Re: new website: draft 3

[chip]

Patrick McCarty wrote:

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:55 AM, chip<address@hidden> wrote:
  

- Community is still a work in progress, although at the moment
 I'm not planning on changing the sections.  If you think
 something's missing, let me know.

      

I think there is obviously far too much white space, also the same on the
Downloads page.
    

Does this mean "not enough content on the page", or "the margins,
padding, etc. are too tall/wide"?  If it's the latter, at what
resolution are you viewing the site (1024x768, 1280x1024, etc.)?
  

My screen is an old 17" crt set to 1024x768. I think there is not enough content on the page. The Manuals, Advertising and Home pages are all well-balanced in content-to-space. Maybe something like the Manuals page - multiple colored boxes -
------------------------------                    -------------------------------------              --------------------------------
|        Contact                       |                     |                   News                         |               |         Minimal Examples          |
|.       Bug Reports                |                     |                    Press                         |               |_______________________|
|        Help Wanted               |                     |                   Thanks                       |
|        Developement             |                     -------------------------------------
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Something like that to spread the menu items across the page, grouped, loosely, on some relationship to each other.

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Chip

The menu doesn't do anything for me, it seems very plain, maybe that's the
way you want it?
    

I assume you are talking about the top navigation bar.  It *is* very
plain, but I'm not sure how I would make it flashier, or if that's
even a good idea.

The site is using a "liquid layout", where the the top navigation bar
stretches to fill the width of browser window, so there are limited
options for using gradients and other techniques you find in
fixed-width sites (like apple.com).

But there are options.  I'll look into it.  We're also planning on
replacing "Home" with a miniature LilyPond icon, so that will help.

Thanks,
Patrick