Re: Octave-Forge: Redesign with responsive layout

[Oliver Heimlich]

On 26.08.2018 19:35, Julien Bect wrote:
> Le 26/08/2018 à 14:20, Oliver Heimlich a écrit :
>> Hello,
>>
>> this weekend I have published a redesign of our Octave-Forge website.
>>
>>      https://octave.sourceforge.io/
>>
>> [...snip...]
>>
>> I have tested the new design and hope you like it. Please let me know,
>> if any changes break your workflow or there are rendering issues on
>> certain browsers.
> 
> Oliver,
> 
> It looks great on my laptop (Debian+Firefox) and mobile phone (Android +
> Chrome).  Thank you for the excellent work.
> 
> A few very personal feelings about this new design :
> 
> * I would have liked a few more (+1? +2?) items in the "important
> changes" and "package releases" sections of the home page ;

I have added two more items to the recent changes lists.

> * I found the colors a little to "cold" for my taste ; in comparison,
> Octave's home page has a few bits of orange and yellow here and there
> (in the logo and in th sombrero) that make it look warmer in my opinion.

I have added a little more orange color for the code-snippets. Depending
on your location, it might take up to 24h to deliver the new CSS through
the CDN.

Do you have any ideas for colorful content that could be added to the
home page?

> * In the interest of showing how integrated the octave core/forge
> communities are, I would I loved to see the two websites share even more
> similar designs (same black background in the top menu / same logo / etc.).

Yes, this is an option. For now, I have concentrated on the responsive
part and didn't want to change too much of the old color theme.

With two very similar websites it might become confusing. The visitor
might get lost between the two pages. If we go this way, I guess that we
have to merge the top menus and make the two websites appear as if they
were one: With some pages hosted at gnu.org and some pages hosted at SF.net.

Oliver

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