www.squeak.org??? (attached page version 2.0)

Michael van der Gulik mikevdg at hetnet.nl
Thu Sep 11 07:59:25 UTC 2003


Giovanni Corriga wrote:
> Il mer, 2003-09-10 alle 22:50, Colin Putney ha scritto:
>>Looks good to me. The only quibble I have is that I think it would look 
>>better without borders between the table cells. Oh, and the right hand 
>>column could be dropped if no immediate use is found. It would be easy 
>>to put back later if it's needed.

The right-hand column is there to make the page look more balanced, and 
because lots of other web-sites do that too. I figured it would be a 
great place to show things off; screenshots and the like. If I ever see 
another free project somewhere, I always make a B-line for the 
screenshots for the eye candy (okay, so I'm superficial :-P ). Squeak 
has lots of eye-candy.

> - the links under "Welcome to Squeak.org" are a bit redundant, given
> that they are also in the left column. Also, the header looks nicer
> without those three links.

Those links are the things that I kind of assume people would use quite 
often; shortcuts to the mailing list archive (where most of the action 
is) and the swiki. I personally would not like to lose them.

If they don't look good then you could probably make them look good with 
fancy text, graphics etc...?

> - the Download section should be more visible. I'd say it should be
> placed before Documentation

Agreed! Lets get people addicted ASAP!

> - we could add a Projects section just after the Community section,
> listing SqueakLand.org, the SqueakMap and Croquet.

...linking to a wiki site somewhere.

Which reminds me. If the front page is the only page that has this 
colour scheme / theme and all sub-pages are on the wiki, then I'm not 
sure what sort of impression we'll be making on people visiting the site.

Can a wiki also have some theme? I think it's moderately important to 
have a bit of consistency; make things look fairly professional even 
though Squeak is only all good fun.

> -  a Development section with useful info, such as the release roadmap,
> info on the KCP, links about BFAV, the new test server etc.
> 
> - a Links with links to ESUG and other smalltalk related sites.

There are lots of those... it probably also should be a wiki site. 
www.whysmalltalk.com, plus links to other dialects pages, plus 
comp.lang.smalltalk...

Stef has also made a few comments about my page. Stef: thanks for your 
fantastic collection of online books; nobody has the right to complain 
about lack of documentation! They should also be linked from the front 
page. Perhaps the Squeak CD should also be directly accessable from the 
front page?

mikevdg.




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