"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Antoine, | | Thank you very much for the comment. I have made some | changes and look forward to further suggestions.
Hi Bill, I find the front page of Axiom quite "visually heavy" -- and many times I miss there the information I'm looking for. So, I took a look at few free software or open source computer algebra systems, to see what other people are up to. http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ http://yacas.sourceforge.net/ http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/ http://turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~gap/ All of them appears to me to be quite simple -- and I like that simplicity. Especially that of Maxima. It takes very little time to display -- compared to Axiom's. Important to me is that the front-page must send the message that this is related to research. Yes, we have links to workshops and all that. But, most importantly, links to reserach papers related to Axiom must be clearly and unambigously linked from there -- I sent a message to axiom-mail to that effect but for some reasons it never shows up :-( My suggestion would be to simplify the "visual load" of the front-page. I know that sounds a bit unhelpful but it is a start of suggestion :-) People should be able to find the exciting/appealing things about Axiom from its front-page. We should not require them to "dig through". To my mind the description of Axiom should should mention application to engineering, computer science -- not just Physics or Mathematics. HTH, -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
