[Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

[Martin]

On 04/02/2010 05:24, Paul van Helden wrote:
>
> It seems a significant portion of open source projects pick some 
> animal, almost as some type of "mascot", and that is cool. There isn't 
> one example, however, that I can think of where such website looks 
> like some page on National Geographic. From penguins to tortoises to 
> bats, they all have a smallish and tastefully done emblem (nearly 
> always cartoon-like) of their chosen animal, usually sitting 
> non-intrusively in the top left corner of the site. I vote for simply 
> using the "paw" (/images/splash_source/paw.png). It is a beautiful 
> piece of artwork.

I had the "National Geographic" impression too... I did like the 
proposal from Bee Jay ( 
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/676/lazwebnewsubpage030210.png  )

But yes whatever icon/animal, IMHO it should be one of the ones already 
in use.

>
> A related topic that's been bothering me: can we please discuss a name 
> change for Lazarus as well? It's not like a name change will hurt the 
> project at this stage, methinks...
>
  -1

I don't see why changing the name. Any Name except for "Pascal RAD-IDE" 
needs branding => users have to learn to associate it with a pascal RAD-IDE.

Martin