On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:19 PM, Gonzalo A. PEÑA CASTELLANOS <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unfortunately... or fortunately due to the colors used in the actual logo... > it is hard to find anything that looks ok with red (#FF0000) beyond active > links and some buttons.
I am not sure why you need to mix buttons and links on the logo. > The logo of spyder does not represent the look of spyder, maybe it would be > a nice opportunity to see a redesign. But I do give you this: Spyder does > look like the old website, and this is by no means a compliment, Spyder > interface is showing its age... (separate thread...) The remark was not about logo, but about overall theme of site that doesn't match the theme of actual IDE, and my subjective feeling is that Spyder look that matches new site would be ugly. > The site is supposed to appeal to new users into taking Spyder as a serious > alternative. In the institute where I work and where I am pushing for > Spyder/Python as the main tools for Scientific Research and Computing, > professors and lecturers need to feel that project (being open source) is > serious enough and this will be achieved once several things are in place, > where a clean looking website is one of them. But little or no customized bootstrap design is cheap one, and even modern flat themes look like they are from stock themes site. Stock design doesn't make your product more outstanding or awesome, it just shows that project has a webpage and probably lacks skills or resources to do something unique. I also don't know why you need site to promote Spyder in scientific circles using such methods. I thought that scientific community makes decisions for IDE mostly on objective criteria, such as features, usability, openness and fitness for particular task (including price and integration/extensibility) rather than web site design. People also don't like pushing and promotion, so if they find that user experience of Spyder is worse than advertised, expect a tons of negative feelings about that. > With this in mind, I am taking elements from the matlab and R studio website > (mostly this last one). The guys from R Studio are doing an amazing job and > we should learn from them. R Studio site is really bland and typical site that I usually bounce off. I don't see anything exciting there. I'd advise something like https://wrapbootstrap.com/ for inspiration of generic design capabilities. But each site has a goal. One of the goals of Spyder IDE site is showcase of usability and main features of IDE, yes. But its primary goal is to take as many people as possible helping to develop its features, fixing bugs and working on visualizing its internals. The focus on open source and community requires a very different structure. http://www.blender.org/ may be a better example. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
