[IPython-dev] website

Mon Jul 7 09:19:16 EDT 2014

Emily, can you open a pull request so we can see and discuss the diffs
more easily?

On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Emily Schleiner <cordial.emily at gmail.com> wrote:
> Done, you can add the issue here:
> https://github.com/cordial-emily/cordial-emily.github.io/issues
>
> Thanks,
> Emily
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Jon Wilson <jsw at fnal.gov> wrote:
>>
>> Hmm, it seems that I cannot open issues on your fork unless you
>> specifically enable them:
>>
>> http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/179468/forking-a-repo-on-github-but-allowing-new-issues-on-the-fork
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jon
>>
>>
>> On 07/04/2014 03:13 PM, Jon Wilson wrote:
>>
>> Hi Emily,
>> The text is fine on my phone.  The gray text issue occurs on my laptop
>> (Ubuntu 14.04, Firefox 30).  Sorry that I wasn't clear about that.
>>
>> And, since I just used the word "issue" above, it occurs to me that I
>> should actually be using github's "issue" feature rather than emailing you
>> about it.
>> Regards,
>> Jon
>>
>> On 07/04/2014 02:51 PM, Emily Schleiner wrote:
>>
>> Hi Aaron and Jon,
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback -- hearing about the look of the site on multiple
>> devices is especially helpful. :)
>>
>> Let's see.. the gap in scrolling (preceding images) is something I should
>> be able to fix.  For the large screen size (1400 or more pixels wide) I'll
>> limit the size of the logo so it doesn't look too pixelated and increase the
>> margins some.
>>
>> The gray text on the mobile size sounds like an anomaly based on the
>> devices I've seen so far, but I can increase the font weight for small
>> devices
>>
>> Fyi, ideally I would like to redesign the whole structure with bootstrap
>> etc but it sounds like it might not be worthwhile if the site is going to
>> revamped soon anyway...  These adjustments just make it possible to see all
>> the content (as it stands) on phones.
>>
>> Thanks all!
>> Emily
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Jon Wilson <jsw at fnal.gov> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Emily,
>>> This is quite nice stuff.  I'm glad that someone is making the effort to
>>> make a responsive page without overdesigning things.  Far too many pages are
>>> very difficult to read on mobile devices.
>>>
>>> In my browser (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:30.0)
>>> Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0), the text appears in a very light gray that is
>>> quite difficult to read against the white background.  I don't know quite
>>> why this is.
>>>
>>> On my phone (Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:30.0) Gecko/30.0
>>> Firefox/30.0), the column widths are a bit rough -- the text in the left
>>> column is quite narrow, and one piece of the right column overruns the
>>> column width and causes horizontal scrolling.  There is also a long vertical
>>> gap in the left column before reaching the end of the two-column section.
>>> Overall, I got the initial feeling that the two-column stuff was all
>>> unimportant gunk (not true, of course) that I had to scroll past to get to
>>> the real content.  I think maybe the sidebar material could be moved to the
>>> end of the page?
>>>
>>> This is only commentary on the front page.  I haven't yet taken a look at
>>> other pages.
>>> Regards,
>>> Jon
>>>
>>>
>>> On 07/03/2014 10:42 PM, Emily Schleiner wrote:
>>>
>>> Here you go:
>>> http://cordial-emily.github.io/
>>>
>>> -Emily
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Emily. Can we ask you to post a built version of the website
>>>> somewhere, so that it's easy to look at without cloning the repository and
>>>> building the site? https://pages.github.com/ is probably the easiest way to
>>>> do it.
>>>>
>>>> Thomas
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 3 July 2014 17:15, Emily Schleiner <cordial.emily at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> For anyone curious to see the changes I made, here is my branch on
>>>>> github:
>>>>> https://github.com/cordial-emily/ipython-website
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Emily Schleiner
>>>>> <cordial.emily at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've already added some responsiveness to the theme you already use --
>>>>>> and in the mean time before you have a complete change this might be helpful
>>>>>> to you. I'll just finish up the last couple of adjustments and call it good.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for letting me know!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Emily
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Emily,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks, I'm flattered that you remembered our conversation. We're
>>>>>>> actually just working out the details of hiring a designer, someone who was
>>>>>>> already known to one of the core team. It will probably be a while before we
>>>>>>> have anything concrete to show from that, but I don't want you to spend a
>>>>>>> lot of time redesigning our website if we end up replacing it with a
>>>>>>> completely new site within a year. I'll discuss with the rest of the core
>>>>>>> team what's happening with the website, but don't get too far into changing
>>>>>>> it just yet.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> One possibility is that we could point you to another open source
>>>>>>> project that's interested in this kind of work. Next week we're at SciPy, a
>>>>>>> conference where the people behind lots of scientific Python projects get
>>>>>>> together, so we can ask people there about that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>>>> Thomas
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 1 July 2014 15:23, Emily Schleiner <cordial.emily at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Dear IPython developers,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> A couple of months ago I spoke with Thomas at an Openhatch event
>>>>>>>> about the IPython website and it sounds like some design work might be
>>>>>>>> welcome. (?)  I've been lurking on your lists to get to know the group some
>>>>>>>> and have now forked the site on Github with the aim of making it responsive.
>>>>>>>> So far I don't plan on revamping the basic shape or colors, but I'm
>>>>>>>> interested to hear any design preferences from the community...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>>>>> Emily
>>>>>>>>
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