Re: New LilyPond website

[John Roper]

Once we agree on the particulars for this page, I will make one more
page and then start to integrate with the textinfo docs.

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Paul <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 11/30/2016 09:19 AM, John Roper wrote:
>
>> I added a small shadow to the boxes, and I fixed some coloring of
>> links. You may have to force-refresh the page to see the changes (CTRL
>> + F5)
>
>
> Hi John,  Overall, I like it and I think it's an improvement over what we
> currently have.  The responsive design for smaller screens is a big
> improvement.  There are some minor adjustments that I might suggest, but no
> show stoppers.  I'll just mention a couple things at this point.
>
> I like the sans-serif.  Verdana and Tahoma are sans fonts designed for
> screens (rather than print) that are widely installed on different OSes.
> There may be others.  So it might be worth trying these instead of Arial
> which was designed for print.
>
> I actually liked your earlier version (with the flatter look) better than
> the one with the drop shadows.  To me the shadows make the page look more
> asymmetrical and boxy in a distracting way.  (Just one opinion.)
>
> I've put up some screenshots to make it possible to compare those two
> versions:
>
>   http://clairnote.org/  lilypond-screenshots/
>
> (Just remove the two spaces in the URL, added here to prevent
> crawling/indexing by search engine bots.)
>
> When you get a chance it would be interesting to see how other pages would
> look.  And eventually I assume we'd want to convert your HTML to texinfo to
> integrate with the current setup.
>
> Thanks again for your work on this,
> -Paul
>
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John Roper
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