Re: Two more website styles

* Christian Schlauer (2005-03-23) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> One remark about the last design: This is actually very cool because
>> the layout is based on em-units, i.e. it changes proportional to the
>> font size, whereas the other versions relied on fixed pixel values.
>
> That gives a really professional impression. Just curious: Did you
> come up with this yourself or did you find that in a usability guide?

I read about it in <URL:http://www.alistapart.com/articles/elastic/>
and always wanted to try this with the AUCTeX home page.  But the
current desing uses a fixed-width background image which would have
made this rather difficult.  The new design doesn't use a single
image.  (Okay, I will need some as soon as the rounded corners are to
be implemented browser-independently.)

> Maybe you should work on the Emacs web page as well ;-) Just kidding.

Well, the guidelines for maintainers of GNU software don't really
encourage you to care for your web page in terms of design, see
<URL:http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Web-Pages>.  This
is not the worst policy because it lets you keep focused on developing
the software.  But for my taste, and this is probably what you are
referring to as well, the standard design on www.gnu.org is too
simple.

-- 
Ralf