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Re: New logo and website design proposal
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Luis Felipe López Acevedo |
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Re: New logo and website design proposal |
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Wed, 23 Sep 2015 10:17:20 -0500 |
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On 2015-09-18 04:47, Amirouche Boubekki wrote:
Le 2015-09-17 16:59, Luis Felipe López Acevedo a écrit :
On 2015-09-16 03:19, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote:
Beautiful!
Like Chris, I love the demographically agnostic, yet incredibly
inviting
drawings. I also love the overall crisp and modern feel to the whole
site including the proposed new logos.
Fantastic :-)
+1, I really like the design, I find it well done and welcoming except
the
following...
I also read on IRC that someone said the drawings were childish.
Some one corrected me. What I mean is that it doesn't look **serious**
enough
in the sens that the drawings would fit way better a tutorial about
Guile that targets
children. And I think, it's better to save those drawings that and
come with other
illustrations/photos that are more explicit about each topic.
No worries. That's the way I took it when you said "childish".
There should be a better place between "corporate/megacorp", "chilren
friendly", "academics"
and "startup" designs. Maybe if the toons had a gnu/friendly
monster/robot
face instead of human faces it will look less "primary school". Like I
said
the drawing, I'm wondering whether it's for the correct audience.
Some comments on other webites:
- python.org, djangoproject.com, and rust-lang.org look to too
impersonnal/dull
- ruby-lang is simple and impersonnal but I think the logo makes it
work great
- kivy.org is really well made
- http://elm-lang.org/ nice, not too dull
Really the design is really well made, no problem with that, I just
want to be sure
that we won't disappoint the main audience and attract a lot of
newsbies which i think
we are not ready for.
If I can vote, I will +0.
I get you point about the illustrations, but I disagree :)
My Idea was to put "newbies" first without leaving out the experts.
Maybe with this change we can push ourselves a bit to make the project
be ready for people getting started in programming (it is not far from
that, I think).
I think that having the "Applications made with guile" visible at the
start, and with good software examples, will encourage any kind of
person to keep browsing.
However, I'm willing to propose another design if the majority of people
agree with you.
I other comments, I think that:
- The header menu should use the same ordering as the guix header menu
+0
- It should have bulllet points (!) something like
https://www.rust-lang.org/
This kind of standard a lot of people do that in their README
+1 if someone provides the appropriate text for me to include it in the
design.
- It should have a code snippet
+1
Last but not least, the website is focusing on explaining that Guile is
an
**extension** language. I don't use it as such and neither do many
other,
"it a general programming language with appealing embedding features".
Most people looking for language look for a language to program their
car/house,
website, make REST apis, build games, script their system and some to
extend their
software to provide multiple extension language with the same API.
This is a really
massive feature of Guile and a deserve a full block, but other aspects
of the Guile must
appear in the page. I think it is bad rep to call it "script" language.
Yeah, Chris suggested something about it:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2015-09/msg00017.html
I think it's written nowhere that it's a scheme language following
srfi and RNRS specifications.
Honestly it was an another argument for me to start using Guile,
instead of Racket.
That can be added, yes.
I understand. But I hope that the "Applications using guile" section
will erase any wrong impressions that some people may get after seeing
the illustrations.
This design IMO target better young people, I am not sure that's the
image
Guile wants to show at first glance.
Hope this helps,
Amirouche
Thanks for your feedback, Amirouche :)
--
Luis Felipe López Acevedo
http://sirgazil.bitbucket.org/
- Re: New logo and website design proposal, (continued)
Re: New logo and website design proposal, Ricardo Wurmus, 2015/09/16
Re: New logo and website design proposal, Alex Sassmannshausen, 2015/09/16
- Re: New logo and website design proposal, Luis Felipe López Acevedo, 2015/09/17
- Re: New logo and website design proposal, Thompson, David, 2015/09/17
- Re: New logo and website design proposal, Amirouche Boubekki, 2015/09/18
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