I like it a lot. I have a few aesthetic complaints:
1) Use the logo Alex designed.
2) I don't like 3 of the screenshots.
symbolic.png has too big of fonts; makes it ugly
fortress.png and 37a.png are old! The notebook doesn't look like that
anymore.
3) Center the car -- it looks funny left-aligned.
One usability complaint:
When the user gets to the bottom, we want 'em to be all pumped up to use the
software. But no! They have to scroll back to the top! I'd put links to the
tutorial, download, and public notebooks at the bottom, too. (perhaps above the
giant car)
On Sun, 6 May 2007, William Stein wrote:
>
> On 5/6/07, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I like it. I think links at the top are convenient. I would include
>> a components link, as I personally think the main webpage should
>> acknowledge GAP, PARI, etc. (In fact, on the SAGE authors page
>> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/was/rc/web/ack.html
>> it would be nice to add a link to the GAP authors page
>> http://www.gap-system.org/Contacts/People/authors.html,
>> the Singular team page, and so on.) I also think there should be
>> a link to the SAGE wiki.
>
> This email is about
> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/was/rc/web/index.html
>
> I've added a components link to the developer link. I've listed
> the main components under "Use an open free alternative".
>
> I did not add a components link to the main page, since the
> main point of the site redesign is to appeal to users
> who have never heard of GAP, PARI, Singular, etc.
>
> > In terms of missing information, I've heard several complaints that it
>> is too hard to figure out how to install the windows version.
>
> It is. The solution is to
> (1) create a good msi installer, and
> (2) have a well-supported vmware machine.
>
> Michael is working on (1) for sage-2.5, and (2) is now done I think.
>
>> Also, as far as missing information, the "killer app" IMHO
>> is that SAGE includes an easily installed version of Maxima,
>> GAP, Singular, etc. When a PARI or GAP or Singular user visits
>> this page, it would be nice to have something which would convince
>> them that there is no harm in switching and welcome them to SAGE.
>
> Done.
>
>
>> Possibly the "Mailing lists" link could be renamed to something more
>> descriptive, since it has links to your talks on SAGE. At the
>> moment, I can't think of anything better. If you say "Support" instead
>> then on the linked page should have more support-related stuff - perhaps
>> a link to the tutorial.
>
> Great idea, I've done that.
>
> William
>
> >
>
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