I agree, it's a major improvement. Thanks for working on it! I also think the fonts should be sans-serif, since there aren't lots of blocks of text.
The issue of what to name it is important - we should probably mention both the fact that it helps you manage PDFs and that it's based on BibTeX. (and a front page link to the MacTeX site for people who don't know what BibTeX is wouldn't hurt) Other concepts that might fit on the front page: flexible templates for working with other programs, searching (maybe a search group screenshot or a webgroup screenshot?), and scriptability with a link to the wiki page for scripts... I also wonder about the Autofile Prefs screenshot. It's a great idea to highlight autofile, but without any context, it's not clear why we're showing a screenshot of the prefs... Finally, about bandwidth - I doubt we need to worry about images. I think even screencasts are OK, but might want to check. We're supposed to host downloads on their download servers, so maybe they don't want big files, but "big" is a relative term these days. -mike On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Adam M. Goldstein <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 . 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