On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > > 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.
Harald Schilly, the webmaster, has done a wonderful job. I agree with Jason that focusing on marketing would help a lot. Professional designers charge thousands of dollars. I've heard of people getting paid a couple grand for a far less complicated site than sagemath.org. I think the money would be much better spent on hardware and adding functionality to Sage. > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
