Re: new website draft 8: almost giving up

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Graham
Percival<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi folks.
> http://lilypond.org/~graham/
>
> Most of the people who have been working on the website, including
> me, are fed up with it.  I'm ready to shovel this out the door
> just to get rid of it... not particularly the best frame of mind
> to be introducing a major change to our users' experience, but
> hey, that's life in open-source projects!  If you feel at all
> enthusiastic about the new website, please consider helping.


Some gratuitous comments (no, I am not volunteering).

- Cool, generally looks slick.

- The colors in the secondary menu bar don't make sense to me. The
colors in the top bar are used to indicate which item is selected.
it's
impossible to tell at first glance which submenu item you have chosen.
 Also,  the positioning is awkward to the left.

- (main) as a title in the submenu looks odd.

- GNU and (new) website can be trimmed from the title.

- I think the freedom propaganda should be moved elsewhere.  I think
we are primarily trying to compete on quality of output. I think the
political background can be trimmed much further at this stage of the
'sell'.

- What is the plan for the search box?  It appears to be disfunctional.

- The GPL should just be linked from the gnu site, I think.


> Make sure you check out the alternate CSS style #2.  This has
> fancy gradient-shaded menu bars, which could be a great hit.  It's
> /much/ easier to see which item you have selected.  If you like
> it, make sure you let us know, so that it can be added to the
> default layout.

how do I use this style?




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