This looks great! What are the implementation details of having this go live?
* Ashley: would you be able to e.g. install an index.html like this, and hang the wiki under it? * How do we allow editing (by trusted users?) -- Don chrisdone: > This is a post about re-designing the whole Haskell web site. > > We got a new logo but didn't really take it any further. For a while there's > been talk about a new design for the Haskell web site, and there are loads of > web pages about Haskell that don't follow a theme consistent with > Haskell.org's, probably because it doesn't really have a proper theme. > > I'm not a designer so take my suggestion with a grain of salt, but something > that showed pictures of the latest events and the feeds we currently have > would > be nice. The feeds let you know that the community is busy, and pictures tell > you that we are human and friendly. > > Anyway, I came up with something to kick off a discussion: > > http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Image:Haskell-homepage-idea.png > > It answers the basic questions: > > • What's Haskell? > • Where am I on the site? (Answered by a universally recognised tab menu) > • What's it like? > • How do I learn it? > • Does it have an active community? > • What's going on in the community? What are they making? > • This language is weird. Are they human? -- Yes. The picture of a recent > event can fade from one to another with jQuery. > > The colours aren't the most exciting, but someone who's a professional > designer > could do a proper design. But I like the idea of the site being like this; > really busy but not scarily busy. > > Subsections of the site could use the header and footer and heading theme, but > have a completely different primary-content layout. Probably sub-sections > would > need a left-nav. Keeping the design simple like this also makes it easy to > theme the current Wiki to fit in with it seamlessly. > > Personally I don't have a problem with the existing site, functionally. It has > all the stuff I want to look at. The only stuff that I had issue with as a > newbie was finding The One Book I Should Read and The One Download I Should > Get. The current site is starting to address this with a "Download Haskell" > button. However, looking at it as a marketing site, it does look pretty lame > and messy, and it gives you that impression of Haskell. So if people who own > the site are going to redesign it, I thought I'd contribute a bit. > > Anyway, please contribute your ideas. (Again, I'm not a designer, so you don't > need to pick at the aesthetics, a real designer can sort that out.) > > Cheers! > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe