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

[Thomas Schilling]

Well, I used http://www.colorschemedesigner.com/

On 6 April 2010 16:20, Daniel Peebles <pumpkingod at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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