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Avogadro / two.avogadro.cc

Documentation and development website for Avogadro2
https://two.avogadro.cc/
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Proposed homepage redesign #88

Closed matterhorn103 closed 1 month ago

matterhorn103 commented 1 month ago

Work I did on redesigning the home page with a modern look inspired by the Blender and KDE home pages.

ghutchis commented 1 month ago

Thanks! Could you upload a screenshot of the new version? This would help a bit understand the redesign, but it looks reasonable to me.

matterhorn103 commented 1 month ago

Sure :)

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matterhorn103 commented 1 month ago

image We could maybe do with a screenshot of the interface that's more zoomed in I think, something that shows things off a bit better, but I don't think it's a bad idea to lead with an actual screenshot of the program

ghutchis commented 1 month ago

Let's give it a shot. Seems like it's a little "long" but hey, I know my views on web development date back to 1997. 😄

ghutchis commented 1 month ago

We could maybe do with a screenshot of the interface that's more zoomed in I think, something that shows things off a bit better, but I don't think it's a bad idea to lead with an actual screenshot of the program

The challenge is that the interface is "big." The Blender homepage, for example, just leaves the interace as-is for what it's worth.

matterhorn103 commented 1 month ago

Let's give it a shot. Seems like it's a little "long" but hey, I know my views on web development date back to 1997. 😄

That's definitely not an unfair criticism. I was originally just attempting to preserve all the information that was on the page before, and all the images that were in the carousel.

Blender has 6 of those little image + text pairs, whereas we have 9. Though they take up more space there, so I don't think the scrolling distance is dissimilar, but still, I wouldn't be averse to dropping one or two.

I would suggest that the "Open" section doesn't add a lot of actual information (that Avo is open source is stated at the very top of the page) and could be readily dropped, for example.