Hi! On 23 Mai, 18:43, bump <b...@match.stanford.edu> wrote: > I agree that the sage web page is good, and preferrable to the > mathematica page.
Mathematica has one advantage over Sage: By its name, there can be absolutely no doubt that Mathematica is about mathematics. Sage, on the opposite, could be about cooking/gardening/botanics, about wisdom (at least in French) and about accounting (the other Sage software). Hence, it might be a good idea to make it clearer that SAGE IS ABOUT MATHS, FOLKS! This might be achieved by Eye Catchers: Some nice graphics; some icons illustrating what a link links with (e.g., a mini- screen-shot of the notebook for a link to sagenb.org), etc. These are things that the Mathematica web site has. On the other hand, these are exactly the things that I DO NOT like on the Mathematica web site! Simply the look of that page makes me nervous, one has all these tiny little icons and the big sharp scary-looking surface, and it would definitely take a couple of minutes before I knew what link I need to follow in order to get anything interesting. In conclusion: I find the Sage page looks better than the Mathematica page. One thing to improve: Make it obvious (by one big carefully placed picture) that Sage is for mathematics. > I have one constructive comment, which is that one gets misled > in looking for the documentation. +1! A "library" is about books. A (reference) manual and other "static" documentation is (at least virtually) a book. Hence, I strongly believe that the link to both documentation and tutorial should be under Library. And what is "help"? I believe that "help" is an active process. Hence, a manual, that is passively read, is certainly useful to solve one's problems, but it is not "help" at all, IMHO! Reading a manual is helping oneself, not getting help. Help is: - sage-support (get new answers by people) - FAQ (get answers by reading old answers) - Search (get answers by a machine) My suggestions: 1. The six big icons in the middle of the page should be re-arranged. Search should be beside help (since search is help), and feature tour should be beside library (since a feature tour is something like the foreword of a manual) 2. Provide a direct link to the FAQ on the main page. Actually it took me a while to find them. Best regards, Simon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
