[Bioperl-l] a Main Page proposal

[Mark A. Jensen]

I liked the idea of moving the search box up the page, but couldn't make it happen from the wiki; it appears to be added internally after the sidebar is rendered...Can this be done? cheers MAJ 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brian Osborne 
  To: Mark A. Jensen 
  Cc: BioPerl List 
  Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 10:42 PM
  Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] a Main Page proposal


  Mark,


  I don't love the italics in the version that Chris made but that's just personal preference. He's right in thinking that putting more in the top of the page is good: less scrolling.


  One could color the backgrounds of his tables, that might look nice.


  Either way, or a combination of both, is preferable to what we have. There really is no need to wait since the current page is abysmal. I can say that freely since I'm probably one of its authors!


  One thought though: move the "search" up to a center-left location, below "main links". The Wiki search is pretty good at finding pages so if someone doesn't find what they're looking for in the main section they might be drawn to search for it.


  Brian O.




  On Sep 25, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Mark A. Jensen wrote:


    Cheers, Brian-- I am becoming swayed now by Chris' whack at it, on his talk page. My thought is that we'll hammer out the final version after the release, then pull the trigger-- Your thoughts?
    MAJ
    ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Osborne" <bosborne11 at verizon.net>
    To: "Mark A. Jensen" <maj at fortinbras.us>
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    Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 10:13 PM
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      Mark,

      Really nice, and a significant improvement over the existing.

      You've gotten good feedback, you've considered these thoughts and  incorporated them - is it time to move the beta to Main? Yes. In my  opinion your 'beta' is far superior - just do it.

      Brian O.

      On Sep 21, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Mark A. Jensen wrote:

        A nearly completely minimal solution is at Main Page Beta

        ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Messina" <David.Messina at sbc.su.se >

        To: "Mark A. Jensen" <maj at fortinbras.us>

        Cc: "BioPerl List" <bioperl-l at lists.open-bio.org>

        Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 1:03 PM

        Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] a Main Page proposal





          Hi Mark,

          Thanks for taking on this (much needed) refresh.

          I think your current version is substantially better than what we  have now.

          Still, I'd argue that something much more concise like the  Biopython page

          would make a bigger impact on visitors' ability to find what  they're looking

          for.

          It's not that the details you have under each section shouldn't be

          available, but rather that they could be clicked through to instead  of being

          on the front page.

          The About section is a good example. I would bet most visitors to the

          BioPerl website skip over the About section because they already  know what

          BioPerl is, and that section has the most valuable real estate on  the page.

          Those who don't know and are curious will probably be able to find  it (the

          word About on the front page of a website has become an idiom for  "click her

          to read the details about this").

          Dave

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