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The right thing to do... (Score:1)
And by professional designer i mean someone prominent, like Jon Hicks.
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The logo we already have. The onion can be used really well and in different ways.
It's the site template, done in a way that we people making up new perl.org/cpan.org websites can easily integrate, that we badly need.
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A proposed redesign for use.perl.org, created by Andy Wardley the last time this discussion happened:
http://wardley.org/use.perl.org/test.html [wardley.org]
A few different people tried to contact pudge with no response, so plans/hopes to improve the looks of use.perl were abandoned.
Trying to do something useful with the wave of enthusiasm for Perl websitey things, at Digital Craftsmen we built this:
http://perlisalive.com/ [perlisalive.com]
Which obviously uses a modified version of Andy's design. Meanwhile, Andy was working on a re
Perl is Alive
http://perlisalive.com [perlisalive.com]
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Most of Andy's changes were meaningless cosmetic changes, and I simply don't care about that, and don't have the time to give to shepherding through things that to me are unimportant. I have too many actually important things to ignore! I know a lot of you care deeply about how shiny a web page is. I am not one of these people. I don't apologize for it, and I find it odd that your perception of the site would be so drastically impacted by that.
As to the lack of news that Alias mentioned, I've many times
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Thanks for getting so efficiently to the root of the problem.
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You appear to be trying to criticize me, but I don't think you actually are.
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Allow me to rephrase it in a way that you can understand: you have your head so far up your own ass you could kiss your own tonsils. Hope this helps.
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Nope, you've confirmed I was right all along. You were not, in fact, criticizing me. You were trying to, but you did not. You think it is a criticism of me that I don't care about such things. It's not. You think that the fact that I don't care about such things means I "have my head up my ass." You are wrong.
I could, of course, say the exact same thing to you, from my perspective: anyone who thinks a "shiny" web page makes a lick of difference, and actually cares about such things, has his head up hi
Re:The right thing to do… (Score:1)
Do you care about the layout of code?
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Do you care about the price of tea in china?
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Hmm, I just got a mail telling me there was a reply. I don’t see one.
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I thought you started a game of Non Sequiturs. It's your move!
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Hmm, must be a bug somewhere.