Anyone know any technical paper about ergonomic and/or functional/aesthetic development/design of a web sites? Why not do it more scientific? :)
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Peter Jeremy <peterjer...@optushome.com.au> wrote: > On 2009-May-23 11:09:09 +0100, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> > wrote: >>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. > > "Flashier", not necessarily better. Both these products are aimed at > a technical audience and shouldn't need lots of frippery. For someone > who was evaluating which to use, the important issues would be what > features are supported and how easy they are to use (which makes > access to a demo version useful). > > A more relevant criteria is probably how likely someone searching for > mathematical software will find Sage (compared to Mathematica, Maple, > Matlab etc). A previous thread suggests that Sage does quite well. > >>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? > > IMHO, no. If the Sage Project has spare money, I think it would be > better spent on improving Sage - adding features, fixing bugs or > improving the documentation. > > -- > Peter Jeremy > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
