Re: new website: initial comments

[Patrick McCarty]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:11:31AM +0200, Federico Bruni wrote:
> Graham Percival wrote:
>> Here's a very rough initial draft of our new website:
>> http://percival-music.ca/blogfiles/out/lilypond-general_1.html
>>
>> Any comments or offers of help?  At the moment, I'm looking for
>> overall design issues, like "you should have a `blarg' section on
>> the main menu" or "I can't find the current documentation on this
>> new website".
>>
>
> I like very much the horizontal bar with the links to all the main docs.
> And it looks nice also..

Thanks!

> Actually, I like the three-color sections in the main page: they help  
> highlighting what's relevant for each different user..
>
> I would just change some minor things:
> - I would use the same height for the Beginner and Normal users divs
> - I'll add some padding above the "Advanced users" title
> - I would also change the mustard yellow color of the Beginners div into 
> some less "depressing" color ;-)
> What about this (or similar): FFCC00  ?

I'll be reworking this page; I'm sure Graham didn't intend for these
to be the final colors.  :-)

IMO, the divs (from left to right) should be

--------------------------------
Beginner --> Normal --> Advanced
--------------------------------

but I will keep your suggestions in mind.  I should have the CSS more
finalized in a few days.

Thanks,
Patrick