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There should be a button for newcomers to hit. It should be small, modest but distinctive, say a rounded rectangle in the top center, or else one of several buttons 40% up the page but below the ideonomy (site) icon. Perhaps a red button, but the type should be bold, very simple and plain and not hurt by red being near. Perhaps it could flash once on arrival, along with a distinctive sound or tune (like the opening chords of Beethoven's fifth symphony - or something great from my huge library that NO ONE will know). That icon I designed for ideonomy in 1984 could be used: a torch burning over the infinity symbol 8, horizontal. It could always appear first when anyone steps into the Site. It could be large on the screen; perhaps the flames could even be crudely animated! The opening map of ideonomy's key divisions, whether a globe or flat, could be clickable on the points or countries representing the small set of most prominent divisions, to cause the rest of the divisions, of increasi

Untitled The following is the dream of Patrick Gunkel about this website. RECEPTION TO NEWCOMERS Back to the home page The first page (first screen seen): There should be a button for newcomers to hit. It should be small, modest but distinctive, say a rounded rectangle in the top center, or else one of several buttons 40% up the page but below the ideonomy (site) icon. Perhaps a red button, but the type should be bold, very simple and plain and not hurt by red being near. Perhaps it could flash once on arrival, along with a distinctive sound or tune (like the opening chords of Beethoven's fift

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