kerjodando goes to LRUG (London Ruby Users Group)

Attended the recent Ruby on Rails user group meeting in London. It was very useful. I made one contact. This is what I saw.

Updated itsDargens Website

The www.itsDargens.com website has been updated.

Please report any bugs - thanks.

A further cosmetic update is due within the next week.

The priority for work from now on will be the development of an improved ANts p2p.

Beta Testing of New Ants P2P File Sharing Mod - Your Help is Needed [Urgent]

Sorry to ask but please could you help me to test the new mod of ANts p2p (kerjodando).

Would you also pass this post on to anyone who can help in testing.

To focus the testing it is BEST if everyone uses this meetup (swarm):

http://www.itsdargens.com/swarm/show_one/6ad9b233a173d19782cd03ac4b175fe6

Click on Start to launch the modded ANts p2p client (kerjodando).

Bug fixes to the itsDargens.com (ANts content layer) website are currently been worked on.

Also, an new USER FRIENDLY GUI for ANts p2p II that will be web based.

Please let me know your ideas.

I also need people to help me with the admin of a new sourceforge project site for:

• ANts p2p II
• kerjodando ipfilter.dat sharing and
  
• itsDargens.com content layer for anonymous p2p

So please email me if you can help.

ezzy.elliott@gmail.com

Ruby on Rail For Faster Downloads Updated

The website has been updated. Should be easier to connect to download faster.

Also, new "look and feel", see above, done by a new web designer. She is from Shanghai and I think her design show promise.





Do the following to download test MP3 / video and share your files.



Click of link HERE >>>>then download Thingy opens (yes to all questions) >>>>>connect>>>>>>search>>>>>download small file>>>END






You can look at "Test Swarm" page on Dargens here with out opening the download Thingy.



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2nd Draft of Look and Feel Still Disappoints

Still not remotely what we asked for but neater and more airy.

Look and Feel Disappointment

Just got the first draft of look and feel from "web designer". Very disappointed. Further drafts can only be an improvement.

Look and Feel of Dargens (aka kerjodando p2p)

We have started working on the "Look and Feel" of the website.

Trine has come up with the ideas and I have tried to translate them into language that a web designer would understand.

The main features on this Look and Feel are:

Random pictures displayed in an old fashioned Television (TV) set.

The random pictures (from recently on-line swarm pages) are hidden by a blank TV screen when the site is first loaded.

The pictures are revealed when mouse/cursor ROLLS-OVER the TV.

The website should have the three main colours as the attached ear-ring on pdf (white, black and burnt orange).

The site should be mainly black and white with burnt orange.

The website should be framed and have a hand drawn look.

Trine has come up with some sample fonts for the look and feel:

• the beggars banquet font as on the record sleeve is to be used for the Dargens logo
• the other fonts indicate the retro feel of the site (back to the 60/70/80s) so similar to these can be used in the site
• the other fonts also give an indication that the site has to be ornate with hand draws motifs, swirls and frames.

Trine has also come up with some examples of hand draw motifs for the site.

These can be a part of the frame (as in picture frame not html frame!).

The key motifs are the old fashioned TV and cuckoo clock.

The aim of the motifs is to give the site a retro look.

Imagine we had the internet in 1969 what would web pages have looked like. It is the age of the Beatles etc.

Key images here are the carousel and the bookcase containing books and TV.

The next step is to get a "strawman" mock-up from the web designer and try to agree on design by the end of Novemberr 2006.