Nicely done! On Apr 7, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Thomas Schilling wrote:
> http://i.imgur.com/kFqP3.png Didn't know about CSS's "rgba" to > describe transparency. Very useful. > > On 7 April 2010 18:19, Gregory Crosswhite <gcr...@phys.washington.edu> wrote: >> Ooo, I really like this revision; it is a major improvement in your design! >> I particularly like the picture you chose for the top, and the new way that >> you have laid out all of the boxes and made the bottom right box a different >> shade so that it is easier to distinguish it as a different column. Also, I >> concur with your use of the "inverted pyramid model", even if it comes at >> the expense of a little redundancy. >> >> My only quibble is that I don't like the fact that the summary text at the >> top has a font background color, so that there are in essence several boxes >> around the text of different sizes and with space in between the lines. I >> recognize that the purpose of the font background was to help the text >> contrast with the picture behind it, but it would be nicer if there were a >> better solution, such as by putting a box around all of the text and then >> filling that with color (so there aren't boxes of different sizes containing >> the text and empty spaces between the lines), or by putting a translucent >> box around the text so that we can still see the background but it's faded a >> bit so that the text still shows up. >> >> Cheers, >> Greg >> >> On Apr 7, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Thomas Schilling wrote: >> >>> Yup, I have to agree. The Ruby web site certainly is the best web >>> site for a programming language that I've come across, but it's >>> certainly not "amazing". I like the python documentation design, but >>> their home page is a bit dull. Anyway, here's another variation, this >>> time with more colour: >>> >>> http://i.imgur.com/Lj3xM.png >>> >>> The image is about 80k (while the website alone is < 10k) so I hope >>> there won't be any bandwidth issues. Regarding the particular >>> contents: >>> >>> (a) I won't post another version for every tiny wibble. You know, >>> you can actually post text via email (yes, really!) so if anyone has >>> improvements for how the sections should look like, post the suggested >>> alternative contents on this list. >>> >>> (b) A little redundancy is no problem at all. I try to follow the >>> inverted pyramid model: put all the important information at the top, >>> and add more details below. If that leads to a small amount of >>> duplication so be it. >>> >>> (c) As mentioned before, we don't want a perfect home page, we >>> simply want a better one. Incremental improvements can be made later >>> on. >>> >>> (d) Who actually *can* update the homepage? Ian, Ross, Malcolm, Simon M? >>> >>> (e) I don't have an iPhone, *Droid, or iPad, so I'd need some help >>> testing on any of those. >>> >>> (f) The design is not fixed width, and most sizes are specified in >>> terms of font size or percentages. I merely added a max-width >>> restriction so that it still looks decent on maximised screens. I >>> tried to remove it, but that just doesn't look good anymore. >>> >>> On 7 April 2010 14:19, Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fisc...@web.de> wrote: >>>> Am Mittwoch 07 April 2010 04:09:17 schrieb Gregory Crosswhite: >>>>> While I think that (d) is a valid concern, it is also important not to >>>>> let the perfect be the enemy of the good. If we agree that the proposed >>>>> web site layout is sufficiently better than the current one and is "good >>>>> enough" aesthetically, then I think we should go ahead and switch to the >>>>> new layout and *then* start thinking about how we could make it >>>> >>>> Good plan. >>>> >>>>> *completely amazing* like the Ruby web site, >>>> >>>> www.ruby-lang.org ? >>>> >>>> Sure, that looks pretty good, but "completely amazing"? >>>> >>>>> because if we demand >>>>> completely amazing for our *first* try then I fear that all that will >>>>> happen is that nothing will change because the bar will have been set >>>>> too high. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Greg >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >>>> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >>>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Push the envelope. Watch it bend. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >>> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >>> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> >> > > > > -- > Push the envelope. Watch it bend. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
