[yt-dev] Website redesign feedback

[Nathan Goldbaum]

Youtube or vimeo embeds would be straightforward.  Embedding raw videos
using a video tag would also work but there might be codec/browser
compatibility issues.

On Friday, September 20, 2013, Britton Smith wrote:

> I just want to respond to Cameron's question about the gallery.  I don't
> think it should have to be in a published paper, but I would like it to
> highlight as much of yt's analysis functionality as possible.  There is
> often the temptation too fill it with a bunch of gorgeous renders, which
> are really impressive, but don't really give anyone the impression that yt
> is used for quantitative analysis.  The only real bar I was hoping for
> submissions is that they be something that was used in some sort of
> professional context.  This could be a paper, but also a talk, press
> release, outreach material, or anything that was actual used for a purpose
> other than just making something that's pretty.  In that sense, the gallery
> is basically a place to show off the niche that yt is serving in the real
> world.  Maybe this could even include embedded movies.  Would that be
> possible?
>
> Everyone, please contribute!
>
> Britton
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've updated based on, I think, all of the suggestions (except the
> facebook button, which somebody else needs to get the code for and
> send me) and updated both the deployment and the PR.  Nathan fixed the
> images on the carousel, and I can't take credit for that.  :)
>
> Any other feedback?
>
> -Matt
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Oh, and the "yt-project" link in the upper left of the header does not
> link
> > to anything.  it might be good to have that link to Home.  In fact, you
> > might be able to do away with the Home link if you were to do this.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I think it would be useful to have a link to both the stable docs as
> well
> >> as the dev docs, if that's an option.  Even with the increased
> frequency of
> >> releases, there is still some lag time between dev docs getting pulled
> into
> >> the stable.
> >>
> >> Under the community page, the last link on the Sharing Scripts header
> has
> >> a typo: pastebine.
> >>
> >> Under the development page, there is a word missing in the second
> >> sentence: "...the development branch, the and even this website."
> >>
> >> I think the gallery is a great idea--now we just have to populate it.
>  Is
> >> the idea to show off published work?  Does it have to be published?
>  Also, I
> >> think we should have people submit both a thumbprint (400x400 as is
> done) as
> >> well as a full-res image which is linked through the thumbprint.  Or
> perhaps
> >> it's enough that the paper is linked?
> >>
> >> So we'll also have another gallery in the docs with images shown as well
> >> as the cookbook recipes which created them (a la matplotlib)?  I think
> that
> >> would be useful.
> >>
> >> Overall, I think the page looks good.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Geoffrey So <gsiisg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> "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
>
>
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