[racket-dev] Revising Racket's home page

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> I get a "Go to the Choose page to select fonts" page.
>
> But reloading the draft Racket page (should have tried that in the
> first place) seems to have fixed the problem.

Ok, great.  I think there are more sophisticated things I can do to
make that less likely, but I won't worry for now.

Sam

>
> At Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:26:23 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> > Fantastic!
>> >
>> > The non-code font shows up rasterized on my phone (iPhone 4s running
>> > iOS 5.1.1), while the code font looks fine. Both fonts look right on my
>> > mini-tablet (Nexus 7).
>>
>> That's very odd. Both fonts are loaded from Google fonts, so they
>> should either both work or not.
>>
>> What do you see here:
>> http://www.google.com/fonts/#QuickUsePlace:quickUse/Family:
>>
>> >
>> > At Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:39:54 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>> >> Recently I (with assistance from Asumu) have spent some time drafting
>> >> a revised home page for Racket. A revised web page will nicely
>> >> complement the big upcoming release, I hope.  You can see the draft
>> >> here, which is ready for people to try out:
>> >>
>> >>   http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/samth/new-web/
>> >>
>> >> Some things to try out out: clicking the right and left arrows,
>> >> clicking the "?" box, visiting the RacketCon page.
>> >>
>> >> The new page addresses a few problems that I see with our current page:
>> >>
>> >> 1. It works well on small devices, which our current page doesn't.
>> >> Try it out on a phone or a tablet.
>> >> 2. It reduces the size of the top header, which will lighten the
>> >> burden on the documentation pages, for example, or the pkg index if we
>> >> add the header there.
>> >> 3. It puts more info on the first page.  This means that people are
>> >> more likely to see information about how to contribute to Racket or
>> >> approaches to learning programming using our tools.
>> >> 4. The font size is larger, which I think makes it much more readable.
>> >>
>> >> Perhaps more controversially, I adapted some prose about Racket from
>> >> Matthias' "Racket is ..." post, and added a tag line at the top.
>> >>
>> >> Lots of work is still needed if we want to use this as the basis for
>> >> Racket's web page (it's written in raw HTML, other pages would need
>> >> work, etc), but I hope that people like it enough to continue pursuing
>> >> this.
>> >>
>> >> Sam
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