[yt-dev] Website redesign feedback

[Britton Smith]

That sounds cool to me.  I think vimeo or youtube embeds would be enough.
Does anyone have any objections to having movies in the gallery?


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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