[ocaml-infra] Redesigning OCaml.org

[Ashish Agarwal]

This is great. I'm excited about the new design! Few comments:

* Should the categories Learn, Platform, etc. have their links right on the
front page? It is one extra click if you first have to click Learn, and
then get to a landing page, and then click something else. On the other
hand, the current design is cleaner.

* On my mobile phone, the drop down menus currently get converted to an
easy to scroll menu/sub-menu list. It seems to work quite well, so I don't
see the problem. Having the drop down menus would resolve the above point.
You get both a clean design and quick access to sub-menu items.

* The new design is less space efficient than the current one. The fonts
are bigger and there is more whitespace. Is that good? I tend to like
seeing more content in a given amount of screen space.



On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Amir Chaudhry <amc79 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> On 6 Aug 2013, at 11:46, Christophe TROESTLER <
> Christophe.Troestler at umons.ac.be> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the work Philippe !
> >
> > On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 09:53:22 +0100, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> >>
> >> Feedback on the design would be most useful, as we can do a few
> iterations with the company that did the HTML/CSS/logo work and make sure
> we're all happy with the final result.  Personally, I love the new front
> page.
> >
> > Maybe one can discuss first the front page.  Here are a few questions.
> >
> > - Where should all the links of the current page go?  On sub-pages or
> may some of them (which ones) appear below "Learn",...?  If we move them to
> separate pages, what text must be put on the side of the four boxes?
>
> It might be helpful to play with the interactive wireframe demo (link
> below) to see how content is laid out.  In order to make the site easier to
> navigate, there'll be additional 'landing pages', which is where the new
> headings will point to.  The links (and content) will be put on those
> pages.  The text on the side of the images will be descriptive.  See
> http://git-scm.com for an example.
>
> In general, the aim of the front page is to be a lot cleaner and make it
> easier for people to figure out what content they're after and demonstrate
> that the OCaml community is an active one.
>
> demo:
> https://ocaml.mybalsamiq.com/projects/public-demo/naked/0_home?key=b897ea86d8a8199c6e46b3295ddf630dfa33e5e1
>
> Also, video walkthroughs at:
> http://amirchaudhry.com/wireframe-demos-for-ocamlorg/
>
>
> > - Do we want the top menu stay as it is or offer drop-downs?  The latter
> reduces the number of clicks but one may prefer to always land on the
> dedicated pages.
>
> I'm against drop-down lists.  They're really really difficult to navigate
> from mobile devices.
>
> > - Is the current distinction between more permanent news (managed by
> hand) and RSS feeds enough?  Also, one would certainly like to add
> "Preliminary program is available" under "OCaml 2013".
>
> This is something that I'd consider to be a new 'news' story and would be
> a bookmarked story (replacing the previous one).  Anything more than that
> starts to feel complicated with not much gain.  Do you feel differently?
>
> > - Do we want a "Read more" button under "OCaml is an industrial..."?  Or
> rather a "What is OCaml?" under "Learn"?
>
> This is probably a good idea but I'm extremely wary of adding too many
> links on the front page.  The more links there are, the less likely I feel
> anyone is to click them.  Having said that, a 'read more', or something
> like it, does make sense for the intro paragraph.
>
> > - In the "Packages" table, do we really want an "author" column?  The
> "Package" column is already not wide enough.  One could also think about
> putting in a tooltip the single line describing the package.  Finally, I do
> not think OPAM has a "Category" field ATM.
>
> I'm perfectly happy to drop the Author column in the package list, and
> probably Category too (I can't remember when/why I added that - I was
> probably thinking of tags, which we do want).  I'm expecting this table to
> be fairly easy to iterate on so I'm not too concerned about it at the
> moment (just as long as it exists)
>
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