Love the new looks!

[nightfrost]

I don't know if this is the right spot to say it, but I really really like the new go-compiz.org design and the integration with the forums. It looks very nice

Many thanks to all the people involved!

[lowfi]

the new design looks very coooool. great work! :shock:

[wfarr]

There are some things that could use touching up, but it's definitely a great start.

[RYX]

Thanks everybody - I'm glad to hear that you like the new design ...

Most people said it is too bright so I guess it's true ... I'll fix that the next days, I needed a small break - you can't imagine how difficult this whole stuff became in the end. Coding the template/skin was easy and straight-forward but getting everything up and running was a real PITA. I had no db-access and whenever I needed changes in the db I had to contact Jeff via email or write a PHP-script for modifiying the db ... It is very close to a miracle that we got that thing up and running today. (Thanks, Jeff for your patience )

The plugin-download section will come soon, too. I am working on a template-based way to do that. We first have to re-organize the wiki a little bit and clean up here and there. It's all still a bit experimental ...

[karmapolice]

I really like the new look and it fits with my desktop too .

[imnotpc]

Most people said it is too bright so I guess it's true Very Happy ... I'll fix that the next days, I needed a small break - you can't imagine how difficult this whole stuff became in the end. Coding the template/skin was easy and straight-forward but getting everything up and running was a real PITA. I had no db-access and whenever I needed changes in the db I had to contact Jeff via email or write a PHP-script for modifiying the db ... It is very close to a miracle that we got that thing up and running today. (Thanks, Jeff for your patience Smile)

Whew! This turned out to be a much bigger project than we expected. The DNS isn't changed yet (we are re-directing a re-direct right now) but the site was also moved to the compiz.org domain. On top of that we changed the mysql database from a remote host to the local host. So RYX uploaded a new installation to the new site, I backed up the old site, did a mysqldump from the old host, uploaded the database to the local database, spent a bunch of time with config sutff, and then left RYX to move the wiki to the new site and modify it to fit his new tabbed design. Of course it didn't go smooth like that. It took all day, but I think the site was only down a couple times for about two hours total. Many thanks to RYX and amgeex for their design work, and a huge thanks to RYX for all the effort to get the site up. Nice Job!

Jeff

[karmapolice]

I noticed that the header with the logo is a little bit mmm well it's a gif and it would be better if you change it to a PNG with better quality.

[RYX]

I noticed that the header with the logo is a little bit mmm well it's a gif and it would be better if you change it to a PNG with better quality.

Ooops ... That's a relic of the theme I started from, I planned to convert them to pngs (which is no problem because I recreated each single graphic in the template and have all the SVG/XCF files). The cool thing is that these GIFs are almost all smaller than 1Kb in size which results in lower traffic. Of course, the header-images are just placeholders for something more beautiful and subject to change. I'd like to place some "composite bling effects" there but I had nothing at hand (and wanted to avoid using Flash).

@imnotpc: Thank you, too ...