Very nice. On the Scientific Domains tab there’s extra spaces in that parenthesis:
I just noticed that the links are also wrong.
Hah. I formerly worked in a medical imaging unit at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London.
The placement of the apostrophe resulted in many letters to the Times.
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Thanks - looks like the image is too large, we need to enhance it with responsive image code.
Thank you, yes, we talked about this too. And I feel the same. Initially, the inner pages were using Futura but reading anything longer than a headline is hard.
We want to run some experiments with different fonts, something modern and more readable, like Roboto maybe.
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I tried to optimise the image but can’t get much - it’s got a lot of detail and colors (gradient) and leads to visible quality loss when we achieve any significant decrease in size.
@essenciary great work on the design!
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Frutiger might be worth trying?
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It’s a really nice, clean design. Did you experiment with heavier use of the ‘Julia colours’?
I generally like the Roboto font, might be a good idea.
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Good work, nice design.
Little detail, navbar underline works well before selecting, however, once the tab selected underline it’s blocked under home tab. It is purposely made?
That was a bug - now fixed.
I pushed a series of readability improvements (including swapped Futura for Roboto). I think it helps a lot given the focus on content.
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The tabs on top of the page: “Home”, “Downloads”, “Documentation”, “Blog”, etc. all behave like tabs, and stay in place when you select one. Except for the “Documentation” tab, which sends you to a completely new page. It doesn’t really behave like a tab.
Should it be styled differently, or something? It’s a bit jarring when you are moving through the tabs to get an overview.
The “Donate” link also sends you to a new website, and is styled accordingly.
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Note that the website is all up on github, so it’s easy to make small tweaks like adding hyperlinks – https://github.com/JuliaLang/www.julialang.org
(It might be nice to add an “edit this page” button as well).
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5 MB of GIF animations are way too much I believe. Can’t it be made an encoded video since I remember Plots.jl supports it? Then, autoplay, loop, etc.
Also Firefox seems to not apply anti-aliasing filters on your GIF animations (at least the one I use) during scaling, which makes it render really bad, especially the GIF under Data Science tab.
The minesweeper image is rescaled without maintaining W/H ratio.
It would really look good if the Julia in a Nutshell part was a bit interactive like that in scala-lang.org, or at least redirect users to a relevant article.
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It seems that the total page size is 17.3MB. That seems way too large, especially for those on limited mobile connections.
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Great idea. Done.
Can you file an issue? We have to put the whole thing on a diet, especially on the mobile.
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This has been fixed now.
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Thanks. Fixed now, I think.
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Done!
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In the tab “Rich Ecosystem for Scientific Computing:” it might be good to mention the powerful and intuitive handling of arrays (including sparse matrices) in a variety of floating-point representations.