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[Bear Kaufmann <bear@ursine-design.com>]

> -can the tabs be equal sizes?  i.e. "Vision" is smaller than "Get 
> Involved"
> and it might look nicer if they were equal.  (actually is "Vision" 
> written in
> smaller font?  it looks like it.)
Actually they are all the same font. Must be an optical illusion.

> -can all the logos not be smushed in the center, but spaced evenly 
> accross the
> footer?
Working on it.

> -can "advanced" be written in a font that you can see it (not light 
> blue if
> the background is darker blue - something that stands out a bit more)?
Yes. I'll try back.

> -and what's the arrow next to advanced for?  if you can click on 
> "Advanced"
> why have the arrow?
It's meant to imply you can click to expand the options, a la a folder, 
and it signals the state (up or down). But OK, seems like a different 
UI widget might get the point across better.
BTW - John, I'm thinking of a technique which should allow a graceful 
degrade of the collapse expand feature (Links in the HTML go to a URL 
with a GET value ?expanded=advanced which can set the class of the 
#advanced div, then use body onload to replace the links with the 
toggle action if javascript is there. Meaning a refresh to get the 
toggle action on non-JS browsers, and the regular feature otherwise). 
Still have to implement that.

> the layout of the search feels awkward to me...I'll think
> about why.
Yeah, note that this is really just a few dummy values, for the sake of 
design, I don't have the whole search filled in yet.

> -for some reason, I don't like the little spotty rays of the sun in 
> the upper
> left.  they look messy.  can they be bolder, more defined instead of 
> wishy
> washy?
Yes, true. I'll just try removing them for now.

> -did you take that photograph?  it's beautiful.  have you showed off 
> your
> photography to the group?
Actually I've got it rotating through about 5 images for the header. 
Try reloading and you'll see something different. I'm not sure which 
one you saw. They are all mine though.

I know Lawrence has seen some. I've really got to revamp my website, 
put up nicer photos on it. Unfortunately my small time webhost for my 
website, seems really busy and hasn't fixed an FTP permissions problem. 
I'm tempted to move on. Anyway, I'll get something nicer up soon to 
show my work shortly.

> if not you SHOULD.  actually I wanted to ask you
> something (since no one is probably reading this anyway) - a friend of 
> mine is
> doing her medical school rotation at oakland children's hospital and 
> she's
> doing a presentation there soon.  she wants some imagery to go along 
> with her
> presentation (about embryology of the heart) and I sugggested that she 
> talk to
> you.  I feel like you'd probably have a photograph of something 
> (water, sap)
> that mimics the bloodflow phenomenon she's discussing.  anyways, we 
> can talk
> more...
Yes, lets talk offline.

> back to piw...this more recent iteration looks really nice, Bear.
Good. Thanks.

> -Wait, there's more.  So I tried switching to Thunderbird.  Or shall I 
> say,
> Bear tried switching me to Thunderbird.  It didn't work for some 
> reason.  Hey
> Bear, considering the technical expertise we gots here - could you 
> please
> explain why it didn't work in case someone can figure it out?
It was rather late in the evening, I'm sure the problem is fixable. The 
username/password wasn't passing though using POP or IMAP. Not quite 
sure why, may not have the right port or authentication (which they 
wanted), or servername, or something. I should probably just run 
through the settings again per the instructions on the site. Or Steph, 
you might want to tell Thunderbird to make a new account and try 
entering all the values in the instructions (in a slow, thoughtful 
manner), see if I didn't dot my t's and cross my i's.

> -Chad asked an interesting question, "Ok, thinking more about 
> relationships
> and I've come to an interesting sticky place in my thinking. My 
> question is,
> are we talking about an object that has a relationship to one or more 
> objects
> or a set of objects that have a relationship with each other or is it
> sometimes one and sometimes the other?"  Could this be different 
> levels of
> zoom?  'Zoom in' on one object, and view all of the relationships it 
> has with
> other objects.  But you could also 'zoom out' and view groups of 
> objects
> (companion plants <--> full guilds) and their relationships with other
> objects/groups of objects.  Does it have to be one or the other?  
> Mimic Gaia.
Good meaty topic I'd love to discuss, just too tired now.
Let's keep this one on the table.

Cheers,
Bear