On May 16, 1:37 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's about time http://sagemath.org got totally reworked for improved > usability and simplicity.
A design idea from last year is here: (you need safari or firefox, doesn't work in ie) http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/schilly/www3/ The main difference is that the menu is on the left and each sub-point is always visible. That saves clicks and you always see a thematically structured map of all pages. I'm happy to hear about some feedback or ideas how to make it better - then I can re-implement it so that also IE is happy. Technically, layout is oriented on the left and there are fewer graphics. That speeds up the page even further, download and rendering! > And our website should have a couple randomly chosen [quotes] > and displayed in a sidebar. I've started that a while ago here: http://sagemath.org/inc/quotes.shtml as a replacement for the random links at the bottom. (It's just one quote, but there is room for 10) > discussion lists Personally, when maintaining the website, my main problem is that they get created but nobody tells me about them. I just don't automatically think about adding them to the page if i read about them some time later. > download page Well, there is no javascript involved at all and nothing is guessed by javascript - it's done via ssi on the server. If it is ok to use javascript, I can create an intelligent select dialog for the download process, just like on other pages. It's just that when I started to create the page the requirement was that all essential functions should work w/o javascript. So, if it is ok to create a dialog in js i'll do it. As a fallback for js-disabled browsers I can add a link to the mirrors. And btw, the download link at the top menu was pointing to the detected operating system, but then i got mails that this is confusing because there are users who use windows but want to download linux binaries. So, there is no simple solution and all such simplifications need a visible fallback to the general case. H -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
