Re: New page on website

[Urs Liska]

Am 4. April 2015 18:28:11 MESZ, schrieb Paul Morris <address@hidden>:
>Urs Liska wrote
>> I would like to add a companion page to examples.html on lilypond.org
>
>> (in theory extending the existing page would be good too, but that
>would 
>> definitely become too long, I think).
>> 
>> This page would show a number of idiomatic engravings using a
>selected 
>> range of the new alternative fonts, which I'm collecting right now.
>We 
>> *do* offer that feature now, so it should be quite prominently
>visible, 
>> as it is something that potential (and of course existing) users will
>
>> find interesting.
>> 
>> But before I put significant effort in this I'd like to get an idea
>if 
>> that would encounter significant headwind.
>
>Hi Urs,
>
>Sounds like a nice addition to me.  I'd be fine with going ahead as
>you've
>proposed it.
>
>That said, I've been thinking about the idea of showing examples on the
>home
>page.[1]  The simplest way would be to move some of the examples from
>the
>examples page.  It could just be one or two of them as a "teaser" (with
>a
>link to the examples page for more) but maybe it would make sense to
>move
>most (or all?) of them to the home page and then put the rest,
>including the
>new ones showing different fonts, on the examples page.
>
>In that scenario we'd probably want to move most of the news items off
>the
>front page to make room, and figure out the best way to organize having
>both
>news and examples there.  So that would need to be worked out.  
>
>I think the examples are good for the home page because they are
>relevant to
>new visitors, quickly showing what Lilypond can do.  Having one or two
>news
>items (with a link to more) is good just to show activity.
>
>What do people think?  Is this approach worth exploring?
>

Definitely. That would significantly improve the home page. And avoid having 
another entry on the navigation.

Urs

>-Paul
>
>[1]
>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2015-02/msg00211.html
>
>
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