[IPython-dev] website

Jon Wilson jsw at fnal.gov
Fri Jul 4 14:27:19 EDT 2014


Hi Emily,
This is quite nice stuff.  I'm glad that someone is making the effort to 
make a responsive page without overdesigning things.  Far too many pages 
are very difficult to read on mobile devices.

In my browser (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:30.0) 
Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0), the text appears in a very light gray that 
is quite difficult to read against the white background.  I don't know 
quite why this is.

On my phone (Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:30.0) Gecko/30.0 
Firefox/30.0), the column widths are a bit rough -- the text in the left 
column is quite narrow, and one piece of the right column overruns the 
column width and causes horizontal scrolling.  There is also a long 
vertical gap in the left column before reaching the end of the 
two-column section.  Overall, I got the initial feeling that the 
two-column stuff was all unimportant gunk (not true, of course) that I 
had to scroll past to get to the real content.  I think maybe the 
sidebar material could be moved to the end of the page?

This is only commentary on the front page.  I haven't yet taken a look 
at other pages.
Regards,
Jon

On 07/03/2014 10:42 PM, Emily Schleiner wrote:
> Here you go:
> http://cordial-emily.github.io/
>
> -Emily
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com 
> <mailto:takowl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks Emily. Can we ask you to post a built version of the
>     website somewhere, so that it's easy to look at without cloning
>     the repository and building the site? https://pages.github.com/ is
>     probably the easiest way to do it.
>
>     Thomas
>
>
>     On 3 July 2014 17:15, Emily Schleiner <cordial.emily at gmail.com
>     <mailto:cordial.emily at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         For anyone curious to see the changes I made, here is my
>         branch on github:
>         https://github.com/cordial-emily/ipython-website
>
>
>         On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Emily Schleiner
>         <cordial.emily at gmail.com <mailto:cordial.emily at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             Hi Thomas,
>
>             I've already added some responsiveness to the theme you
>             already use -- and in the mean time before you have a
>             complete change this might be helpful to you. I'll just
>             finish up the last couple of adjustments and call it good.
>
>             Thanks for letting me know!
>
>             Emily
>
>
>
>
>             On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Thomas Kluyver
>             <takowl at gmail.com <mailto:takowl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                 Hi Emily,
>
>                 Thanks, I'm flattered that you remembered our
>                 conversation. We're actually just working out the
>                 details of hiring a designer, someone who was already
>                 known to one of the core team. It will probably be a
>                 while before we have anything concrete to show from
>                 that, but I don't want you to spend a lot of time
>                 redesigning our website if we end up replacing it with
>                 a completely new site within a year. I'll discuss with
>                 the rest of the core team what's happening with the
>                 website, but don't get too far into changing it just yet.
>
>                 One possibility is that we could point you to another
>                 open source project that's interested in this kind of
>                 work. Next week we're at SciPy, a conference where the
>                 people behind lots of scientific Python projects get
>                 together, so we can ask people there about that.
>
>                 Best wishes,
>                 Thomas
>
>
>                 On 1 July 2014 15:23, Emily Schleiner
>                 <cordial.emily at gmail.com
>                 <mailto:cordial.emily at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                     Dear IPython developers,
>
>                     A couple of months ago I spoke with Thomas at an
>                     Openhatch event about the IPython website and it
>                     sounds like some design work might be welcome. (?)
>                      I've been lurking on your lists to get to know
>                     the group some and have now forked the site on
>                     Github with the aim of making it responsive. So
>                     far I don't plan on revamping the basic shape or
>                     colors, but I'm interested to hear any design
>                     preferences from the community...
>
>                     Best wishes,
>                     Emily
>
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