Nikodemus Siivola tsiivola@cc.hut.fi wrote:

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http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~s3815210/slime-hp-suggestion/

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

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

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

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?)

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?

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. :-)