<div dir="ltr">This looks fantastic! Thanks!<div><br></div><div>Robby</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samth@cs.indiana.edu" target="_blank">samth@cs.indiana.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Recently I (with assistance from Asumu) have spent some time drafting<br>
a revised home page for Racket. A revised web page will nicely<br>
complement the big upcoming release, I hope. You can see the draft<br>
here, which is ready for people to try out:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/samth/new-web/" target="_blank">http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/samth/new-web/</a><br>
<br>
Some things to try out out: clicking the right and left arrows,<br>
clicking the "?" box, visiting the RacketCon page.<br>
<br>
The new page addresses a few problems that I see with our current page:<br>
<br>
1. It works well on small devices, which our current page doesn't.<br>
Try it out on a phone or a tablet.<br>
2. It reduces the size of the top header, which will lighten the<br>
burden on the documentation pages, for example, or the pkg index if we<br>
add the header there.<br>
3. It puts more info on the first page. This means that people are<br>
more likely to see information about how to contribute to Racket or<br>
approaches to learning programming using our tools.<br>
4. The font size is larger, which I think makes it much more readable.<br>
<br>
Perhaps more controversially, I adapted some prose about Racket from<br>
Matthias' "Racket is ..." post, and added a tag line at the top.<br>
<br>
Lots of work is still needed if we want to use this as the basis for<br>
Racket's web page (it's written in raw HTML, other pages would need<br>
work, etc), but I hope that people like it enough to continue pursuing<br>
this.<br>
<br>
Sam<br>
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