Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > Taking a look at > > http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html > > and then comparing it to > > http://www.sagemath.org/ > > one would have to say the Mathematica one looks much better. > > I've designed a few web sites: > > http://witm.sourceforge.net/ > > But nothing as sophisticated as the Mathematica one, so would not be > able to help. > > Would it not be worth spending some money on paying a competent > professional web designer, and charging him with a task of making the > sage homepage as good as the Mathematica one? Ideally more pages, but of > course it all costs money. Just a really nice homepage would be nice.
I think we have a very competent web designer that has done an outstanding job (you should see the old web page!). I think what we need now is marketing ideas! The big difference I see in a short glance between the two pages is that the MMA one screams "I AM MATH SOFTWARE AND YOU WANT TO USE ME! (and here's why you want to use me)", while the Sage page says, "I am a piece of software you may be interested in; here's lots of helpful information about me." > > I do feel the current Sage page gives the wrong impression. > > It's clear one needs to be quite artistic in designing good looking web > pages. It really is a specialist skill and not something likely to be > had someone who studied maths. > I think we (collectively) definitely have the technical competence on board to implement whatever designs people come up with. I think we (collectively) also have at least a decent amount of design experience and taste. I think what we could use is a very experienced advertising person (or lots of good marketing ideas). But I also get the impression that that is basically what you are suggesting. Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
