Would anyone like to volunteer to be guest editor this coming week on the Spring's main page? I'd like to see something about childrenstory, Jane Austen and the apps conference... but these are just suggestions. The Spring front page needs a fresh perspective. Something worthy of all the wonderful connotations the name brings up.

How about a logo something like this (on a white background)?

I like it. What do you think of the water background that we have? Kaf' would you like to guest edit for a week? I'm pretty sure you have access to /var/www/docs where the Spring page resides. Be my guest if you'd like.

I like the green, Kaf.

I'll take a stab at it Terry. I like the water background - but in general, I think that backgrounds look better on personal home pages than on professional sites. Would you mind if I tried it without one? I intentionally used the P&P green, so that there would be continuity between the main site page and the (eventual) P&P page. :)

You have total artistic freedom, kaf. I love the pages I've seen of yours, especially Banderas and Childrens Story. The only little tweak childrens story needs is getting realaudio links on the stories themselves. Would you say it's ready for primetime? Childrens Story as the lead on the Spring main page? How about a discussion group on Banderas and a link to your site? How about mirroring the Banderas site here on a dedicated address? I bet you could think up a cool name we could register. (unless, of course, you're bound to have Banderas exclusively where it is). Let your imagaination run wild.

Actually, Terry, I've been giving some thought to your questions about how to attract new conferences. It seems to me that the fan sites are always starting mailing lists or bulletin boards - but many people who start fan sites don't have access to a cgi-bin or mailing list software - they could generate a lot of traffic here. I'd like to add a section of the spring homepage to welcoming fan sites to the spring. I don't think that I'd want to mirror the entire Banderas site here, but I might consider moving my Bulletin board over - it would generate traffic second only to the P&P conference. My only hesitation is that many people might not like the yapp interface initially (as happened with P&P) - I don't want to alienate people for no good reason. (BTW, I should mention that I was one of the people who didn't like the yapp interface at first, but now prefer it - but not everyone has come around.) I think maybe what we should do is create a Banderas conference here, I'll set up some topics, and then I'll invite everyone over here to try it out. Then let the majority rule - if they want to stay with Matt's script, or move over to the spring. Oh, and Re:RealAudio files. Susan hasn't been available this week to record hers, but we have a firm appointment on Sunday to get it done - so I should have those links ready by Sunday night.

That's a great idea to move the Banderas discussion here. I think if we get enough fan groups here there could be an interesting intermingling. Please go ahead with this. What are some other fan groups that you would like to see here?

Terry - The page of the week is now up and running.

I made a few minor additions to keep the users pages alive and put links on the conference references. Wow, it looks good and tells our story. Nice!