to me like that URL
says:
"
If you do choose to stray from black on white, make sure that there is
enough contrast between your text and background colors so that your
visitors will not have trouble reading your content.
"
Which is exactly why I am making the text color brighter, so it contrasts
better with the background (I did say this on the Cy Awards forums and in
my previous message here)

-Computerizer


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