On May 6, 2007, at 12:37 AM, William Stein wrote: > Hi, > > I'm doing a redesign of the SAGE website to target SAGE much > more at end users rather than developers (I think the tipping > point has now arrived, since about 500 people downloaded > SAGE in the last two weeks...) Anyways, your comments > on the mockup here would be welcome: > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/was/rc/web/index.html > (Note that links to actual downloads etc might not work.) > My questions are mainly: > (1) do the pages look: > -- visually appealing > -- simple and clean > -- convey all the necessary information (i.e., I'm not missing > key things that used to be there)
I really like new, clean user-targeted design. I might be coming a little late into the discussion, but I did have some additional thoughts. I might add a couple of links to some of the graphics (which wouldn't visually change the page at all). Like to the GNU icon, a link either to something on the gnu website (though often their treatment of the topic is a bit heavy-handed) or preferably to a page containing that quote about the Sylow theorems and a link to browsing the entire source. The python one could link to the python page (for people coming from the mathematics side of things) and the "Use most matematics software..." could link to a list of interfaces (perhaps this list could be merged in with the "components." I'm not sure "Be curious" could link to a relevant page in the tutorial. I think the text for the download blurb makes it a bit confusing as to what SAGE actually is. Perhaps something along the lines of SAGE is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. SAGE also makes it very easy to install or build from source most major open source math programs. Download SAGE here. I think the "Try SAGE online" link(s) need to be much more prominent, perhaps even placed somewhere in that last paragraph. > (2) does the text on the front page reasonably convey what > SAGE is to somebody who say has never heard of programs > like GAP and PARI, and just wants to know if SAGE might > be for them? Yes, though perhaps it could do a better job of presenting itself to people who do use these systems. I'm not sure how redundant this would be with the next paragraph, but perhaps something could be added to the second paragraph to the effect that SAGE leverages/ includes "existing high-quality open source math packages such as..." > (3) Does the front page text seem to much like sales talk? > Compared to Maple or Mathematica's web pages it's nothing > (those pages are gut-wrenchingly obnoxious), > but it might still be too much. I don't think so. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
