30 minutes ago, Asumu Takikawa wrote: > On 2011-12-20 08:02:15 -0500, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > I do NOT like pages that have text below my laptop screen 'fold'. > > My eyes do glaze over. And I am off the page quickly. > > Taking some feedback into account, here's a second mockup: > http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/asumu/racket-home-3/
This is exactly the kind of noise that I dislike... It is significantly wider, the color scheme of the twitter box makes it stand out too much, and the same goes for the italics in the feed and the large line spacing. Oh, and we get to advertise feedburner & twitter as well as longer page view times based on their servers (and if they're down, I'm sure that the twitter box would degrade into *just* an advertisement). [If you still care to play with it: (a) you can try moving the download link to where it was, (b) restore proper spacings around the examples section (they're smashed together on your page), (c) I'd get rid of the "why racket" section -- I don't see anything there that doesn't induce yawnage, (d) it'd be better to have a mockup links & twits manually done, to avoid the style issues. But I wouldn't bother, since I don't see any need for showing the too-few twits & blog posts -- IMO it doesn't work in conveying activity, and in any case it looks like such an indication of "active" is inherently achieved by making a messy page.] > It leaves all the content "above the fold" but fits in more by using > a fluid 12-column based layout (credit to http://cssgrid.net/). If > you resize the browser window it will re-align the layout. Ooh, be extra suspicious of such things, as tempting as they are. IME, they are much worse to deal with than the usual browser incompatibilities in JS code. Debugging clever CSS layouts gets you all kinds of blood spitting because of stray pixel spacing, and there no sane way to debug it other than viewing it in all browsers. In addition, they often require global changes to the header, which then leaks to other places like the blog header, and things break in even more frustrating ways. On a quick glance of your page when it's narrow: the exaples are completely garbled; the order of sections becomes a mess of [propaganda] [download] [examples] [blog] [more propaganda] [twitter]; the header seems to take the same space but it is cropped at the screen width (actually the background image is similarly cropped too); section headers don't have enough vertical spacing before them. > The extra content in the space is a twitter/blog feed in the mockup, > but it could be something else as well. I think that a prerequisite for any effort on this is an answer to this question: what is an additional content that people *want* to see on the front page. -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
