Random pixels

Glad to see the new Friends of GNOME website finally online.
Kalle and I started with this when he and Clemens was over at my place some time ago.

We started with ideas and sketches. We tried a couple of different approaches and ideas for the selection of the donation level and a bunch of different ways of displaying the page where you select your hacker and different illustrations.

Then we took the best sketches and imported those into Inkscape for selecting the best colors, choosing the exact styling of the elements and made sure the text that Stormy provided us with would fit etc.

The last step was the actual html+php+css+jquery voodoo. I spent quite some time battling php (I didn’t really know any php before) to allow the page to display different things on the second page, depending on your choice on the first page and trying to understand how paypal worked exactly. Kalle fixed some jQuery and made sure my broken php snippets would work properly. Collaborating over Dropbox worked pretty well actually.

I also made a banner that all GNOME fans can put on their websites or blogs and link to http://www.gnome.org/friends.

Someone also asked if I could make a general GNOME Lover banner too, so here is that as well.

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