On May 23, 12:09 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > Would it not be worth spending some money on paying a competent > professional web designer, and charging him with a task of making the > sage homepage as good as the Mathematica one? Ideally more pages, but of > course it all costs money. Just a really nice homepage would be nice.
Hi, first of all, look at sagemath.org/old .. that's how it looked like some time ago. second, i think the website is okay in a way, that it serves it purpose and after 10 seconds you know what it is about. There are much more important things to do before we think about a mma like page and there a couple of things they do, which we won't. one thing is flash for dynamic stuff (i don't have any idea how flash works and i oppose it since it's close source) and dynamic webpages. we only serve static pages at the moment, that's the reason why we don't have a cms, too. also, don't expect a web developer to produce any content. they present you designs with stubs and then you are restricted by their specific layout. what we would need are "content developers" for documentation and wiki pages. i.e. somebody like paid students ... i also thought about some changes to the current design. some things can be improved without too much work. i'll look into that this summer. and last but not least, if someone wants to write some content or improve something (like the /tour.html pages) email me! harald --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
