[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, everybody, for the excellent feedback and suggestions
for revising the SQLite website. Please keep the comments
coming.
Regarding the basic "look" of the site, we were considering
using a style similar to the once found at ActiveState
http://www.activestate.com/
However, as we started to prototype this, we wrote down a
very simple CSS/Javascript-free template and after looking
at it, thought that this template might actually be better.
By being CSS and Javascript-free, the new design also stays
closer to the minimalist spirit of SQLite.
A rough prototype of what a revised website might look like
can be seen at
http://sqlite.hwaci.com/
Please note that there are a lot of non-working links in this
demo - it is just concept demo. And nobody is especially
happy with the content of the homepage. (Suggestions for
what should appear on the homepage are welcomed.)
We are also working on a more elaborate concept that involves
lots of CSS and javascript, pulldown menus, graphics, after
the style of http://www.activestate.com/. Depending on how
it looks in the end, we might or might not put the second
up for review later today or Monday.
Please continue to provide feedback.
--
D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Complex web sites look stylish but quickly become tedious when used
frequently. An elegant design approach is "Adaptive Input", where the
user can select ever more input-driven interfaces to speed access and
reward familiarity.
I find that to use the Firefox Firebug debugger and look at the files
loaded from a website and the time taken is very significant. The
elaborate web page which loads 300 files is unmasked for what it is, a
time and resource squanderer.
The Activestate web page loads about 15 files and on my desktop loads
and renders in 950mS. The current Sqlite.org page loads two files and
completes in 500Ms, half the time of Activestate.
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