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Re: to make newbie more comfortable and easier to glance: suggestion on


From: David Chisnall
Subject: Re: to make newbie more comfortable and easier to glance: suggestion on change frontpage of gap
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 16:25:44 +0100

Possibly you have a very wide screen / browser window, but for me that ends up displaying the text in very difficult-to-read, small, columns. Your eye is drawn across the page, while the text goes down. Very bad usability.

If you're going to put the description under the name, you need fewer columns or more space between them. Possibly make the description text smaller too - at the moment it just blurs into the headings.

David

On 5 May 2009, at 16:21, Zhang Weiwu wrote:

I did not find how to contact the webmast in the gap website so I just post it here. I'd propose small change on the index page to make it less confusing for newbies like me.

What I did is to add short description to alive projects and hide the hibernating projects. Maybe there should be a link to a special page where all hibernating projects are listed, but they should not be on the front page to attract unnecessary attention.

Before:
http://emerson.realss.com/index.html
After:
http://emerson.realss.com/index:1.html

Patch: (let me know if posting patch here is okay or how to coordinate with the webmaster)

--- index.html  2009-03-15 06:15:56.000000000 +0800
+++ index:1.html        2009-05-05 23:13:22.000000000 +0800
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
                <link rel="stylesheet" href="gnustep-main.css" type="text/css">
                <style type="text/css" media="screen">
                @import "gnustep-main-2.css";
+               div.content.applications dl {
+                       width: 24%;
+                       float: left;
+                       padding-left: 1%;
+               }
        </style>
                <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; 
charset=UTF-8">
                <link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="/images/gnustep-favicon.ico">
@@ -30,84 +35,28 @@
Links below which are not active are for apps which are planned or in the process of being coded, but have not yet been released. Please check the latest CVS for unreleased versions of these apps.
                                </p>
                        </div>
-                       <div class="content downloads">
-                               <h4>
-                                       Current Packages
-                               </h4>
-                               <table border="0" width="95%" align="center">
-                                       <tr>
-                                               <td>
-                                                       <a 
href="ftp/index.html">FTP</a>
-                                               </td>
-                                               <td>
-                                                       Graphos
-                                               </td>
-                                               <td>
-                                                       <a 
href="innerspace/index.html">InnerSpace</a>
-                                               </td>
-                                               <td>
-                                                       Installer
-                                               </td>
-                                       </tr>
-                                       <tr>
-                                               <td>
-                                                       <a 
href="timemon/index.html">TimeMon</a>
-                                               </td>
-                                               <td>
-                                                       <a 
href="batmon/index.html">BatMon</a>
-                                               </td>
-                                               <td>
-                                                       loginpanel
-                                               </td>
-                                               <td>
-                                                       NFSAdmin
-                                               </td>
-                                       </tr>
-                                       <tr>
-                                               <td>
-                                                       <a 
href="nextgo/index.html">NeXTGo</a>
-                                               </td>
-                                               <td>
-                                                       <a 
href="lapispuzzle/index.html">LapisPuzzle</a>
-                                               </td>
-                                               <td>
-                                                       <a 
href="ladder/index.html">Ladder</a>
-                                               </td>
-                                               <td>
-                                                 <a 
href="remotedesk/index.html">RemoteDesk</a>
-                                               </td>
-                                       </tr>
-                                       <tr>
-                                               <td>
-                                                       <a 
href="addresses/index.html">Addresses</a>
-                                               </td>
-                                               <td>
-                                                        Vespucci
- <!-- <a href="vespucci/index.html">Vespucci</a> -->
-                                               </td>
-                                               <td>
-                                                       <a 
href="pictureframe/index.html">PictureFrame</a>
-                                               </td>
-                                               <td>
-                                                       <a 
href="laternamagica/index.html">LaternaMagica</a>
-                                               </td>
-                                               <td>
-                                               </td>
-                                       </tr>
-                                       <tr>
-                                               <td>
-                                                       Bean
-                                               </td>
-                                               <td>
-                                                       Flexisheet
-                                               </td>
-                                               <td>
- <a href="gspdf/index.html">GSPdf</a>
-                                               </td>
-                                               <td>
-                                               </td>
-                                       </tr>
-                               </table>
+                       <div class="content applications">
+                       <dl>
+ <dt><a href="innerspace/">InnerSpace</a></dt><dd>Innerspace is a screensaver compatible with BackSpace from the NeXTSTEP era.</dd> + <dt><a href="timemon/">TimeMon</a></dt><dd>TimeMon gives a graphical representation of where the CPU cycles are going.</dd> + <dt><a href="batmon/">BatMon</a></dt><dd>Battery Monitor is a battery monitor for laptops.</dd>
+                       </dl>
+                       <dl>
+ <dt><a href="nextgo/">NeXTGo</a></dt><dd>The classic Go game originally written for the OPENSTEP/Mach environment.</dd> + <dt><a href="lapispuzzle/">LapisPuzzle</a></dt><dd>LapisPuzzle is a tetris-like game.</dd> + <dt><a href="ladder/index.html">Ladder</a></dt><dd>Ladder is a graphically pleasing implementation of Go.</dd>
+                       </dl>
+                       <dl>
+ <dt><a href="ftp/">FTP</a></dt><dd>FTP is a file transfer application featuring a compact and easy interface.</dd> + <dt><a href="remotedesk/index.html">RemoteDesk</a></ dt><dd>RemoteDesk uses rdesktop for remotely accessing Windows computers.</dd> + <dt><a href="gspdf/index.html">GSPdf</a></dt><dd>GSPdf is a PDF and PostScript file viewer.</dd>
+                       </dl>
+                       <dl>
+ <dt><a href="addresses/index.html">Addresses</a></ dt><dd>Addresses for GNUstep is a versatile address book application for managing contact information.</dd> + <dt><a href="pictureframe/index.html">PictureFrame</a></ dt><dd>PictureFrame makes your computer a digital picture frame.</dd> + <dt><a href="laternamagica/index.html">LaternaMagica</a></ dt><dd>A single-window image viewer application.</dd>
+                       </dl>
+                       <hr style="clear: left;"/>
                        </div>
                        <div class="content">
                                <h2>



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