From: Sam Roberts Date: 2005-02-18T01:08:08+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Visual Identity Team Wrote "James G. Britt " , on Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 11:49:03PM +0900: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:37:14 +0900, Sam Roberts wrote: > > Quoteing rff_rff@remove-yahoo.it, on Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 05:34:49PM +0900: > > > James Britt ha scritto: > > > (my two cents) > > > the [i] button is interesting, but It is not that obvious to me what it > > > does, I wonder if there is a way of making it more clear :/ > > > > I didn't know that it did anything, and when I pressed it, i don't know > > what I'm looking at... My vote - nuke it. > > The intent is to provide a way to give more information about any > particular resource to see if it is worth pursuing so that a user does > not have to load each remote page to see what it is about. Whether > or nor this particular implementation serves that goal is another > matter. Just trying to give useful feedback... and I don't understand what the info is. It looks kindof like a snippet of cvs log, but I can't decipher. > > I like the overall layout a lot more. The stuff I want is more > > prominent, suggestions: > > > > RAA and rubyforge should be on top bar > > I don't see how they are immediately relevant to Ruby documentation or the RDP. I misunderstood your post. from the context I thought you were proposing this as possible ruby-lang.org front page. I think it is a lot nicer than current ruby-lang front-page, but missing a few useful links, those above. > > nuke the ads, why do we need ads on ruby-lang.org? > > Money. Again, just my opinion, but going to ruby-lang.org and seeing a slew of perl & python ads down the side yesterday (mustve been triggered by association of ruby with "scripting language", today there is only one other scripting language, and three asian translation links,) was weird. Of course, I'm not paying for the sites, and I'd rather have the site with ads than no site at all, so if the money is needed, there you go. See comment below on relative size of google ad and ruby-lang.org's content bar, though. Your beta page has more content than google, unlike ruby-lang. > > at bottom of page, add the "news" section that is now the core > > of ruby-lang.org's page > > There is so little news that it isn't worth featuring on the main page > anymore. People interested in news from the site would do far better > to get it from an RSS feed. My comment was assuming that this page was offered as replacement for ruby-lang.org. The fact that most of the ruby-lang.org is take up by a blog that would be better read by RSS, and that the google ad is about the same size as the content listing on the left, and that I have to search through the small type for anything I've ever wanted, is something I don't like about the ruby-lang.org site. So, if any are going to work an a redesign, and are interested in user comments, the above are mine. > > all the more... buttons end in an internal error, intended? > > See my previous posting where I say that most links do not work > (unless you're talking about JavaScript or WEBrick errors). Most of > those will behave as they do on the current ruby-doc site. "most" doesn't say which should or should not work. If those links are not intended to be working yet, thats cool, if they are thought to work by you, just letting you know they don't work for me. Cheers, Sam -- Sam Roberts