+1 on too much blueness. A couple of comments that were made previously but I think are important to reiterate:
1) Don't place equal weight on all the links. I think that the Download link should stand out since that's what most people want to do, or at least that's what we want them to do to try Sage! 2) I think the link "extern" is a bit confusing. I have no idea what that means and have never seen that language used in any other website. 3) The sliding bar that goes with the tabs on the top are neat but get old quick and don't really add too much value. I will have more comments when I get to think about the site more but I wanted to write these down so I don't forget them. I also wanted to say that even at this early stage, I think it's a _huge_ improvement in functionality and look & feel over the current site. The search feature is really killer for me. Keep up the good work! Cheers, Yi http://yiqiang.org On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:33 PM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > A while ago we had a huge thread on sage-devel with lots of criticism > that I dutifly > listened to which resulted in the current sagemath.org frontpage. Every > sentence of the current sagemath.org page got carefully written and rewritten > numerous times based on *your* feedback. > > Recently I asked Harald Schilly to spend some time and create a new > fresh website design for Sage. His new design is here: > > http://lite.sagemath.org/ > > It rocks! It just looks modern. > > However, please, look at it, and criticize it! People *will* decide > between using Sage and not based on just the web page, so this > really does matter. I assure you that we can take > any criticism you throw our way. But please take a look, > show the demo page to your friends, get feedback, etc. Now > is the time. > > I'll start. Since these are all suggestions for ways to change > lite.sagemath.org, > perhaps for the worse, please feel free to criticize them too. > > 1. I will start out by saying that the page looks too blue to me; so > blue it is hard for me to look at it. If the background were a bit lighter > I personally would find the page vastly easier to read. Right > now it hurts my eyes. > > 2. At the top right it says "please report problems of new website". > This doesn't sound like correct English. Maybe just delete "of new website". > > 3. The title is "Sage Computer Algebra System". I personally really > don't like the term "computer algebra system" to refer to Sage, since I > think it unduly limits Sage to just "computer algebra", though Sage does > much much more than that. That's why I like the term "open source > mathematical software" much more. > > 4. I think the dash in "open-source" on the intro page is perhaps technically > correct but is completely not needed, since nobody uses it and there is > no chance of confusion. > > 5. This sentence on the opening page is horrible: "It provides an entire in > itself closed distribution of various software packages and is actively > developed by many people." It needs to be rewritten a lot. "closed > distribution" > doesn't sound right at all -- it suggests "closed source". Maybe "complete"? > > > Thanks!! > > William > > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washington > http://wstein.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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
