[squeak-dev] squeak.org updated

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 22:24:55 UTC 2012


Chris,

Thank you for the new version.

On 12/6/12, Chris Cunnington <smalltalktelevision at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2012-12-06 3:58 PM, Darius Clarke wrote:
>> Let me know what you think of these sites as examples of ideas (not to
>> copy per say. just ideas of what questions these web pages answer):
>>
>> http://sproutcore.com/
>> http://emberjs.com/
>>
>> http://www.squarespace.com/
>>
>> - Darius
>>

> First to consider your first email. I don't think we're going to have a
> scroll down fold, so it's not a big issue anymore. The thing we want
> people to do is download, which is going to be the top left panel of the
> six, so it should be easy to see.
>
> These three sites look similar and were likely made with a similar
> template. They have a horizontal layout. They look sort of busy, which
> is good. Lots of little details but no mooring focus. You look left and
> right a lot.
>
> I think the layout we have at the moment fans out from the upper left
> corner, so it has a focus and motion fanning outward. What those sites
> do have is a dynamic use of color. And one has a great background graphic.

It looks like the flow is something as indicated in the attached screen shot


> Maybe the bar across the top of our site needn't be black. It could be a
> darker hue of a color in the background. The emberjs.com and SproutCore
> sites do that well. Maybe we could have cobalt blue bar at the top and
> background of a lighter shade of blue.

+1

--Hannes
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