On Aug 19, 2013, at 5:39 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
> 3. It puts more info on the first page.
To my surprise, I like it.
> 4. The font size is larger, which I think makes it much more readable.
Speaking as an old person who has arrived in the age of reading glasses (I
think) I am again surprised to say that I intensely dislike
(1) the large font for the text
and
(2) the lack of white space around the perimeter
Smaller font, more white space would be great.
> Lots of work is still needed if we want to use this as the basis for
> Racket's web page (it's written in raw HTML, other pages would need
> work, etc), but I hope that people like it enough to continue pursuing
> this.
All in all, I really like the idea of renovating our home page. What I would
like to see is that we get
* a distinct home page
* one that brings across that Racket is full spectrum
technically -- you can gradually migrate from untyped to typed, from
modules to components, ...
educationally -- you can grow into Racket starting with Bootstrap,
which I can't find
socially -- you can join a variety of mailing lists, irc channels,
twitter streams, etc.
and that there are many kinds of Racket communities
(edu, research, com, open source, secret cabals)
and more
Yes, I think that it is absolutely totally worthwhile and I am excited that it
is happening.
Yes, I think it will take a serious amount of work and that we're not there
yet.
And I want to thank you and Asumu and everyone who has already sent in comments
on this effort.
-- Matthias
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