Poll regarding Youngcomposers welcome screen

I'm sorry to put it in this format, but despite the (honestly) great things that have been done for this board, one gets a slight feeling of this being someone's empire - and that everyone should know - which is what a few of the old regulars may have reservations about. If the name was put there by Mark (or someone else), I apologise.

Also, some say that 'critique' shouldn't be used as a verb.

Let's have a contest for the opening page design and/or statement.

I agree, Stefan. I believe Michael is away on holiday at the moment, so I took the liberty of editing some elements of the front page in his absence. If he is around, I hope he didn't mind...

I'm stumped as to what to replace "critiqued" with, so any suggestions will be appreciated.

"To get a critique of your music...", maybe?

The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary allows for the word critique as a transitive verb. It is an American dictionary, however, I believe. Had I an Oxford unabridged, I'd consult it.

I have a feeling that some people might not know the word "critique", so I changed that part to this: "To obtain feedback on your music from fellow composers". I also altered some other elements of the description.

At some point the HTML code on that page needs to be tidied up too, as it's currently not valid HTML 4.01 Transitional.

Thanks Mike. :) And good point about the HTML! I'm sure David will be pleased too. :)

Lots of smileys here... :)

And to be honest - I don't have a problem with using critique as a verb. It's perfectly understandable in meaning and can hardly be seen as some sort of bastardisation of the language. If anything it merely doesn't ahere to the strictest of rules. And there's nothing wrong with breaking a few rules, is there? ;)

Originally posted by stefan inglis+Jul 17 2005, 10:19 AM-->

Thanks Mike. :) And good point about the HTML! I'm sure David will be pleased too. :)

Indeed I will be! But why transitional? It should be strict HTML!

The front page is also made with tables! Lots of sad smileys here... ;)

Viva la (le?) CSS

Eh, I dunno, Chopin did the page. But yes, we should probably use strict HTML, or XHTML. And the CSS will vive once Chopin gets around to doing a proper CSS file.

In terms of the front page, I really like the violin concept.....the cartoon person looks nice too, but I would suggest having the title be bigger in some form......plus, u can also see the edge of the image. If that could be removed, I think it would blend nicely.

We'll sort that out as the page's design develops. :happy:

Mark put a "changing ownership" homepage before I obtained the domain. After I obtained the domain, I added to it until the design was a little bit more ready.

Putting my name on the front page served 2 purposes:

1. So you guys can get to know me.

2. An experiment to see if the page would have been found by that phrase.

I felt it was necessary to let most of the old forum members know the site had a new owner (so did Mark) because many things would change...and it was just temporary while the forums changed over. I am in the process of trying to design the permanent page, and content :happy:

This poll is a bit meaningless now, but it's an interesting piece of history.

And the reason you posted in it and pointlessly revived it? :blink:

I'd really like to know...

He was bored. And now Anders's gone again he wants to increase his post count as there's less chance of it being docked.