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
