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[prog]

http://volity.net has stuff on it now. I'm sure it's riddled with bugs, but daerr has set up a nice Subversion-based system that lets us (or anyway lets me) bang on the site safely, so I sez: bring 'em on.

There are already a few features I'd like to get online before April's over, like the developer blog. Other than that, the rest of the month will be primarily dedicated to self-promotion and heating up old contacts. So I haven't done everything I wanted to do with the website pre-rollout, but I'd say things are still nicely on-schedule.

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[karlvonl.livejournal.com]

Woah, swanky! I just had to say that, immediately after seeing the front page; I haven't dug into the site yet. But it looks really nice compared to 99.9% of other web sites out there, for both corporate web sites and sites of open source projects.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Much of the credit for the slickness goes to Arcus Digital's Rob Oliver, the designer whom jtroutman has donated to us (for several hours a week, anyway). He designed the logos and wrote all the CSS that I have been carefully and inexorably wrecking.

I totally stole the "big glowing download button" idea and code (it's a cute CSS hack) from http://getfirefox.com . But theirs is green and ours in blue so there is NO PROBLEM.

We are now a little concerned that the site may look too slick; it may say "we're competent", which is good, but there's nothing about it right now that shouts "play games". So, more to think about.

[misuba.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing. That may be what you want the big blue button to say.

The "Games" page has no screenshots on it... this may also be a problem.