[Webteam] Front Page

[Brad Fuller]

Brad Fuller wrote:
> Brad Fuller wrote:
>> What do you guys think about rearranging the front page to be a bit 
>> more sparse? Less text with "About Smalltalk" more about the cool 
>> applications that are happening. Specifically today, seaside and olpc 
>> are have enthusiasm around the world and maybe we could take 
>> advantage of that ride to promote Squeak on the first page.  I like 
>> the next steps area (although it might be too long)
>> The "Main Squeak Portals" seems redundant because they are on the 
>> right side. We could use the explanation text as the mouse hover text 
>> on the right so we don't lose the descriptions of the portals.
>>
>> Just a thought.
>>
> Based on some input that we've seen floating around on squeak-dev, 
> I've changed the front page of wwwtest.squeak.org to see if it would 
> meet with positive results from others. Here's what I did:
>
> * I've added a "news" box on the right side.
> * I moved the "links" box to the left (because the news on the left 
> was just too small)
> * I made the front page more sparse to enhance the appeal for 
> beginners searching for squeak.
> * I removed the long "About Squeak" section. This can be integrated in 
> the About page if we want.
> * I removed the "Main Squeak Portals" section. It's a duplicate of 
> what is in the links box (except for Planet Squeak, which I added to 
> "Links"). The problem is that we lose the description of the links. If 
> there was a easy way to add these descriptions as balloons text when 
> your mouse hover's over the link, that would be idea. I don't know how 
> to do that.
>
> what do you think?

Bummer, I forgot that the menu dynamically grew downwards. So, an 
absolute position of "links" on the left won't work. Anyone a css expert?


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