(Sorry for the last email - I thought I'd saved it to drafts, but sent it by
mistake, half-finished.)

Making a nice-looking, navigation-based front page is a high priority. That
means we need good images for key categories - the idea is to show them in
thumbnail form next to the category links..

Here are the ones I've found - they'll need to be cropped to the same aspect
ratio (square is easiest), and of course they'll all be the same size when
used. If noone has a better image or advice, I'll go with my favorite image
(listed first) for each category.

*Community:*

My favorite:

[image: A photo of Takoma Village Cohousing with some of its residents,
April 2002] <http://www.appropedia.org/Image:Takoma_Village_Cohousing.jpg>

(that's a co-housing community.)

Alternatives include:
  <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hold_my_hand.jpg>

 <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guaricano-Bambini.JPG>
  *Food and agriculture:*

This is my favorite:
  <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nectarines_early_morning.jpg>
 Alternatives include:
 <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nectarines_early_morning02.jpg>

<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nectarines_summer_2006_edit.jpg>
 Nectarines summer
20…<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nectarines_summer_2006_edit.jpg>
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nectarines_early_morning02.jpg>

 <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CSA_Haul_the_First.jpg>
  <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CSA_Haul_the_First.jpg>

 <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clagett_Farm_CSA_Week_11.jpg>

 <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mango_maracay.JPG>

 <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manga-fruta.jpg>

<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manga-fruta.jpg>

--
Chris Watkins (a.k.a. Chriswaterguy)

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I like this: five.sentenc.es

Hello,

You (we) could also chose a lot of different images and make them change
every day or every week with a simple template using magic words (
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#Date_.26_time) and parser
functions.

Example for 1 image for each month:

{{#switch: {{CURRENTMONTH}}
 |01=[[Image:4-Stroke-Engine.gif]]
 |02=[[Image:4-Stroke-Engine.gif]]
 |03=[[Image:4-Stroke-Engine.gif]]
 |04=[[Image:4-Stroke-Engine.gif]]
 |05=[[Image:4-Stroke-Engine.gif]]
 |06=[[Image:4-Stroke-Engine.gif]]
 |07=[[Image:4-Stroke-Engine.gif]]
 |08=[[Image:4-Stroke-Engine.gif]]
 |09=[[Image:4-Stroke-Engine.gif]]
 |10=[[Image:4-Stroke-Engine.gif]]
 |11=[[Image:4-Stroke-Engine.gif]]
 |12=[[Image:4-Stroke-Engine.gif]]

2009/2/20 Chris Watkins <chriswater...@appropedia.org>