Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-04-02 Thread Thomas Schilling
How about something more colourful? http://i.imgur.com/7jCPq.png The Get Haskell box should of course be a shiny button. A shadow separating the content box from the background would probably also be a good idea. But the main point is: less dull colours, and the important links should go at

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-04-01 Thread Christopher Done
On 31 March 2010 12:01, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: - There are several news streams going on at once. Perhaps Headlines and Events could be merged into one stream. After watching the Hackage RSS feed every day I don't know if it's interesting enough to put on a front page.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-04-01 Thread Twan van Laarhoven
Christopher Done wrote: That's true, it's a nice idea but in practice it's hard to know where to focus. I've gone with a left nav. I've built up the HTML which is cross-browser (ie6/7/8/opera/firefox/safari/chrome compat), still need to add some bits but I can tomorrow import it into a wikimedia

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-04-01 Thread Ben Millwood
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Christopher Done chrisd...@googlemail.com wrote: That's true, it's a nice idea but in practice it's hard to know where to focus. I've gone with a left nav. I've built up the HTML which is cross-browser (ie6/7/8/opera/firefox/safari/chrome compat), still need to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-04-01 Thread Ben Millwood
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Ben Millwood hask...@benmachine.co.uk wrote: The easiest thing to do on visiting the website is read about why Haskell is so great, and where to find out how to use it. Uhm, I meant the easiest thing *should be* reading about... Sorry about that.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-31 Thread Johan Tibell
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Christopher Done chrisd...@googlemail.com wrote: This is a post about re-designing the whole Haskell web site. I really like the design a lot. Here are some ideas: - There are several news streams going on at once. Perhaps Headlines and Events could be merged

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-29 Thread Edward Kmett
The main issue I would have with the site design proposed here is that the Download Haskell link that is currently fairly prominent on the page gets shuffled off into oblivion in the footer. However, overall, I think it serves as a good starting point for discussion. -Edward Kmett On Sun, Mar

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-29 Thread Sebastiaan Visser
On Mar 28, 2010, at 10:44 PM, Christopher Done wrote: This is a post about re-designing the whole Haskell web site. We got a new logo but didn't really take it any further. For a while there's been talk about a new design for the Haskell web site, and there are loads of web pages about

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-29 Thread Christopher Done
On 29 March 2010 21:51, Sebastiaan Visser sfvis...@cs.uu.nl wrote: Nice work, definitely beats the current version! A few remarks:  - Please throw in a bit more color somehow. Like said before, this shade of gray is a bit depressive.  - The more links are far to prominent. These links are

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-28 Thread Christopher Done
This is a post about re-designing the whole Haskell web site. We got a new logo but didn't really take it any further. For a while there's been talk about a new design for the Haskell web site, and there are loads of web pages about Haskell that don't follow a theme consistent with Haskell.org's,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-28 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
For the most part, I like it, except for... Christopher Done chrisd...@googlemail.com writes: The colours aren't the most exciting, but someone who's a professional designer could do a proper design. But I like the idea of the site being like this; really busy but not scarily busy. ^^ This.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-28 Thread Christopher Done
On 28 March 2010 22:00, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.comwrote: ^^ This. It's too boring and depressing with all that grayscale. Why not use the coloured version of the logo ( http://haskell.org/sitewiki/images/a/a8/Haskell-logo-60.png ) and base the colour scheme off that?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-28 Thread Don Stewart
This looks great! What are the implementation details of having this go live? * Ashley: would you be able to e.g. install an index.html like this, and hang the wiki under it? * How do we allow editing (by trusted users?) -- Don chrisdone: This is a post about re-designing

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell.org re-design

2010-03-28 Thread Christopher Done
On 28 March 2010 22:54, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: This looks great! What are the implementation details of having this go live? * Ashley: would you be able to e.g. install an index.html like this, and hang the wiki under it? * How do we allow editing (by trusted users?)