On May 13, 7:33 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > A while ago we had a huge thread on sage-devel with lots of criticism > that I dutifly > listened to which resulted in the current sagemath.org frontpage. Every > sentence of the current sagemath.org page got carefully written and rewritten > numerous times based on *your* feedback. > > Recently I asked Harald Schilly to spend some time and create a new > fresh website design for Sage. His new design is here: > > http://lite.sagemath.org/ > > It rocks! It just looks modern. > > However, please, look at it, and criticize it! People *will* decide > between using Sage and not based on just the web page, so this > really does matter. I assure you that we can take > any criticism you throw our way. But please take a look, > show the demo page to your friends, get feedback, etc. Now > is the time. > > I'll start. Since these are all suggestions for ways to change > lite.sagemath.org, > perhaps for the worse, please feel free to criticize them too. > > 1. I will start out by saying that the page looks too blue to me; so > blue it is hard for me to look at it. If the background were a bit lighter > I personally would find the page vastly easier to read. Right > now it hurts my eyes.
I agree. Maybe the main text box should have a lighter blue background, or off-white? > > 2. At the top right it says "please report problems of new website". > This doesn't sound like correct English. Maybe just delete "of new website". > > 3. The title is "Sage Computer Algebra System". I personally really > don't like the term "computer algebra system" to refer to Sage, since I > think it unduly limits Sage to just "computer algebra", though Sage does > much much more than that. That's why I like the term "open source > mathematical software" much more. The title of the page could be "Sage Mathematical Software". Pithy, and since open-source is the first thing mentioned in the text, I don't know if it needs to appear in the title. > 4. I think the dash in "open-source" on the intro page is perhaps technically > correct but is completely not needed, since nobody uses it and there is > no chance of confusion. > > 5. This sentence on the opening page is horrible: "It provides an entire in > itself closed distribution of various software packages and is actively > developed by many people." It needs to be rewritten a lot. "closed > distribution" > doesn't sound right at all -- it suggests "closed source". Maybe "complete"? Maybe: Sage incorporates many existing software packages (such as <fill in the blank with some examples that might be meaningful to the casual reader>), and also interfaces seamlessly with many others (e.g., Maple and Mathematica). Many people actively contribute to its development. > Thanks!! > > William > > -- > William Stein > Associate Professor of Mathematics > University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org I like the way the "boxes" at the bottom look, the way they're highlighted when you mouse over them, but I *really* don't like the fact that if I middle click on them, expecting Safari to open up the link in a new tab, it opens it up in a new tab, but also goes to that page in the current tab. This seems to be specific to Safari: Firefox on the Mac acts the way I want. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
