Christopher Done
Sadly nobody has the time nor inclination to do proper web development and actually test designs and get feedback, so I suppose we're working with the time we've got. At least with theme support, we can write a load of themes, and then perhaps do a vote on what people think makes the best impression as a default.
Feedback seems rather easy to get, but I think it's better with somebody with ability and inclination just takes charge. Anyway, some suggestions for the wiki theme: The blurb ("Haskell is an..") is nice, and I'm just dying to click on the links from the text, but it could do with more of them. "Open source" could perhaps point to licensing and the proliferation of Hackage packages, "twenty years of cutting edge research" could point to the history of Haskell, "active community" could link to a list of blogs, IRC, mail, etc. The list of debuggers, profilers etc is good, although I'd like a link to the quickcheck family of tools somewhere. "Performance" is also missing, we used to(?) do well on the shootout, and it's a common concern. I don't mind the italics much, but I don't like the sans serif on the rest of the page. The brown slab at the top seems a bit lonely, perhaps the right and left sidebars should have the same color, framing the page proper? Colors are generally good, beige and orange gives a calm, soothing effect. But then I'm an Ubuntu user :-) The warm summer theme from the platform is better, though, so if somebody wants to port that, I'm in favor. The logo seems out of place, and should have navigation underneath. Two text panes with different colors look somewhat odd to me, and the list of hackage updates is great, perhaps it should be smaller in size and have date stamps to better show the activity? Currently it makes the page too long, nobody is going to scroll all the way down to the footer. Anyway. I hope this is useful, and will let this particular bikeshed rest for now. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants