Also, why not give them some real life example for why to use a free/opensource program instead of a commercial one. I think this is far more important then money. In example, one of a professor at my university has written a program on a language which has no support now. And everything he has written for hydraulics engineering has to be converted to some means of other programming tools, etc. I still remember the vb6.0 and .net problem (http://classicvb.org/). Predictable life cycle is a crucial topic.
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:35 PM, ahmet alper parker <aapar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why not ask the users to give their opinions about the web page they > use like "did you find what you are looking for?", "could you please > rate this page?", or marketing research questionnaires like which > mathematics software you use?, what would you like to see at web > page?" etc...? > > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Keith Clawson <rattletyb...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I like the site the way it is. I've been translating many of the pages >> into Russian, and the great thing about the design is the simplicity. >> The source html reads more or less like LaTeX to me in that all the >> commands are meaningful and transparent. As far as the content, I >> think it is important to consider how easy it is for a non-native >> English speaker to understand. Definitely anybody who uses Sage must >> know some English, but keeping the navigation clear and simple might >> help visitors who perhaps think in another language, and it also makes >> producing translations easier. >> >> As for the colors and logo, to my eye the Sage site appears similar to >> this Google page I'm typing on, so there is a counter-example to the >> trend of using many colors on professionally designed sites. I >> personally believe mathematicians would tend to prefer that the site >> communicates the main ideas concisely, whereas commercial sites want >> to provoke an impulsive decision to buy and buy again. Thus I believe >> that the different intentions behind producing the sites naturally >> leads to very different looking sites. I'd much rather see the content >> change and help with that than change the navigation and appearance. >> >> -Keith >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
