Hi Ben, On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Benjamin Schuster-Boeckler wrote: > Ok, let me throw in some comparable projects' websites: > > http://www.r-project.org/ > http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ > http://www.scipy.org/ ... > > None of those are particularly great styles, but they all look professional > and reflect what the user is expecting. I think if you compare them to the > current design, you'll find that
The R site doesn't look professional to me at all. My first thought was "crappy graphics". Octave was better, but I found it uninteresting. SciPy is reasonably nice. I think that when you say "professional" what you *really* mean is "serious". Maybe you feel that the images I chose don't look serious. The R website, for example, does not look professional but it looks serious. > - there are no animated elements on any of the sites. It's distracting, and > rarely useful The MATLAB website has a slideshow too. If you didn't like the slideshow, perhaps you should have brought it up a month ago when I added it. When I added it, several people had opinions and I made every effort to accommodate the changes people asked. I changed the transitions and the timings as people wanted. > - there is a certain consistency in the layout. The current page has too many > pictures in too many different places There is no connection between consistency and many pictures. You might feel that the page has too many images, but that does not make the site inconsistent. I have made great efforts to significantly improve the consistency of the site, both in terms of organization as well as look & feel. You can say that you don't like the icons, but I think that calling the site inconsistent because I added those icons is wrong and slightly nuts because having too many images has nothing to do with consistency. Daniel. -- Intolerant people should be shot. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
