>- I'm not too happy with the colours which are a tad dark,

i dislike the design..
although traditional and thus easy to navigate it lacks personality and
looks like one of thousands home-made homepages spread all around net.
but that is only my point of view :)
i'm not too happy with the poser girl, either, but that's just because i
happen to dislike poser anyway..
some traditionally modelled character or 3d-scanned face closeup would be
nice :)

i would prefer more collage art style of design (pieces and closeups of
famous pov-pictures etc.. with strong one-color lines)

-alt

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I'm not took keen on the site, I think that it does load faster, but the
brown is er how do you say nicely, 'out' and comic sans should have never
made past the drawing board in my opinion.  And what about frames?  Is there
still such a large audience that use non-frame-enabled browsers, as
everytime you click a link you are reloading the links - and the page could
fit seamless frames with ease as their appears to be no cross over.
Obviously though compatibility is of extreme importance - change the
background colour (lighter!) and I think people wil be far happier.

Even better why not someone finish off this POV-logo business and replace
the er not so nice one.  I mean no harm in this a lot of work has obviously
gone into the site, I just think that a good site is a part of making POV
audience (though obviously the sheer quality of the prog does er help).

Pete

www.petecracknell.co.uk

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> Just went to the POV-Ray page looking for links, and it happens to have
> a new design !
> It looks like it's still a work in progress. I hope that there will be
> new things in the "under construction pages".
> First remarks:
> - It certainly loads faster (javascript gone) which is better.
> - I'm not too happy with the colours which are a tad dark, and with the
> Poser girl, which I find too Poseresque (that hair, ahem..) and not a
> good demo for the mapping abilities that should be in Povray 3.5.
> What do people think ?
> G.
>

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If you're running Windows (95 and over) you can press alt+tab to switch
applications easily. If you're running a Macintosh, you can do the same,
except it's command+tab.

Bruce L wrote:

>  No matter what resolution I'm running, my browser is never
> full-screen since I like to be able to easily flip back and forth.

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"Simon de Vet" wrote:
> > > The coolest layout I've seen in a very long time can be
> > > found at http://www.scifi-art.com/
> > >
> > > Simple, but very original, and beautiful.
> >
> I was impressed by the opening, splash page. The rest is
> average, really...

OK. I personally would anytime prefer good design on the actual pages
instead of good design on the splash page...

Greetings,

Rune

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"Peter Cracknell" wrote:
> Even better why not someone finish off this POV-logo business
> and replace the er not so nice one.

I think it would be nice to have a POV-Ray logo on the site, but I certainly
don't think we should "finish off the POV-logo business". If there's
anything I've learned by managing the contest, it is that the process of
making/choosing a good logo takes time.

I expect the whole contest to be over in about half a year +/- a month or
two. I think finding a good logo for POV-Ray is a task where we should not
go on compromise.

Greetings,

Rune

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"Scott Hill" wrote:
>     Actually, what I think would be really neat is if that image
> changed regularly, each time demonstrating different aspects of
> POVRay - one week a nice Poser girl showing mapping features,
> the next a teddybear showing the power of media, and so on...

Err, there already *is* a ever-changing image on the front page!

Right now we have an ever-changing image in the middle, and the poser girl
to the right.

What you want is an ever-changing image in the middle, and another
ever-changing image to the right? I don't see the reason.

I'm not defending the poser girl. I personally think that the ever-changing
image in the middle is enough by itself, and that we don't need anything to
the right at all. I just wish the ever-changing image in the middle used
some newer and better images that could really show off POV-Ray's
features...

That's my opinion anyway.

Greetings,

Rune

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"vaihtoehto" wrote:
> i dislike the design..
> although traditional and thus easy to navigate it lacks
> personality and looks like one of thousands home-made
> homepages spread all around net.

I agree.

> i'm not too happy with the poser girl, either, but that's
> just because i happen to dislike poser anyway...

Me too, and because I don't think poser is "typical POV-Ray-ish".

> i would prefer more collage art style of design (pieces and
> closeups of famous pov-pictures etc.. with strong one-color
> lines)

Maybe, maybe not, I don't know. But at least *something* more original and
better than the current design!

Greetings,

Rune

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SamuelT wrote:
> 
> If you're running Windows (95 and over) you can press alt+tab to switch
> applications easily. If you're running a Macintosh, you can do the same,
> except it's command+tab.

With Linux, it's also alt-tab, by most window managers.

Remco Poelstra

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"Gilles Tran" <tra### [at] inapginrafr> wrote in message
news:394### [at] inapginrafr...
> Just went to the POV-Ray page looking for links, and it happens to have
> a new design !
> It looks like it's still a work in progress. I hope that there will be
> new things in the "under construction pages".
> First remarks:
> - It certainly loads faster (javascript gone) which is better.
> - I'm not too happy with the colours which are a tad dark, and with the

I'd rather the colours were a little too dark than too bright - the orange
background of the previous site wasn't that great IMHO.

> Poser girl, which I find too Poseresque (that hair, ahem..) and not a
> good demo for the mapping abilities that should be in Povray 3.5.

Why has everyone leapt on her so much? (if you'll excuse the expression ;)
She shows how a natural looking object can be rendered by POV, and made to
look reasonably realistic.  Assuming the site is made to appeal to ~new~
visitors (we all know what POV can do, so it hardly matters what they put on
the package;) then this ability to reproduce something seen in real life
(erm, assuming they don't spend a little too long at the computer ;) would
be impressive.  Just using something like a teapot doesn't give quite the
same effect - I'm not quite sure why, but maybe it's because it's already
man-made in the first place.
ok, some people might argue that it shouldn't be there as it's obvious it
hasn't been hand-coded in POV script - but there are plenty of other images
on the site that have, and many new visitors aren't really going to be too
bothered by this - to them, it's simply an impressive image and so another
reason to get interested in POV.
I also think it adds a welcome "casual" feel - that POV isn't always used
for serious images... sure, some people might think (quite rightly) that a
women dressed somewhat sparingly in leopard-skin is a little cheesy... but
what's the problem with a bit of light-heartedness?  Showing new visitors an
accurately modelled isosurface of a complex function doesn't quite get the
"tell me more" factor going (for, erm, some people anyway).
As a final little point, the suggestion of scrapping her in place of a
spaceship (hand coded in real pov script) seems to reinforce the slightly
stereotypical view some people may have of computer modellers... ;)

Matt

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Andrea Ryan <ary### [at] global2000net> wrote:
: The girl is not a very good mascot for POV.

  Why not?

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