[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-06-04 Thread Clement Pernet
First, I really think this web site looks much better, and mature. Great job! I asked my roomate, Alan, to review it, since he's quite a bit into web app. development. Here are his comments: * in general: less pages, dont hide things 3 pages deep. everything on the site could be edited down

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-06-04 Thread David Harvey
Everyone keeps saying they don't like the blue. Well, I *do* like the blue! Just my 2 cents :-) david On Jun 4, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Clement Pernet wrote: First, I really think this web site looks much better, and mature. Great job! I asked my roomate, Alan, to review it, since he's

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-06-02 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 31, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Andrey Novoseltsev wrote: I looked at the new site the second time and liked it much more! Me too, even better than last time. Some other ideas/comments: 1) I think that the main page would look better if Our mission is in bold and starts a separate paragraph.

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-06-02 Thread Harald Schilly
Hi, just some short comments by me, since I'm responsible ;) On Jun 2, 7:58 pm, Robert Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 31, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Andrey Novoseltsev wrote: Also, I think it might be better for the text to be left- justified (but still centered in the page). Yeahr, well,

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-06-02 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On Jun 2, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Harald Schilly wrote: Hi, just some short comments by me, since I'm responsible ;) On Jun 2, 7:58 pm, Robert Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 31, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Andrey Novoseltsev wrote: Also, I think it might be better for the text to be left-

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-06-02 Thread Francesco Biscani
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi William, William Stein wrote: | That said I really *really* want a full native version of Sage on Windows... I've been wondering about this for a while. Are you referring specifically to MSVC support or it gets compiled natively under windows

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-06-02 Thread mabshoff
On Jun 2, 11:11 pm, Francesco Biscani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi William, Hi Francesco, William Stein wrote: | That said I really *really* want a full native version of Sage on Windows... I've been wondering about this for a while. Are

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-06-02 Thread Daniel Black
On May 14, 12:11 am, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Andrey Novoseltsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I think that completely white background would be the best. I would love to see what this looks like. Using the Web Developer extension for FF

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-06-02 Thread Francesco Biscani
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Michael, mabshoff wrote: | For 32 bits we are fixing the Cygwin issues and one goal for Dev1 | [starting in a little less than two weeks] is to get that port up and | working again. MinGW's support for Python is allegedly problematic, at | least

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-06-02 Thread mabshoff
On Jun 2, 11:51 pm, Francesco Biscani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Michael, Hi Francesco, mabshoff wrote: | For 32 bits we are fixing the Cygwin issues and one goal for Dev1 | [starting in a little less than two weeks] is to get that port up

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-31 Thread Pablo De Napoli
I should say that one thing that I really like from the current site is the explanation of what is Sage in the front page, from General and Advanced Pure and Applied Mathematics to .. Download SAGE for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux I would suggest to keep this perhaps in a section about sage

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-31 Thread Andrey Novoseltsev
I looked at the new site the second time and liked it much more! Some other ideas/comments: 1) I think that the main page would look better if Our mission is in bold and starts a separate paragraph. 2) Navigation buttons and their labels look great, but sublabels are very small (smaller than

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-14 Thread John Cremona
A possible alternative draft of the text on the front page: Sage is an open source mathematics software package. It combines and builds on many existing open source packages, unifying them with a common interface and language, and also provides many things which cannot be found in any other

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-14 Thread Drew
It's great that the website is getting a refresh. A few comments ... Why all the fancy javascript ? It adds nothing, and slows down both the download and general navigation. Save the fancy coding for sage :-) On a well designed page you shouldn't need to write click here' to indicate where to

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-14 Thread mabshoff
On May 14, 11:15 am, Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It's great that the website is getting a refresh. A few comments ... Why all the fancy javascript ? It adds nothing, and slows down both the download and general navigation. Save the fancy coding for sage :-) Re javascript: the devmap

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-14 Thread Martin Albrecht
I really like the new website and I'll not talk about colors, but some small things: - I think the 'papers citing Sage' list should be somewhere prominently. - The features list should have more mention of the actual math one can do with Sage (including maybe some stuff where it is fast),

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-14 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On May 14, 3:33 am, 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

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-14 Thread mabshoff
On May 14, 12:16 pm, Dr. David Kirkby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Hi David, * German mirror does not work. An extra i did sneak in there: http://sage.apcocoa.orgi/download.html It is located in Passau [at the university] and everybody on the DFN [Deutsches Forschungs Netz] should see

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-14 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
On May 14, 11:43 am, mabshoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 14, 12:16 pm, Dr. David Kirkby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Hi David, * German mirror does not work. An extra i did sneak in there:http://sage.apcocoa.orgi/download.html It is located in Passau [at the university] and

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-14 Thread David Joyner
I cannot find the code browser or wiki links, both of which I use a lot. Maybe that is because it is so slow, I give up looking. For me, each page takes 30 seconds. I guess sagemath.org is just slow this morning On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:33 PM, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-14 Thread mabshoff
On May 14, 1:33 pm, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I cannot find the code browser or wiki links, both of which I use a lot. Maybe that is because it is so slow, I give up looking. For me, each page takes 30 seconds. I guess sagemath.org is just slow this morning I have been

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-14 Thread Nathan Dunfield
On May 14, 6:33 am, David Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot find the code browser or wiki links, both of which I use a lot. Maybe that is because it is so slow, I give up looking. For me, each page takes 30 seconds. I guess sagemath.org is just slow this morning I just tried

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-14 Thread Drew
I can see that this would complicate matters for mirroring websites, though it's not clear why you need to mirror websites. Obviously distributions/downloads can benefit from mirroring, and notebook servers can easily be loaded down, but I'm surprised that the main community website needs it, do

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-14 Thread mabshoff
On May 14, 3:16 pm, Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I can see that this would complicate matters for mirroring websites, though it's not clear why you need to mirror websites. Obviously distributions/downloads can benefit from mirroring, and notebook servers can easily be loaded down, but

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-14 Thread Robert Bradshaw
On May 14, 2008, at 3:05 AM, Martin Albrecht wrote: I really like the new website and I'll not talk about colors, but some small things: - I think the 'papers citing Sage' list should be somewhere prominently. - The features list should have more mention of the actual math one

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-13 Thread Yi Qiang
+1 on too much blueness. A couple of comments that were made previously but I think are important to reiterate: 1) Don't place equal weight on all the links. I think that the Download link should stand out since that's what most people want to do, or at least that's what we want them to do to

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-13 Thread John H Palmieri
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

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-13 Thread Andrey Novoseltsev
1) I think that completely white background would be the best. 2) Going to the download page, the first sentence I read is Sage for Microsoft Windows is currently not native available, (and at the first read I actually missed the word native). I don't think it is good to start describing

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-13 Thread William Stein
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Andrey Novoseltsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I think that completely white background would be the best. I would love to see what this looks like. 2) Going to the download page, the first sentence I read is Sage for Microsoft Windows is currently not

[sage-devel] Re: New Sage website

2008-05-13 Thread Dan Drake
On Tue, 13 May 2008 at 07:33PM -0700, William Stein wrote: 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