[Gimp-web] gallery

Shawn T Amundson amundson at gui.org
Mon Sep 8 01:26:48 2003


Carol,

I'm just going to assume that if you can't write a understandable email,
then you are agreeing with everything I suggest.  If that isn't the case,
then take some more time to make your position clearly stated.

You understand zen and known nothing about zen.

-Shawn

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:14:27PM -0400, Carol Spears wrote:
> Who am I to argue with the owner!
> 
> I would like to thank someone that you have returned, however I am
> running out of dieties, is there a julia?
> 
> Please, please. consider using tables. i miss web sites with tables.
> just because you can doesn't mean that you should.
> 
> a real edge would be to make some fancy image buttons with css and smart
> gimp gradients that work on the bgcolor of m/pngs in the gimp help
> browser ... you think?
> 
> no more zen, lets set a table up for them. one day of zen and i was
> suicidal, and i used to be able to avoid this.
> 
> I am messing with tables on my web site. Hard to find a combination that
> i like that validates.
> http://www.det-tour.org/
> would be nice if they would check with gimp for validation instead of me
> figuring out what their app made for me.
> 
> i dream though. sorry to ramble on on the web list.
> 
> i am trying to make a way to write tutorial pages from an xcf, btw.
> 
> Mr. Amundson, thanks for helping with your web site. I love this thing,
> and the terrible team I created that screwed it up and stopped it.
> 
> btw, did you know my first physics teachers name was amundson also? he
> taught me that it is the same thing to dive into the pool as it is to
> dive out. he used one of those little loopy science films to
> demonstrate. molecularly, there is no difference between diving in and
> diving out. just some weird way humans apply time to the equation.
> needless to say, i have not been the same ever since this thing he told
> me. he was a tan guy with a cute ass.
> 
> carol
> 
> 
> Shawn T Amundson wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:28:13PM +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 01:27, Shawn T Amundson wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>I think the new website should have a gallery section based off
> >>>Gallery: http://gallery.sf.net/.  Serious GIMP artists who are
> >>>willing could upload files at their convienience could then 
> >>>very easily do so.  This could also contain historical splash
> >>>screens and screenshots.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>The new website already contains a splash screen gallery:
> >>http://mmmaybe.gimp.org/about/splash/index.html
> >>
> >>There's also a 'contest' running where users can submit new splash
> >>screens:
> >>http://mmmaybe.gimp.org/contest/
> >>
> >>This one could be expanded to have a screen shot section as well.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Yeah, I saw both of these.  Looking at them again, looks like there
> >are rendering problems with the contest page:
> >
> >  http://www.gimp.org/~amundson/gimporgscreenshot.jpg
> >
> >Anyway, the point of using Gallery is that it will allow artists to 
> >easily upload works themselves and not require a machine account to 
> >do it.  It is also easy to setup, once the webserver has php support.
> >
> >I remember very well from the gimp.org contests of old, that if stuff
> >is not maintainable, it dies quickly.
> >
> >Also, this could be setup before or after the new site goes live.  I
> >can do all the setup work.
> >
> >-Shawn
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 

-- 
Shawn T. Amundson

"The assumption that the universe looks the same in every
 direction is clearly not true in reality." - Stephen Hawking