Tech Team Volunteer Communication

[peteinportland]

This is the thread for members of our tech team to communicate on various projects on which they are working. This is a thread almost exclusively for those volunteers.

[desertrat]

that's great ! seeing you are online: thanks, got your mail, will start looking into the cafe-page tomorrow (it's past midnight here right now).

[desertrat]

first question: who designed the header picture that's at the brokeback shop ? i thought we could design a similar one for the cafepress page, to give the pages a similar appearance.

[peteinportland]

I think Greg designed that, but we can copy it and manipulate as needed.

[desertrat]

I think Greg designed that, but we can copy it and manipulate as needed.

that's great. i'll try and work up a design proposal this afternoon. had a look at the page, the possibilities of customsation are quite good, won't be a problem to make it similar to the forum pages. did you already hear from chris ? is he going to do the html ? if for some reason he can't do it i think i can do it as well. it's pretty simple.

[peteinportland]

I have not heard from Chris today, but yesterday he said he would check it out. Nice to know it is not too daunting of a task. We need to find a way to include a link on that Cafe Press page back to the main store page. I also need to look at th copy and decide what we actually want on there.

[desertrat]

here's a design proposal i quickly threw together today. it's just a rough one, to give you an impression of what i had in mind. therefore - ideas, chritisism & everything else welcome and desired !

[peteinportland]

Looks okay thus far. I am upcountry in Thailand for the next 24 hours, but will be online after that.

Thanks for all the hard work!

[desertrat]

hey pete, are you back yet ? does chris know about this thread ? just wanted to see whether he took a look at my proposal already...

[peteinportland]

I am back, but not sure if Chris has looked. I will email him.

Pete

[ChrisFewa]

Hi

sorry just got rob's email.

Very cool proposal, looks good.

I'm wondering if you want it to look exactly our store, we could do a screen cap on our store and either cut it up into all the parts we need, or just put all the hit points over the screen cap as a background...Just an idea...

[desertrat]

chris, whatever you prefer ! and whenever you have other ideas, please say so !

what i also thought about was the buttons. in my proposal i only did some white-with-balck-border things. but we could do them in that blue design the forum has..or completely different. maybe some kind of "logo" on them would be nice (like, let's say, 2 cowboy hats on the left side or so). what do you think ?
did you check the cafe-page already ? seems quite easy to write the html...

[ChrisFewa]

I have had a crazy week...lol

I hate sites like this, I like using DW and being able to see what my coding is doing, with this it will be alittle nuts, making changes saving previewing.

I don't think my screencap idea would work, well it could but it would be way complicated.

I wouldn't make the buttons to complicated, simple is always better. 
Maybe just the shape of hats or something with the words in them, for the header of each section.

[desertrat]

sounds good - i'll try to do some buttons tonight if i can find the time 

[ChrisFewa]

lol yep if you get some extra email me what you can spair, time that is.

Ya i'll try some versions too, do you want to do a button change, before, mouseover, press type thing, or do you think thats to much?