Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell.org re-design

I'm definitely not a design/color person, but has anyone considered using kuler.adobe.com as a source of "nice" color schemes, since we seem to have an issue coming up with attractive combinations? On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Thomas Schilling wrote:

Well, they make the wannabe-designer mistake of using justified text in HTML, even worse, for columns just 3 words wide.

The overall layout, is pretty nice though. It's essentially the standard Web 2.0 layout (compare http://basecamphq.com/, http://www.blinksale.com/, http://www.analysis-one.com/, etc.). The key design elements are (IMO):

- Put the important stuff at the top and separate it visually from the "other stuff". The important things are: (1) the quick summary of Haskell, (2) the "Get Haskell" button, (3) link to "Learn Haskell" / "Try Haskell"

- We may have a second row/column of secondary important stuff, like community, project hosting, more implementations, the top learning materials, etc. links to Haskell users

- News, Events, etc. can go further down

I'm not particularly attached to any particulars of my suggested design. I just thought I'll try to encourage to move away much further from the current wiki-like and somewhat dull design.

On 6 April 2010 10:36, Johan Tibell wrote:

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On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Simon Michael wrote:

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On 4/2/10 5:28 AM, Thomas Schilling wrote:

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How about something more colourful?

http://i.imgur.com/7jCPq.png

I really like the simplicity of the Cassandra page:

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