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

[Jeff Heard]

There's colourlovers.com as well



On Apr 6, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Thomas Schilling  
<nominolo at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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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