[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell.org re-design

[Daniel Peebles]

I'm definitely not a design/color person, but has anyone considered using
kuler.adobe.com as a source of "nice" color schemes, since we seem to have
an issue coming up with attractive combinations?

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Thomas Schilling <nominolo at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Well, they make the wannabe-designer mistake of using justified text
> in HTML, even worse, for columns just 3 words wide.
>
> The overall layout, is pretty nice though.  It's essentially the
> standard Web 2.0 layout (compare http://basecamphq.com/,
> http://www.blinksale.com/, http://www.analysis-one.com/, etc.).  The
> key design elements are (IMO):
>
>  - Put the important stuff at the top and separate it visually from
> the "other stuff".  The important things are:  (1) the quick summary
> of Haskell, (2) the "Get Haskell" button, (3) link to "Learn Haskell"
> / "Try Haskell"
>
>  - We may have a second row/column of secondary important stuff, like
> community, project hosting, more implementations, the top learning
> materials, etc. links to Haskell users
>
>  - News, Events, etc. can go further down
>
> I'm not particularly attached to any particulars of my suggested
> design.  I just thought I'll try to encourage to move away much
> further from the current wiki-like and somewhat dull design.
>
> On 6 April 2010 10:36, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Simon Michael <simon at joyful.com> wrote:
> >> On 4/2/10 5:28 AM, Thomas Schilling wrote:
> >>>
> >>> How about something more colourful?
> >>>
> >>> http://i.imgur.com/7jCPq.png
> >
> > I really like the simplicity of the Cassandra page:
> >
> > http://cassandra.apache.org/
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