Refactor structure #46
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This standardizes capitalization in the menu and categorizes things into more distinct categories that I hope are more helpful. Quite frankly we could use a web designer to give this kind of thing a once over, I'm a web developer :).
Order them roughly in the order that you'd use them being a novice, I think.
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Interesting. Any particular rationale for the reordering of the nav structure? |
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The literal ordering rationale was simply "The menu items are roughly ordered left-to-right in the order you use them.". It makes sense to me since western audiences read left to right. As far as the reorganizing of categories(removing some, adding others) and such, it was mainly just based on what I felt made sense. No real hard reasons. |
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Off to bed. I imagine this should be a discussion, let me know if you want to do IRC chat or even a call or something. |
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@mordocai Somewhat. My heroic weakness is UX. If you're practiced at making sites easy to use and comfortable for newbies, I am happy to defer. I compared the two sites and I don't have a strong opinion. |
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I don't consider myself great at UI but I have a friend who I do consider great at it. I'm going to have her take a look at both versions and offer suggestions |
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The one thing is that I would like to ensure a highly information-driven aesthetic, with minimal "pop" and "flair"; just enough to smoothly and effectively communicate. |
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Just to let you know, I haven't forgotten about this. My friend just hasn't had time to take a look yet. |
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noted! I look forward to a design critique. :) |
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@mordocai, I like your revised structure of the site. I think the current menu, while no doubt functional, feels rather hacked up ("env" instead of "Lisp Environment" or some such, lower-case first letters). Your changes eliminate that and make the whole site more easily navigable. (I was confused by the menu myself when I first saw the site.) @pnathan, I vote for adapting the menu. |
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@pnathan, I'm the friend @mordocai mentioned! I understand the goal is straightforward-ness and clarity rather than "making it pop", and @mordocai's changes definitely help achieve that end. As a non-Lisper myself, I'm a great test subject, and I prefer the new menu structure. I vote for merging. In an ideal world, I think the best case scenario would be a bit of a 'getting started guide' that culminated in the list of further resources. That said - this is a great start. |
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ok! |
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Hey, when do you expect this will be deployed to the live site? Just wondering because I want to double check everything on live since I'm paranoid. |
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Good question... Probably by Sunday night.
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@pnathan, great! I think I'll take a look at the CLisp page, it's the implementation I use so I should be able to write something about it... |
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@veddox - thanks! Love to see it! On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 1:50 PM, veddox notifications@github.com wrote:
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@pnathan I submitted a pull request. Let's switch the discussion over to the next thread ;-) |
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This completely refactors the file and menu structure of the site.
My feeling is that this new structure is not ideal but is better than the current.
Two questions: