[yt-dev] Website redesign feedback

[Geoffrey So]

"Ah, I agree about the doc link; not sure about the other two. What about
switching blog to being under Quick Links and replacing it with a link to
the latest stable docs? I don't think a search box will quite work on the
toolbar."

- Doc would be my first choice, too.  Search is within the doc so it would
be just one step away, and usually I wouldn't know what to search for until
after I looked at the Docs, so not having search at the beginning is fine.

"Where should the colors be changed? I do want to brighten the text a bit,
but can you suggest other places?"

- I just thought the color template of the Docs looks pretty nice, kind of
similar to python/numpy etc, but I also understand the need for the black
background since we're doing astro, but some addition of bright colors
would help "lighten" the mood (pun intended), so maybe use a brighter shade
of grey for the text, and/or color coded section label.  But I also noticed
my laptop brightness wasn't turned all the way up, so at max brightness it
is not as gloomy as I thought before.

From
G.S.


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Geoffrey,
>
> On Sep 19, 2013 9:06 PM, "Geoffrey So" <gsiisg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > These are just personal preference:
> >
> > I usually use the yt website to look things up when I don't know or
> forgot something, so I would prefer to have one of the following on the
> tabs on the front page in descending preference.
> >
> > 1) documentation
> > 2) search function
> > 3) quick start guide
> >
> > This would help me at least to find information I want about yt faster
> and make the site more useful.
> >
>
> Ah, I agree about the doc link; not sure about the other two. What about
> switching blog to being under Quick Links and replacing it with a link to
> the latest stable docs? I don't think a search box will quite work on the
> toolbar.
>
> > I think it's great to have a link at the very top, enabling/encouraging
> people to become developers.  The site looks fresh from some of the new
> images on the gallery, but I'd like to see more more bright colors to
> contrast the black background
> >
>
> Where should the colors be changed? I do want to brighten the text a bit,
> but can you suggest other places?
>
> Matt
>
> > From
> > G.S.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> The last week or so, I've been working on a redesign of the website.
> >> I've gotten some really good feedback from Nathan, Britton and a few
> >> others, and I think it's ready to be opened up for more general
> >> comments.
> >>
> >> The redesign pull request is here:
> >>
> >>
> https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/website/pull-request/11/draft-redesign-using-twitter-bootstrap/diff
> >>
> >> and the redesign itself can be viewed here:
> >>
> >> http://yt-project.org/index2.html
> >>
> >> There were a couple goals here:
> >>
> >>  * Make information much easier to get at
> >>  * Reduce the text and increase the size of the text on the front page
> >>  * Make the website *way* easier for people to edit
> >>  * Make the website *way* less javascript heavy
> >>  * Indicate much more strongly that we're part of the scientific
> >> Python ecosystem
> >>  * Emphasize that yt is analysis-focused with visualization built on
> >> that, rather than the other way around
> >>
> >> There are a few visual glitches still (the headings underline when you
> >> mouse over them, and I'm trying to make the text lighter) but I think
> >> it's ready for feedback.  I'd appreciate any comments, either here or
> >> on the pull request.  And, if we decide this is *not* the direction to
> >> go, that's fine too!
> >>
> >> Britton and I have gone back and forth on how to fix up the gallery
> >> and integrate the hub and the blog more deeply.  That's a much longer
> >> project, but we see the three all coming together nicely in the
> >> future.  As it stands, the Gallery will likely include a few images
> >> linked to scientific papers, link to a few things on the hub
> >> (notebooks, projects, etc), and is currently handled via version
> >> control.
> >>
> >> Britton's working on expanding it, but if you can read this, you
> >> should also add some stuff to it!  Ultimately what I think would work
> >> best would be to solicit contributions directly, solicit contributions
> >> to the hub, and then flag some things for display in the gallery.  It
> >> would be nice to include basically all types of contributions here --
> >> notebooks, scripts, figures, papers -- and I'm coming to really think
> >> the gallery is essential.
> >>
> >> Incidentally, this week as Anthony and I have been working on getting
> >> support for PyNE interoperability with yt, I've had occasion to view
> >> their docs and found them to be really nice.  The gallery system they
> >> have is quite nice and very similar to where we're going with the yt
> >> docs and the cookbook, but just a *little* bit further than we've
> >> gone:
> >>
> >> http://pynesim.org/
> >> http://pynesim.org/gallery/index.html
> >>
> >> If we decide this website is the way to go, I'll spend some time
> >> trying to make our docs play look a bit nicer with it, although likely
> >> not with black background.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any feedback,
> >>
> >> Matt
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