[slime-devel] RFC: SLIME homepage suggestion
is it better now? http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~s3815210/slime-hp-suggestion/ -- ,, \../ / <<< The LISP Effect |_\\ _==__ __ | |bb| | _________________________________________________
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Thomas Schilling wrote:
is it better now?
I find the combination of sidebar and topbar confusing when they both do the same thing. I'd ditch the sidebar, but that's just me. Yeah, I know. "Everyone's a critic." ;-) Cheers, -- Nikodemus "Not as clumsy or random as a C++ or Java. An elegant weapon for a more civilized time."
Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola@cc.hut.fi> wrote:
I find the combination of sidebar and topbar confusing when they both do the same thing. I'd ditch the sidebar, but that's just me.
Yeah, I know. "Everyone's a critic." ;-)
Especially in case of web-design. But I agree. (Actually it's a placeholder for future extensions when the site needs to be split up in several pages ;) But I'd remove the topbar (in order to keep the text part not too wide). -ts
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Thomas Schilling wrote:
But I agree. (Actually it's a placeholder for future extensions when the site needs to be split up in several pages ;)
But I'd remove the topbar (in order to keep the text part not too wide).
I know this got hashed already, but why not just make the text-part say 80% of the width with CSS? Cheers, -- Nikodemus "Not as clumsy or random as a C++ or Java. An elegant weapon for a more civilized time."
Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola@cc.hut.fi> wrote:
I know this got hashed already, but why not just make the text-part say 80% of the width with CSS?
Would look like this: http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~s3815210/slime-hp-suggestion/index2.html
Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola@cc.hut.fi> wrote:
I know this got hashed already, but why not just make the text-part say 80% of the width with CSS?
Would look like this:
http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~s3815210/slime-hp-suggestion/index2.html
or this: http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~s3815210/slime-hp-suggestion/index3.html
On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 00:46, Thomas Schilling wrote:
http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~s3815210/slime-hp-suggestion/index3.html
This is my favourite. IMHO, you should just loose the two thin vertical rulers and it will be crystal clear. Regards, Arnaud -- "The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases." -- Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Thomas Schilling <tjs_ng@yahoo.de> writes:
http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~s3815210/slime-hp-suggestion/index3.html
I like this a lot. The links across the top don't seem to match the document though. Also, I quite like having the fancy screenshot appear inline on the page. Other opinions?
Exams over. Time for Slime hacking! (Ok, actually, in retrospect it was no acceptable excuse--overall time spent for learning: at most 5 days. But I got some nice SC3000 town now ;) ) Ah, the homepage. So how about this? http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~s3815210/slime-hp-suggestion/slime4.html (almost removed the bars, added image; the top-nav need not be same size as the content, does it?) -- ,, \../ / <<< The LISP Effect |_\\ _==__ __ | |bb| | _________________________________________________
* Thomas Schilling <tjs_ng@yahoo.de> [2004-08-10T19:10+0200]:
So how about this?
http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~s3815210/slime-hp-suggestion/slime4.html
(almost removed the bars, added image; the top-nav need not be same size as the content, does it?)
http://lambda.foldr.org/~michaelw/slime4.1.html Almost same thing, but without tables (hello links, lynx!), without shrinked body, validating, standards-compliant (XHTML, CSS2, WAI, what-have-you...). The logo is also text now, but I am a bit wary about it. It is probably better to leave it as image. Does somebody know someone with enough Gimp skills to paint some dripping (greenish) slime on it? Or some Ghostbusters-like "Slimer" creature as mascot? Cheers, Michael p.s.: The screen shot in "Feature List" is too small, IMHO.
Thomas Schilling <tjs_ng@yahoo.de> writes:
So how about this?
http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~s3815210/slime-hp-suggestion/slime4.html
These new versions seem to be getting closer to the existing page on common-lisp.net. I have a few comments that would lead it further still that way, so maybe the easiest way forward is to start from the existing page and see what few tweaks (e.g. snazzy CSS and navbar) are enough to make it look good? Summary of my thoughts: I like your navbar and CSS. I like the content and organisation of the original page. I like the "dripping" logo on the original page. (We're not Coca Cola so it's okay to have a handmade-looking logo with character :-) I like the blank borders down the sides in the new page. That might just be a sign that my browser window is too wide, though. I don't like the original page's mouseover-acronyms. Let's delete them while we're at it. Defining terms like Win32 and OSX is definitely outside the scope of the SLIME homepage. :-)
(the top-nav need not be same size as the content, does it?)
I'm not sure what you mean by same size. The font?
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Thomas Schilling wrote:
http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~s3815210/slime-hp-suggestion/index2.html
How about losing the vertical bar and allowing the text-block to be centered, or just putting something pretty (eg. [1]) in the margin. ,-) [1] http://www.bluetail.com/~luke/oktoberfest.jpg Cheers, -- Nikodemus "Not as clumsy or random as a C++ or Java. An elegant weapon for a more civilized time."
Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola@cc.hut.fi> writes:
[1] http://www.bluetail.com/~luke/oktoberfest.jpg See also http://www.bluetail.com/~luke/misc/portugal.jpg
Spotted a week ago in a Portuguese paper by Thibault Langlois from this list. Exact meaning unknown. :-)
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