Hi Justin, Thanks for making the versions of the site with smaller fonts. I really like the wider version. It looks all right for me even with the spaces.
Kind Regards, Alex On 5 April 2013 16:43, Justin Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Alex. Thanks for the comments. > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Oleksandr Rudyy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Justin, > > > > The new version looks really nice. Well done. > > However, I got a couple of minor comments. > > > > General remarks: > > > > I do not know if it is me (may be I am getting older and more > conservative > > :) ) but I would decrease slightly the size of the fonts. They look > bigger > > than I get used to. > > I agree. While I think modern websites do make the fonts a little > bigger, this still a little bigger than I prefer. I have competing > concern, however. > > http://people.apache.org/~jross/transom/narrow.png > http://people.apache.org/~jross/transom/wide.png > > In both of these renderings, I've reduced the font to the size I like > better. In the wide layout, it produces a big gap in the middle that > I think looks bad. That's why I bumped the font size up a little in > the current version. If the wider layout with the smaller font works > for you, I can go back to that. > > > Front page. > > > > I would like to suggest to remove couple of redundancies which appeared > in > > the new version of the site: > > - The download button in the right top corner seems like does not bring > > anything new as there is already download link in the top menu. > > In this case, I think the redundancy may be justified. The download > operation is high priority, one of the main things folks coming to our > site want to do. That's why I consider it justified. > > > - The phrase "Qpid is an Apache <http://www.apache.org/> project" seems > > like another duplication as the title of the site does not leave any > place > > for doubts that it is not an Apache project. Maybe it can be replaced > with > > the link to AMQP site? I would move the link to Apache main web site into > > Apache sub-section below. > > Okay. I like it there because that block is a concise statement of > our project. But of course, you're right, there's no shyness about > the Apache connection. > > > Also, I would improve the Developers link. It looks like an incorrectly > > written html comment for me. I would make it similar to the sections > above > > ("Apache", "Resources", "Qpid Proton" etc.) and put some links > underneath, > > for example, link to road map page (if we are going to maintain it > > accurately), qpid_project_etiquette_guide.html, code styles?, etc. > > I'll work on a different approach. At this point, I don't want to > promote project etiquette and that kind of thing to the front page. > I'm planning to instead link that stuff off the developer home. > > > I got a question about documentation for previous releases. There are > > links to the current documentation on each component page. But what about > > the links to the documentation for previous releases? Have I missed it? > > In the new site, all the version-specific documentation is collected > under its corresponding release. For example, > > > http://people.apache.org/~jross/transom/head/releases/qpid-0.20/index.html > > http://people.apache.org/~jross/transom/head/releases/qpid-0.20/messaging-api/cpp/api/index.html > > (Note that I haven't regenerated all the docs for releases before 0.20.) > > There is a link to the release index at the bottom of the download > page. I'm at adding in addition some text at the top of the download > page pointing to previous releases, and your comment here has started > me thinking about how to do it under the component pages. > > Thanks, > Justin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
