add them!

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Maybe /r/internetisbeautiful?

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An assortment of thoughts:

1. I call making sigs! :D
2. If we end up doing ads, I'd say use Google Adwords.
   3)We should "partner" with gwiddle - on our homepage we add a shoutout to gwiddle; on gwiddle's homepage they shoutout to us. Once the project reaches a beta stage, I'll talk to jbayfield.
3. I've been thinking through homepage designs & pitches. I'll do a quick start on one tomorrow.

(Bolded the things that I call doing. :P)

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Sounds cool
Though I refuse to host on Gwiddle because PHP :P

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That'd be interesting - jbayfield would have to make an API for zip file uploads.

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Not integrated into theirs - we want all the traffic. :P

That's another thing, though, that I had thought of before I even made the forum topic about having this idea. I tend to plan things out. xD

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Yeah we're hosting on Heroku remember :P
Also, not sure how Gwiddle works but we can link each project to a site or something

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We aren't integrating with gwiddle. The point of partnering with them would be to give each other traffic - not to take traffic away from each other.

All we need is a link at the bottom that says "Want to host your websites online? Check out [large-scale gwiddle logo here]". Same on gwiddle, but for us.

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Ok

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I'm not sure what I think of this sig. Any feedback?

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#2

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@quat1024 I deleted them. That's how I try to be awesome online - I just delete my mistakes. :P

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Darn you quat
Also never knew about #X referencing the Xth issue

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@Firedrake969 Nice issue link. :3

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So... feedback?

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It's not centered, and it's kinda... empty imo. I think this design would work better if "Elemental" and the subheading were on the same line and it was about a quarter as tall 😜

What's the font you're using btw?

Once we can get the thing looking smexy, we should add a screenshot of some blocks to fill some of the emptiness. "show, don't tell" and all that.

Re: the tagline, I'd swap "make" for "code" (cuz, idk, I think the word "code" is a bit of a turn-off? And they're also designing it), and remove either "Scratch-like" or "block based" because they kinda say the same thing. "Learn to make websites with a simple, block based editor."

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@PullJosh
Background gives it more texture, which I prefer (before quat destroyed my hopes and dreams xD)
Also something seems too empty in the right of the green area

Agree with swapping make for code and removing "Scratch-like" or "block-based" (depends on our target audience - if mainly Scratch, use the former, but if not, use the latter)

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@PullJosh It looks amazing, its clean and the colours defiantly fit to the app. The only problem I might is the text on the bottom is too long. It breaks the look and feel of the design

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@quat1024 Fonts are source code pro and source sans pro.

Everyone: I agree with all of your suggestions - I wasn't too happy with it myself, but I couldn't really figure out what needed to be changed. As for the signature's size, I just set it at the maximum size a Scratch sig can be. In the future, samller versions could also be made. ;)

It's back to the drawing board for me.

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Hmm... Does this look any good?

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I would like the block with Elemental in it to be a bit bigger. Much better than the last one though

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Just the block, or the text within it as well?

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I like it!

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The proportions should stay the same, just make them both bigger.

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Okay!

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@BookOwl How's this?

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Something still seems empty to the left and right, but otherwise I love it (and not sure how to improve in any case).
Though we may want to change it after we decide how the blocks will look.

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I like it!

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Looks nice! The block is a bit blurry though

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@quat1024 Yeah, scaled up image. I'll make it nicer if we decide to use it.

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:P

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I personally like the first one best :P

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Anyone still doing this stuff?

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No, but I'll keep working on it once we get closer to a decent release.

Keep open for now.

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Ok, you noticed my closing spree? :P

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Just a little bit. :P

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What do you guys want the made with Elemental banner to look like?

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Like this:

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Just made an epic pun...
"With Elemental, learning to create websites is a snap!"

(We need to use that somewhere. :P)

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I like both

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You mean the banner and the pun?

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Yeah

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Thanks a lot! You just made my efforts worthless as mine would suck compared to yours xD

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No problem, m8. xD

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cries
Seriously though, looks great.

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:P

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Signature and org logo pls

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@Firedrake969 I'm on it. :)

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I tried a couple of things for the org logo, but it turned out just sort of meh.

Any ideas on how to improve it? Or should I just try something totally different?

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What's wrong? I like it

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It's cool, needs an e in the middle

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It's cool, needs an e in the middle

YES

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@an-OK-squirrel I'll try that.

@Firedrake969 +1 for markdown skills

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thx

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UM YES

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why does that look like internet explorer

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but green

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We could try a capital, but I think it would be ugly. :/

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Use whatever font you used in https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/5458180/8894040/5748b52e-3376-11e5-8869-2d1db6777201.png

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@Firedrake969 I did. I used the font of the bottom text. I can do the top text instead if you want.

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Yeah I meant the thinner one

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UM NO

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oh

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:P

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I like it without the e

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@TheInitializer That's great, but you're a bit outnumbered. :P

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also signature please?

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Is this okay?

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Yeah

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I'll work on the other sizes when I get the chance.

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TinyPic-ified for sigs:
http://oi61.tinypic.com/2h4j5ah.jpg

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT TINYPIC

Use cubeupload.

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nu

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Tinypic is like torture for your eyes.
http://i.cubeupload.com/Tc4TUJ.jpg

Also, I have good news and bad news.
Bad news: Paint.NET crashed and I lost the .pdn file, so making different sizes of the signatues is going to be difficult (do you guys think it's worth it?)
Good news: I get to have pizza for lunch.

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1. nah
2. Jimmy John's. I win.

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but does it matter?

it's not like it gives you a watermark

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@an-OK-squirrel They have this thing where they like to randomly take down images for no reason and replace them with the tinypic logo.

I think it's part of their advertising campaign. :/

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Really?

Really?

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Either that, or people decided it was fun to upload the tinypic logo to tinypic a bunch of times.

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I could see that happening

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Or they take it down themselves....
Or it's something bad that they uploaded

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troll: want to wreck forums and blame it on other people.

other troll: what about tinypic?

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Use whatever image host you want ok

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ok m9

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How's this going?

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what

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Are multiple sig sizes needed?

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Maybe one big and one small

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K. For small, should it be square or long and flat?

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long and flat, since we do have a square icon thing.

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Anyone want to make a sales pitch? :P

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Kind of hard to do until we finish the actual coding part. :P

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@ElementalCode/programmers ok the actual coding part is done

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(mostly)

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(the backend is pretty much done)

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same with the core editor functionality

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pretty much but we need more blocks

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many many more blocks

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