On 31 March 2010 12:01, Johan Tibell
- There are several news streams going on at once. Perhaps "Headlines" and "Events" could be merged into one stream. After watching the Hackage RSS feed every day I don't know if it's interesting enough to put on a front page. Perhaps in a side bar which brings me to my next suggestions.
- Multi column pages are tricky to scan! It works well in news papers since the page height is limited but for web pages I really prefer one main column. Perhaps the second column code be made more narrow? Perhaps the footer content could be promoted into this second column and have it be a more conventional right (or left) hand nav?
That's true, it's a nice idea but in practice it's hard to know where to focus. I've gone with a left nav. I've built up the HTML which is cross-browser (ie6/7/8/opera/firefox/safari/chrome compat), still need to add some bits but I can tomorrow import it into a wikimedia skin. It's kind of easy to re-shuffle now that I've built it. http://82.33.137.16/haskell-website/ Feedback would be appreciated. One has to think, what do I really want to see on the home page? Personally, I want to see latest events and news, that's what I look for on the current page. I'd also like to stick The Big Download Button on there and a small embedded TryHaskell, maybe with random runnable code samples. Similar to the code sample on http://ruby-lang.org/ but something you can actually try in the browser. And yes, by the way, I'm taking inspiration from Ruby's site, Python's site and Ubuntu's wiki page, and I'd forgotten about Scala so I'm looking at their site for ideas, too.
- The quick links seem a bit random where they now appear. :)
Ha, yes! I popped them on last minute. I'm not entirely sure if there is a standard place for social networking icons to go. I'll have to see about that. There are lots of places the icons could go quite neatly. I was also thinking, I am told by my designer friends, that long pages are coming back, so I think we could afford another couple sections on there. Plus, I can optimise the page's download time by gzipping the HTML and caching the gzip binary result, outputting that, and refreshing that cache when the HomePage page is changed (actually Wikimedia probably already supports caching somewhat, though it is an old version, I'll have to see). Cheers!