Hi,
I agree with Gonzalo that pointing to some generic site is of no much
help. Besides, I was the one who suggested him to use Pelican because we
need something easy to build from simple sources, instead of something
really beautiful (using templates and bootstrap themes) that afterwards
be hard to update.
I like the design showcased by Gonzalo but I have some suggestions:
1. I'd like to see more content on the front page. For inspiration I can
cite:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/pro/
https://enterprise.github.com/
Not all content has to be in the main page, but at least the more
relevant features (Editor, Variable Explorer, etc) would be fine :-)
Else the site seems too "naked" :-)
2. Above the banner I'd like to see something like there is in old site:
the Spyder logo and some text about its usefulness.
3. As Anatoly mentioned eariler, perhaps using red for buttons would be
a better match with Spyder logo. That's what I tried to with the old site.
I also agree with Gonzalo that the purpose of the new website should be
to attract new users. For developers is that we are moving to Github. It
would also be better for them to improve our docs.
Finally, I think using rst for the docs and markdown for the new site
and blog is fine. I don't expect huge amounts of content coming to the
blog, and markdown is easy enough for people to get used to it quite
easily, while rst has its quirks.
Cheers,
Carlos
El 11/01/15 a las 13:33, Gonzalo A. PEÑA CASTELLANOS escribió:
@tectonik
First and foremost: I am not a website designer, I am a Civil Engineer
Second: If you see a design that you subjectively or objectively like
then point me to it and then perhaps I can replicate it, otherwise the
site will remain mostly as showcased. Pointing to a general site with
stock designs serves me no purpose, if you have a clear idea of what
you would like to see, then please point to it.
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.
A lot of people tend to thinks academia is an objective and proactive
environment... reality check it is not like that and whatever works on
the outside world has its own twisted equivalent in academia.
Before developers, people are users, and users are attracted with nice
looking things... website, interface etc...
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