[Haskell-cafe] Darcs home page updated

[Paul R]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:27:57 -0700, Simon Michael <simon at joyful.com> said:

Simon> With 2.8 released, I felt Darcs deserves better presentation. After
Simon> surveying other VCS sites I worked on an update to our home page
Simon> layout and content over the last few days, with review and input from
Simon> #darcs, and it went live last night. It's far from perfect but I hope
Simon> it's a good step forward. Thanks for the input, and have at it:

Simon> http://darcs.net


Hi, that looks good, thanks. Here are some ideas :

 - The purple color of titles is not very attractive, changing it to
   something more saturated would make it look fresher.

 - the purple color rounded box is not very attractive either :)

 - there is a video right on the first page, good ! Unfortunatly, it is
   not showing darcs but its cousin. Also, the title is "why do we
   continue to develop ... [camp]", which isn't the most positive
   approach one can expect on a start page

 - the compact tutorial is great, I love it. It deserves more poish. For
   inspiration, one can have a look at this website for example :
     
     http://gembundler.com/

 - underlined links looks a bit 90's. You can add a simple css rule to
   choose an other color and remove the underline (though it is good
   practice to set it on mouseover)

cheers,

-- 
  Paul