On 13 October 2010 05:49, Mark Lentczner <ma...@glyphic.com> wrote: > I spent some time beforehand looking at what other successful language > communities do w.r.t. visual design. I found that none of the communities had > a single theme; most had two or three. but these themes were visually > harmonious. Furthermore, I found that they were used consistently, and that > the various themes were generally at the same level of "polish".
Just out of interest, can you show some examples? A cursory glance at Ruby, and I see that the home page[1] and their package site[2] are completely different! [1]: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ [2]: http://rubyforge.org/ > This means leaning toward consistent colors, and logo form, rather than exact > layout. Further, it seems more important that our projects get designers who > will do a thorough job, and less important that it be a single "central > design group". Indeed. > It is no accident that the new Haddock backend looks like the new wiki > design: Thomas Schilling (nominolo) supplied the initial style sheet that the > Haddock team used to build the "Ocean" theme. I think this exemplifies what > we should strive for: The two projects look well together, look like they > have a relationship, and both are full treatments of their subjects. It isn't > so important that they have identical layouts or details. Ah, I didn't notice! I see that there is a navy blue bar at the top, a grey footer and the links are orange. This is generally good enough, I suppose. Nice. > Since parts of the Hackage site integrate so closely with the Haddock output, > I've been asked if I would take a stab at styling the new Hackage (or at > least the package pages). I'll be aiming to make that fit, but without being > 100% rigid about conformance to the Ocean output. Wwe could provide a base stylesheet which provides fonts, colours, spacing, the heading and footer and logo. That way when you or anyone starts on a new site you already have the base style upon which to built, it will look like Haskell whatever layout or content you use. >> http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/3577/ideasv.png > > Lovely ideas there and I think a Haskell project built on those lines would > continue to look well with the wiki and Haddock. Can we use this logo? Or can we pick one? Every site I see has a different incarnation of it. The favicon of the new-www site is even different to the logo that's on the left. In fact on the new-www site the logo colour changes from the home page to sub pages! This reminds me, do we have a good syntax highlighting theme? HsColour's has always been pretty bad (no offence intended -- but there is a reason people always redefine it). > I'd lean toward us putting these thoughts down in the wiki, and developing a > set of "guide posts" for styling Haskell, rather than a strict set of > policies. This sounds like a good idea. The Python site has a page like this[3], ours could be a little more comprehensive regarding the "polish", as you say. [3]: http://python.org/community/logos/ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe