Re: Two more website styles

Christian Schlauer <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:28:00 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.auc-tex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ralf Angeli <[email protected]> writes:

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

Thanks for the link!

>> 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.

I think the start page has improved, but the emacs page looks like the
home page of a command line tool. But instead of nagging, I should
help improve the software and get my Emacs bug report out...

-- 
Christian Schlauer