This looks really nice overall---a few suggestions (1) I think a sans-serif font looks better as the base font. A matter of taste, I suppose. But I think that it's generally clearer for a web page, as opposed to reading a book or article. It looks cleaner too.
(2) Maybe this is what you mention with the screen shots---they come up pretty slowly, for one thing, but something more important---the big comment at the bottom appears a single line, which is wider than the screen. I don't know if it's possible to make this wrap, or else maybe just shorten the text. (3) In the download links area, the word "build" appears by itself on a new line. Shouldn't this all be kept on one line? Maybe the word "download" is unnecessary in "older download" and "newer download", since it's all under the heading "downloads," and since links consisting of the version number are pretty much self-documenting. (3.5) Radical proposal: Make the downloads links the same width at the main text; move the sidebar with the screen shots up so that it's flush with the top edge of the main text, i.e., the top of where the downloads links are. (4) The raised dot before "Mac Bibliography editor" makes it look like ".Mac bibliography editor." (5) Should it say something about BibTeX on the home page? (6) Should it say something about managing PDF's and other attached files, managing references, and in general organizing them? This is something we're always saying seems to come as a surprise to users. I think that Reference manager or bibliography management tool or something else probably a better description than bibliography editor. (In the above two comments, I mean, should it say something more prominent about these things---it does say something in the main text, but that's probably the last thing people will look at---I think a bullet list of features like on the current home page is better.) Great job on this, I hope you appreciate the comments from someone who is definitely way too neurotic about web page design/architecture. On Mar 4, 2009, at 2:09 AM, Sven-S. Porst wrote: > … moving the discussion from the bug tracker to this more accessible > venue: > > I started looking into cleaning up the BibDesk home page and put a > first attempt here: > > http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/bibdesk/bibdesk/ > > It's still unfinished (the screenshot zooming doesn't work reliably, > the font choices may deserve further thought and testing) and this > would be a good opportunity to add comments/critiques before I try to > get the details right. > > I'd also like to know whether or not bandwidth usage is an issue, so > the design can be more conservative if needed. > > Best > > Sven > > -- > Sven-S. Porst . http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp . AIM: cv47al > Pass as best inventor! > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San > Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the > Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source > participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source > code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-develop mailing list > Bibdesk-develop@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop ------------------ Adam M. Goldstein PhD, MSLIS -- agoldst...@iona.edu a.m.goldst...@mac.com http://www.iona.edu/faculty/agoldstein -- (914) 637-2717 -- Dept of Philosophy Iona College 715 North Avenue New Rochelle NY 10801 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list Bibdesk-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
