[Cheesehead Dave]

@CB&MB wrote:

@Buy_The_Tie wrote:

Oh my! 😳

It is my understanding that any decisions made on behalf of the club ultimately *ARE* made by the Board Of Directors.

WOW! Sorry for thinking that the BOD was a democratic body! Sorry for being under the impression that even though we know the BOD has the final word, it would allow the lowly members who voted them in to offer opinions that “ultimately” matter to the entire “club”…

Sadly, I see more and more why people step away from the WGA as a whole.

Oh and while we’re all so impressed with “Dave’s design” of a logo (which I do like), I wonder if anyone else (besides the two of us) has noticed that there are a lot of political signs and billboards using his design for candidates in various races this year. Hmmmmm, Dave’s design or plagiarism?…I wonder!

Not that I’m discounting your opinions, but please start a new thread instead of derailing this one.

And for the record, that style of design is a fairly common one. I didn’t steal it from any political signs.

I “stole” it from the WSGA… 😉

[Cheesehead Dave]

Disclaimer: The spinning one was a joke… 🙄

[Cheesehead Dave]

@PCFrog wrote:

Can you make the state go from lager to smaller and back while it rotates?

@Cheesehead Dave wrote:

@EnergySaver wrote:

It doesn’t seem to spin, blink or change … but I like it too!

Better?

I felt dirty creating this in the first place. Please don’t make me edit it some more… 😕

[Cheesehead Dave]

ExpertGPS will as well. You can also import scanned maps and overlay your imported tracks.

[Cheesehead Dave]

@EnergySaver wrote:

It doesn’t seem to spin, blink or change … but I like it too!

Better?

[Cheesehead Dave]

@PCFrog wrote:

Vector not rastor.

That will clear up the logo as it is resized.

It was vector when I resized it. The Impact font just doesn’t look very good at small sizes.

[Cheesehead Dave]

@Jeremy wrote:

@Cheesehead Dave wrote:

I wouldn’t use it as an “official” WGA logo, but if you want to scrutinize it, here it is in a few sizes

I like it a lot… could this be the new WGA logo we’ve been talking about for some time? 🙂 It would take a Board vote to change the current logo to this one… so for now this logo will only be available from Dave’s site.

I concur. This is only a suggestion on my part. Others may come up with something better. Anyway, it’s not official, so don’t use this!

The only issue I have with it is the readability of the “Wisconsin Geocaching Association” text at the medium size and smaller. Maybe with a different, less bold and condensed font (or somehow splitting the text onto multiple lines) we could make it more clear at a small size that would be suitable for the upper left of the website.

That’s partly because I just resized the image instead of redoing the text in a smaller font. I agree though, it’s hard to read at a smaller size. That’s why I left it off the “small” version altogether.

And I’m not sure if it would look better or worse with a connecting green line at the top of the big ‘G’… I would want to see it both ways.

I did it that way on purpose. The “G” is meant to be transparent so if you put it on a t-shirt or something, the “G” would become the color of the shirt:

Here it is with a line on the top and bottom:

[Cheesehead Dave]

I wouldn’t use it as an “official” WGA logo, but if you want to scrutinize it, here it is in a few sizes:

Small:

Medium:

Large:

[Cheesehead Dave]

@Jeremy wrote:

The Spelling Cow spell checker site we use for spell checking forum posts appears to be down…

Is that why the forums kept trying to change my posts to read “Mooooooo moo mooooooo mooo mooo moooooo!”?

[Cheesehead Dave]

[Cheesehead Dave]

Quick and Dirty HTML Guide

[Cheesehead Dave]

It looks pretty much the same, but I updated the banner code with the latest and greatest HTML standards…

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(Click to visit our website)

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Congrats!

I’m also impressed that it’s only the 4th and there’s already ten votes for six different caches for September!

[Cheesehead Dave]

@Buy_The_Tie wrote:

Looks like we got ourselves a good old-fashoned mystery here….

Maybe we can get Shaggy and Scooby on the case?

There are no nearby archived (not listed) caches on geocaching.com. Maybe it is part of another geocaching game? (Navicache or something?)

Or the final stage of a multicache that started somewhere else?

[Cheesehead Dave]

A DeLorme Challenge Calculator Update:

There is now an form on the page where you can take a GPX file derived from a Pocket Query or from clicking the “download GPX file” link at the top of any cache page, upload that, and get a table showing each cache and on what DeLorme atlas page it falls.

This is useful if you’re planning a cache trip and want to see if any of the caches will fall on any pages you might need.

A second, good news/bad news update:

My old hosting provider was having some serious quality of service issues and I decided to move my site over to a new provider. I’m slowly getting everything up and running on the new server, but I’ve encountered an unfortunate limitation: The maximum size of a file upload can only be 15 MB. For most people, that shouldn’t be a problem, but for those whose finds are in the high 1000s, your My Finds PQ might end up being too large to upload. If you’re having troubles with your uploads, please let me know and I’ll work out a way to deal with it.

Edit: I talked them into raising the limit to 15MB!

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