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Pics aren't bad, but they take up to much vertical space, can you make the pics for people at least, in two columns? Also, if you add those pics, we should probably drop that little people icon thing. I'm even more interested in making other pages look good. This page is decent, but some of the pages after this get pretty boring and ugly. Daw44 10:34, 22 December 2008 (MST)

Here's what it looks like with two columns on the people section. I'll get working on some of the other pages.--Emetts 10:45, 22 December 2008 (MST)
Looks good. I think we can implement it, but before we do, could you center those boxes in the section? Also, I didn't mind the look in the next section, but I think we need to do some more thinking about the organization of that next section before we worry about what it looks like. Daw44 10:50, 22 December 2008 (MST)
I guess I am one of those old fuddy duddies, but, I like the old design. Whenever I see a page that has pictures/icons that are obviously just from some big general bank of pictures, I am slightly turned off. Also, another contrarian thing--I would much more see more and better content than more glitzy pages. Of course, this is just a personal preference thing--I am not too graphically stimulated, and like webpages like this.--Jlamro 11:31, 23 December 2008 (MST)
I completely agree on content. That is why we have asked so many people to help make content. There are two students hired to help improve the wiki. They have limited exposure to improve content, so I'm having them help in other ways. I think the home page has looked pretty nice, but the other pages, could use some cleaning up (in my opinion). Would you follow this motif throughout the entire website or use the pictures (or none of the above!)? Daw44 11:59, 23 December 2008 (MST)
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