On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 19:01 -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > Hello all, > > Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and > feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people > think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs > that all look nice, although there's a wide range in their design style. So > that our graphic designer can know what kind of general design style would > look good, which ones of the following look best to you guys? > > http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ > http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ > http://www.python.org/ > http://www.scipy.org/ > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ > > If there are other websites that you guys think are particularly well > designed, please let us know!
Rex, Certainly, all of these look better than the current LyX site. My personal favorite is www.ruby-lang.org. But perhaps more important than the appearance is how the site is built. I would suggest the following rules: 1. Use DOCTYPE XHTML (it's the future). 2. Define the appearance entirely in CSS (and keep it reasonably simple). That makes it easy to change if necessary. 3. Avoid using script if possible. Les
