On 5/7/07, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps you could have the menus that appear at the top and bottom of > the main page appear on each sub-page, as well as the grey borders. It > would give the overall site more consistency, and give the user a > feeling of still being at the same site. You could add the download, > documentation, etc. links to the menus on the sub-pages too. It's good > for a user to be able to navigate from any page towards where they're > trying to get.
I intend to. It's some work automate adding that content to each sub-page, so I wanted to make sure the design is solid before doing that. > The front page is quite nice. As I continue to navigate downward (as a > n00b user), I keep seeing comforting familiar things, like Gnu, > Python, and Firefox, and I start to think, what is this new, > intriguing math software.... wait it's *free*!? :-) > I completely disagree that two columns are confusing. The fundamental > flaw of so many annoying websites is an abundance of gimmicks and no > real content. Personally, I hate mouseOver effects. > > One reaction I had was to "instead of an obscure language designed for > mathematics." ...designed for, maybe a particular mathematics program, > or... there's something kind of pejorative about the way the word > mathematics fits in there... And there are still critics out there who > might say Python was such (although, to hell with 'em). Thanks; you're right. I changed the sentence. > And of course I liked the first graphic... :-) > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://www.williamstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
