[Bioperl-l] a Main Page proposal

[Peter]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Robert Buels <rmb32 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>
> I think what Sendu was trying to say is that he didn't like the gradient
> section heads?  There are only two graphical things on that page, and the
> other one is an enlargement of the existing logo, so I suppose that's what
> he means.

On my browser the gradient section headers on that draft
suddenly change to grey for the section title text background
(Linux, Firefox 3.0.14).

Personally, I would also say that even this proposal is still
far too heavy (in terms of text content).

We had some similar discussions about the Biopython wiki
based homepage - although our old one was nowhere near
as busy as the current BioPerl main page, it was still not as
welcoming as our current version *tries* to be.

Old:
http://biopython.org/w/index.php?title=Biopython&oldid=2527

New:
http://biopython.org/wiki/Main_Page

It would be easy for you to embed the BioPerl OBF blog
headlines into the main page like we did.

I can dig out links to our mailing list archive if anyone is
interested in the discussion.

Peter