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New art.gnome.org released

Submitted by thos on Tue, 2005-03-22 06:21. Gnome Art
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As you may have noticed, art.gnome.org as recently undergone a major reworking. Some of the new features you can now find here include:

  • New website design
  • New User system
  • Comments system
  • Rating system
  • Variants, license and version options for themes and backgrounds
  • Background resolution submission

I would like to thank all those involved in these improvements, with special mention to Michael Gebhart who helped with the coding, and to Eric Bobbitt and Marco Bonomo who helped with the new site design. And of course Ross Golder who validated the code for release onto the gnome.org servers, and to the all the people who helped test the site and provide the all important suggestions and comments!

With these new upgrades however, we have had to let go all our old content because the task of migration would have been near impossible to do properly. For the moment, the old content can still be found on the ftp at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/teams/art.gnome.org/archive. If any artists wish to have their art included on art.gnome.org then please register an account and use the submit options available from the account page.

Any problems or suggestions for the site can be filed in the art component of the website product on GNOME bugzilla, as well as discussed on the forums.

To celebrate the new release, Radel has done some excellent backgrounds for art.gnome.org:
AGO-Cirlces
AGO-Clean
AGO-Digital-1
AGO-Digital-2
AGO-GreenBlue

First off I would like to com

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-03-24 17:27.

First off I would like to commend the great work on the new design, etc.

Just some constructive criticism:

The titles for the pages (e.g. what you see in your web browser's title bar) are all "ART.GNOME.ORG" ... all caps is bad, and the title says nothing about the current page. It would be better if the different pages had different titles, like each theme's page would have the theme's title in the page title... for example: "Gartoon Icon Theme - art.gnome.org" for http://art.gnome.org/themes/icon/1/

I also noticed that on the "updates" page, the textbox on the bottom for the user to enter the number of updates to view, has a very low contrast outline. Please make it have more contrast to the background.

Great work, and thanks for the awesome site!

--Farrell F.

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