>>>>> On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:44:21 +0100, >>>>> Thomas Petzoldt (TP) wrote:
> Hi, > you are probably right, though I must say that I like *spartanic and > efficient* homepages and I don't think that the example given by the > first mail is a good prototype for the R homepage. But, yes, occasional > face lifting may be adequate. Anti-aliasing is of course simple, but > that's probably not the point. (And I know that there are graphics > experts with a masters in psychology between us.) > So, why not a new Homepage Graphics Competition 2009? There is still > some time until useR!2009 in Rennes: > http://www2.agrocampus-ouest.fr/math/useR-2009/ Perhaps we should extend that to a competition for the complete design of the homepage? We often get emails like the first in this thread that R could do with an update on homepage design (I fully agree) ... but actually nobody volunteers to do it. Hence, we still have what I did when the worldwide number of R users was probably less than 1000. For technical reasons there are some conditions: the homepage is maintained via SVN like the R sources, so all should be plain HTML, no content management system etc. Ad frames: the main reason that I used them in the first place is to have the menus etc in only one file, no need for updating several files when a link changes. Today I would probably use iframes, but any other soultion is fine, too. Another plus would be if we could use the same design for CRAN, and that means no server-trickery like server-side includes etc (because we do not control the server setup of the mirrors). Best, Fritz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Friedrich Leisch Institut für Statistik Tel: (+49 89) 2180 3165 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Fax: (+49 89) 2180 5308 Ludwigstraße 33 D-80539 München http://www.statistik.lmu.de/~leisch ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Journal Computational Statistics --- http://www.springer.com/180 Münchner R Kurse --- http://www.statistik.lmu.de/R ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
