[coming late to an interesting thread ...]
>>>>> "Ao" == Ajay ohri <ohri2...@gmail.com>
>>>>> on Mon, 2 Feb 2009 18:14:03 +0530 writes:
Ao> Plain HTML coding is simple enough for this list ( I think)...but
aesthetic
Ao> design....hmm
I tend to agree. A few months ago, we had volunteers to improve
the ESS homepage (http://ess.r-project.org/), and I had asked
for a similar .. but different! .. restriction :
Yes: the result should be maintainable by SVN
BUT: it can depend on server-side functionality
Consequently, the two volunteers, Domenico Vistocco and Wilmar
Igl, confined the code to using PHP (+ HTML + CSS), and while
the result is not as if it had be done by (highly paid!)
professional designers, it is a big step forward, and we've been very
grateful for Domenico's and Wilmar's initiative and its result.
Ao> But a contest would the best way to get the best design and can be
Ao> publicly asked from the graphics community ( not just the R
Ao> community)..remember Tom Sawyer and the fence :)
I would find it fun to have a contest on this...
with the restriction of "ASCII-files (+ a few pics) maintainable by SVN"
but *not* restricting it to "no-server-side modules required".
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
Ao> - I volunteer in both cases :)
Ao> Winner of Design Contest should get
Ao> some bragging rights in a small hyperlink (with nofollow tag -so no
seo)
Ao> on main page ,French Wine in the user conference location ,
Ao> etc etc...
Ao> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:26 PM,
<friedrich.lei...@stat.uni-muenchen.de>wrote:
>> >>>>> 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
>>
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