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plato <surfer> Started conversation Jul 27, 2002
I think it's time to release some new ones... Not that goo isn't cutting the buck or anything... 
Anyone got any design schemes or any ideas on how we can make our layout better?
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Sierra Indigo - now Cheesecakethulhu flavoured Posted Jul 27, 2002
Need more purple...*nodnods emphatically*
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jul 27, 2002
Hows about something not unlike Goo, except the background colour slowly pulsates between dark blue, deep purple and dark green...? 
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Jul 27, 2002
We've been promised a new skin since Christmas and have been told it's so good that all you goo users will abandon goo. But there's still no sign of it.
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Evil Zombie Strider Posted Jul 27, 2002
I like Peet's idea, but think it'd probably be really, *really* slow to load...
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Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted Jul 27, 2002
I fancy some red myself. In fact, this may seem slightly diabolical (in the literal sense) but I think a red and black colour scheme would be 'mighty fine'.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jul 27, 2002
Strider, it would take about two hundred bytes of javascript to implement; less than the size of a single roll-over... 
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Sierra Indigo - now Cheesecakethulhu flavoured Posted Jul 27, 2002
Dark Purple, Dark Blue, Dark Green? Hoorah! Bring on the colours 
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NMcCoy (attempting to standardize my username across the Internet. Formerly known as Twinkle.) Posted Jul 28, 2002
I'd been working on a modification of the Goo scheme that had sort of a glowy blue/green color scheme, with a black background. Never got it finished, though.
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NMcCoy (attempting to standardize my username across the Internet. Formerly known as Twinkle.) Posted Jul 28, 2002
The above post may be a bit misleading; wasn't doing anything official, just seeing if I could come up with something for my own personal amusement.
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Lighthousegirl - back on board Posted Jul 28, 2002
Now that would be excellent if we could have skins where we chose our own colours! Mind you I guess it would make smilies and blobs etc really difficult 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Jul 28, 2002
Not really... There are two "families" of smileys/blobs, one anti-aliased to black, one anti-aliased to white. They'd just need to add one anti-aliased to a 50% grey, and automatically deliver the one closest in brightness to your chosen background colour. Conceptually, it's pretty trivial. 
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- 1: plato <surfer> (Jul 27, 2002)
- 2: GreyDesk (Jul 27, 2002)
- 3: Sierra Indigo - now Cheesecakethulhu flavoured (Jul 27, 2002)
- 4: GreyDesk (Jul 27, 2002)
- 5: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jul 27, 2002)
- 6: Gnomon - time to move on (Jul 27, 2002)
- 7: Evil Zombie Strider (Jul 27, 2002)
- 8: Lighthousegirl - back on board (Jul 27, 2002)
- 9: GreyDesk (Jul 27, 2002)
- 10: Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk (Jul 27, 2002)
- 11: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jul 27, 2002)
- 12: Evil Zombie Strider (Jul 27, 2002)
- 13: Sierra Indigo - now Cheesecakethulhu flavoured (Jul 27, 2002)
- 14: Evil Zombie Strider (Jul 27, 2002)
- 15: NMcCoy (attempting to standardize my username across the Internet. Formerly known as Twinkle.) (Jul 28, 2002)
- 16: NMcCoy (attempting to standardize my username across the Internet. Formerly known as Twinkle.) (Jul 28, 2002)
- 17: Lighthousegirl - back on board (Jul 28, 2002)
- 18: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Jul 28, 2002)
- 19: Old Uncle Zarniwoop (Jul 28, 2002)
- 20: GreyDesk (Jul 28, 2002)
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