YUM requests (was Re: OT members' ages (was Re: OBNatlang: German Pronunciation))

>> http://www.kemenel.org/conlang/yum/ otherwise known as "Yer Ugly
>> Mug",
Sorry for offtopic, but

Is it me, or is the Gates mugshot so prominently present
on every page kind of irritating? It's not a logo, because
it's too big for a logo (325x227), and it's a photo of
a man who is disliked by many and has very little to do with
conlanging. If I were designing the YUM, I might leave Bill
on the index page, but remove him from other pages,
especially from profile.php, or replace with a much smaller
(1/6th or so) thumbnail.

Functionality-wise: form-based search in a database of 64
records doesn't make a lot of sense, since browsing-based
manual search is much easier. However, browsing only sorts
the records by number (or YUM join date), which is rather
irrelevant. I would add more browsing links, to get lists
by Name, Country, Age, Conlang Join Date, etc. They would
have shortcut links ("C" for names starting with C, "Age
30-35", "Member of the Communist Party since 1917", er,
I mean, member of Conlang since diku.dk, and so on.)

Vladimir

PS. Iain, if necessary, I could help with PHP programming...

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