[Shootout-list] Re: New website look

[Peter Hinely]

Hi,

>> The front page is one of the blandest home pages I've seen in a long
>> time.
>> Actually it reminds me of one of those domain-name-squatter sites.
>> How about some minimal graphics and design work to spice it up?  I
>> don't like the fonts being used and the general aesthetics.
>
>How about some minimal thought on what kind of graphic might have some
>relevance? (Are you offering the services of a graphic artist?)

I'm not an artist and don't pretend to be.  But the old home page was
much more pleasing to my eye.

>
>> Also what happened to the links to the mailing list, news, etc.?
>Seek and you shall find!

What does that mean?

>
>> The ackermann benchmark | C++ g++ rankings | Side-by-side
>> navigation doesn't make any sense to me.
>What do you mean it doesn't make any sense to you?
>- do you mean that you don't know what pages the links will lead to?
>- do you mean that you don't think those links should be there?
>- do you mean those links should be somewhere else on the page?

#1 and #3. Example:
ackermann Clean program
ackermann benchmark | Clean rankings | Side-by-side

You have more links that are more general *after* the more specific header
"ackermann Clean program". Also Side-by-side is not very descriptive.
Side-bye-side what?

I think the navigation bar that I have depicted below would be much
clearer.  Also it should be on each page.  (The current site is
very inconsistent in regards to navigation.)

All benchmarks      Ackermann benchmark      Ackermann benchmark
(Clean language)    (all langauges)          (peformance graph of
                                               selected languages)

(and a 4th column with the  |Ackermann| |Clean| [Show]

Ackermann Clean benchmark

//
// File:     Ackermann
// Language: Concurrent Clean 2.0
// Author:   Michael Neumann (neumann@s-direktnet.de)
// Date:     23 March 2002
//



>
>> I don't like the 1 1/2 inches of blank space on the left margin of
>> the pages.
>That must be a nice display - I can't get the left margin above 1 1/4"
>with the window at full screen. Perhaps you could just make the window
>smaller?

I have a 21" display, which is not large by today's standards.  I don't
think we should expect the viewer to adjust the size of the browser Window
to make the web site look decent.

>
>> The graphs should have gridlines and scales.
>Which graphs?

The "side-by-side" graphs.

Regards,
Peter