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["Garth N. Wells" <g.n.wells@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Johan Jansson <jjan@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> > Hey Anders,
> >
> > So I like the general look and feel for the page, but I think right now
> > it has a lot of info and is probably hard for a new person to discern
> > which information is important to read.  For example the news banner
> > takes up about 1/3 of the page, it's important for users but they are
> > probably getting that info through a mailing list already.
> >
> > Some suggestions I would make are to either 1) move to a three column
> > page with the middle being the largest (such as http://www.scipy.org/)
> > or 2) combine all the links and make them drop down (for example have a
> > link docs which has (about, contact, wiki, and gallery))  then you could
> > have more room for links on the main link bar.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andy
> >
> > Anders Logg wrote:
> >> I have experimented with the web page:
> >>
> >>     http://www.fenics.org/
> >>
> >> I wanted to add visible links to the wiki, the repositories and
> >> bugzilla, but I'm not perfectly happy with the way it turned out (it
> >> looks ugly).
> >>
> >> Any suggestions or opinions? For example, do we want to keep the
> >> orange theme for the buttons and links? (It looks a little pale.)
> >>
> >> /Anders
> >>
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> 
> The links on the left seem redundant. Why not put all of them at the top
> and make them a bit smaller? Or combine them into drop-down menus like
> Andy is suggesting.
> 
> Another suggestion is to do the whole site as a Wiki (like the SciPy
> site). Then you lower the threshold for people to participate in adding
> things.
>

I like the look of the SciPy site, and the easier it is to add things the better.

Garth
 
>   Johan
> 
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