Harald Schilly wrote: > > if someone finds something odd on any of the other pages, please tell > me. the main reason for using xhtml 1 transitional is, that it can be > made valid (in contrast to xhtml 1 strict) and at the same time be > used across all browsers and rendered correctly! >
Sometimes its a hassle keeping up with the validators: http://witm.sourceforge.net/ used to validate ok as HTML 4.01 strict. Now I note there is one warning of "No Character encoding declared at document level" I'm sure I can fix that. It certainly is possible to get documents to validate as strict - I've done it on numerous sites. The only benefit (and perhaps quite a useful one on mathematical software), is that is shows a degree of attention to detail, and exactness. I can't really see what other benefits it brings. CSS and HTML errors do give the impression things are not checked as carefully as possible. But then I'm pretty sure Google does not validate properly - it did not last time I checked, > well, someone artistic has already redesigned the logo ... and i don't > think it makes any sense to change it again. > I can't say I'm keen on it either. Was the author given the brief of only using one colour? I would have expected most people designing a logo would use multiple colours. > i really would wish someone would write me some text for the tour > pages, just like the statements Kirkby about engineering and things > like that. I'm really bad and way to slow in writing things that sound > good on a website. I can also help with a html template and everything > else on the technical side + proofreading. > Even if you don't like Mathematica, I would be tempted to borrow some if their ideas if you feel they are appropiate. To avoid the possible perception Sage is a university project for universites, it would be worth showing its use in non-academic environments if possible . For Mathematica they list the following catagoires of 'INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS', then several sub-catagories. * Engineering * Science * Biotechnolgoy and Medicine * Finance, statistics and business analysis. * Software engineering, Application Deployment and Content Delivery. (Not, mathematics is not actually listed!) There is also "EDUCATION SOLUTIONS" on the Mathemaitca web site. I'm sure you would have no problem filling in edication examples I do not know what fields people are using Sage in, but others must do. But as catagories I would look at having * Mathematics with sub catagories of algebra, calculus, number theory, graph theory, exact linear algebra, * Engineering - again with sub catagories. * Science * Biotechnolgoy and Medicine I would personally think the home page should be aimed at convincing people that it would be worth using the product, as lots of others have. That seems to be the point that all the commerical products (MATLAB, Mathematica and Maple) all do, which the Sage web sites does not (at least not to the same extent). It's fairly obvious they have employed marketing professionals that come up with the suggestion of putting 'industry' solutions on the home page. That appears to be done on all of them. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
