Il gio, 2003-09-11 alle 09:59, Michael van der Gulik ha scritto:
> 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.

Yes, but they make the header heavier. Also, I don't know whether the
mailing list is something that a new user would go and look for.
Maybe we could take out the links under the header, and highlight them
by placing them first in their category (see attachment).

> > - 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.
> 

I think it is possible to create a wiki theme which looks similar to
squeak.org's homepage, but first we need to finalize the homepage look. 

	Giovanni

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