It is taking me along time to get much but what I have so far is at http://tclemans.nonlogic.org/sage/
On 5/6/07, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On May 6, 2007, at 3:37 AM, William Stein wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm doing a redesign of the SAGE website to target SAGE much > > more at end users rather than developers (I think the tipping > > point has now arrived, since about 500 people downloaded > > SAGE in the last two weeks...) Anyways, your comments > > on the mockup here would be welcome: > > I think it's generally a big improvement. > > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/was/rc/web/index.html > > (Note that links to actual downloads etc might not work.) > > My questions are mainly: > > (1) do the pages look: > > -- visually appealing > > -- simple and clean > > Yes. > > > -- convey all the necessary information (i.e., I'm not missing > > key things that used to be there) > > I reckon the "Use SAGE online" or "Live Tutorial" should somehow be > more prominent. If I had to pick something on the middle four links > to change, I would change "Developers" to "Live Tutorial". If you're > aiming to suck in the general audience, it's the tutorial. Potential > developers are probably better at picking out the links they need > from the bar at the top without having it shoved down their throat. > (But it's not a big deal.) > > I'm not sure I like the slogan "Free Open Source Mathematics Software > for All". The "for All" bit grates a bit with me. Sounds too much > like something a politician would say. > > > > (2) does the text on the front page reasonably convey what > > SAGE is to somebody who say has never heard of programs > > like GAP and PARI, and just wants to know if SAGE might > > be for them? > > Yes. > > Where you have "Use SAGE from the command line", I think the > reference to the command line should go to the *end* of the > paragraph, i.e. just start the paragraph talking about the web > interface, which is probably what the general audience wants to see, > and then at the end have a sentence like "You can also run SAGE > scripts from the command line, or use SAGE in the interactive text- > based IPython shell". A humungous proportion of people will get > freaked out when they hear the word "command line" (if they've heard > of "command line" at all). > > > (3) Does the front page text seem to much like sales talk? > > Compared to Maple or Mathematica's web pages it's nothing > > (those pages are gut-wrenchingly obnoxious), > > but it might still be too much. > > You could lose the sentence "Don't get trapped into using only one > mathematical software system" without really losing anything. It does > sound a bit like a late-night TV ad. > > Be a little careful calling MAGMA commercial software. But I don't > know how to rephrase it without getting very wordy. > > On the mailing list pages you have sage-devel listed twice, same with > sage-announce. > > david > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
