About the Belly dance Color Widget

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Generally speaking....

The 85-by-85-pixel icon should fit well with other applications (such as livejournal and my own community dance site), but this does limit your name as displayed to about 14 characters.

Colors are determined with a simple red-green-blue mix based on where you leave the sliders when you hit the button. There are 101 levels of each color, meaning you will end up with one of about a million specific colors. More importantly humans are good at processing similar colors, so you don't have to get totally precise. Colors that are visually similar indicate dancers that have similar preferences

The eight belly dancer-color archetypes, for your reference:
Private, earthy, experimental - Black
Private, earthy, traditional - Green
Private, glittery, experimental - Red
Private, glittery, traditional - Yellow
Public, earthy, experimental - Blue
Public, earthy, traditional - Cyan
Public, glittery, experimental - Magenta
Public, glittery, traditional - White

So, what's the point? No point really, it's mostly for fun, but.... wait! there's more! This thing could even be a useful widget

If you're looking for a particular kind of dancer (say.... a public, earthy, experimental dancer) to build a new troupe, then you can look for dancers displaying the right color (say... something blue-ish). This isn't going to narrow it down very far, but it's supposed to at least get you in the right "family." You'll still have to fight over the precise definitions of "classical egyptian cabaret" - but at least you'll be fighting with other white-ish dancers :)

quotes about the widget from the widget's adoring fans! "the widget is psychic!" "Yeah, I have nothing else better to do right now..." "Ok. Odd. But of course, I did it too."

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2005.12.29:

• The widget makes it to Russia.

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2005.09.27:

• Added some choice quotes (see above).
• Cleaned up the update list (see this).

2005.05.04:

• Fixed the broken parameter-passing situation. Your name should now appear.

2005.05.03:

• Added "what is your belly dance color?" text to link code, for livejournal-friendliness (thanks caretaker)
• Shortened the link code for the components
• Tightened up the parameter-passing a bit so defaults don't have to get dragged around the whole internet

2005.04.29:

• Added "do over" to the results page with link back home
• Fixed the missing-scrollbars problem with the css

2005.04.27:

• This site now the first hit for bellydance color on Google.
• Moved results-explanation text from the index page to the results page, since that made more sense
• Made the icon on the results page link to the front page, as the copyable text suggests

2005.04.21:

• Dropped text from the auto-generated link-code

2005.04.20:

• Added more-prominent links to the about page and from the about page back to the main page

2005.04.19:

• Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict (for the geeks out there).

  

  CSS is still not valid, but making it valid breaks some stuff.
• Added Google ads (cover the hosting) and one.org banner ad (do some good).
• Expanded text/explanation on the main page and added this about page.
• Expanded results page so you see both the graphic and the code to paste on websites

2005.04.18:

• First whack at the code. Three-dimension model, using three primary colors.
• Using sexy slider script from Erik Arvidsson.
• Limited private testing. Thanks to my guinneapigs for playing along.

To-do:

• Clean up and validate styles.
• Sexier beveled icon image.
• Add graphics for props.
• Add graphics for teacher and experience.
• Consolidate and reduce server load.