How to attach pictures for this wiki page click on Edit Page at the end of the file, and then type attachment:filename.jpg When you save the page, you are presented with a link that should look similar like this: 'Upload new attachment "filename.jpg"'. This allows you to upload your file.
Just to show that it works:
Here's my quick attempt at a logo:
This is not meant seriously and I'm sure you can do better, so please have a go at it.
Por:
Hehee.. //Tuomas
Looks like a good start, Tuomas... maybe you should add something 'builder'. Something that makes it show the "home building" aspect. Could you remove the "chinese stuff" ? How about copyright ? Did you shoot the picture? --Manuel
Yeah, it's my own photo - the chinese is from the original livery. But it was just a quickie, what we should actually do is a "web button" so people can put it on their own websites as a link here. That would be useful. Lets see if we get good ideas.. //Tuomas
Why don't we make a big one (like it is right now) for the top-left corner (to get rid of the moinmoin logo) and a smaller one as a "web button". --Manuel
Here's some quick ideas... CaptnKebec
How about that?
I will have more coming... Arthur Prather ProjectB767
If someone is interested, I can render a picture with the 'Varxec Font' like this one:
just with 'wiki.varxec.net'... (this 'font' is not really a TrueType or Postscript Font, although some characters are already in that format. I just use blender to render 3D images like the one above. --Manuel
Well. Render "wiki.varxec.net" and put it on top there as the logo.. I really would rather see all this energy put towards the real content
//Tuomas
Ok, I did. In the background is a B717 front. But this is NOT the final logo of course. I'm still waiting for something that everybody likes and agrees upon as the official Logo
--Manuel
My opinion is that this "font" is rather unreadable. Pls tel me why you want to use it ? (--Por)
You are right. Its more of a Logo font. It is THE varxec font.
The font and the name were developed together (many years ago, long before I registered a varxec domain name.) Of course it doesn't have to go into the wiki.varxec.net logo
--Manuel
Ok then, what is varxec ? Or what does it stand for ? (--Por)
Shouldnt life have any secrets?
//Tuomas
OK, here's the explanation for 'varxec':
Many years ago, I liked inventing (Company-/Produkt-)Names.
I was looking for something that sounds cool and uses "not so commonly used" letters of the alphabet.
I liked the name "Sparc". (=> The name of the line of CPUs used in Sun Microsystems Workstations and servers).
Well, I came up with "Varx". Sounds kind of similar to Sparc and uses 'x' and 'v'.
A few years later, I was in the process of setting up a webpresence for my personal use. I checked
for domains with 'varx'. The .com was already taken. I didn't want to get in any kind of naming conflict, so
I tried changing my 'varx' a little... and came up with varxec. I tried to see if the web had anything with the string 'varxec' in it by using search engines. There were no occurences. There wasn't any domain 'varxec' .com/.net/.org/.de so I went ahead and used the name 'varxec' from then on.
The 'varxec font' started as a "scribble"-design on a piece of paper (probably out of boredom :-). The first letters of the font were: 'V', 'A', 'R', 'X'. The first incarnation was slanted right, not left as it is now. There were a few tiny differences as well.
Some time later I developed the other characters. I once even had numbers, but I haven't seen that piece of paper for a long time.
The basic idea of the font was blocks with parts shifted around, and the whole thing slanted. Check the 'E' or the 'D'. The middle bar of the 'E' could be "shifted" in the main block, same with the 'D'.
Thats it. Now you know the story.
--Manuel
