Re: Guix Oficial Website

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

Hello!

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 06:53:15PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I was about to announce it :-)  So the new web site, designed by Felipe,
> is now deployed, in time for the new release.  Big thanks to Felipe for
> the beautiful design and initial implementation, and to Mathieu for
> putting the Scheme side of things on track!

Excellent, the web site looks really nice and impressive, congratulations
to Felipe and Mathieu! (Or to us all, because we got such a nice release
present?)

> Suggestions, typos, etc. are welcome!

Did I already mention that I am not a fan of dark backgrounds? ;-)
But I know that I am part of a minority here.

The "mobile phone" part of the responsive design activates itself quite early;
personally, I am using a window that is a bit larger than half of my laptop
screen, and the mobile phone design looks weird. For instance, the menu
consists of six large panes, stacked vertically, with just a tiny bit of text
("Download", etc.) in the left corner, which takes at most 20% of the width
(while the full menu takes almost all of the height; so basically I am sitting
in front of a grey window with a bit of orange text in it). I would say that
the standard layout (with the menu items going from left to right in one row)
should be activated as soon as all the menu items fit. Maybe around 600 pixels
of window width instead of around 1000, or even down to 500 or 400 pixels?

On the download page, the items are all arranged vertically, with lots of free
space to their sides. Maybe this is also why John is seeing so much free space?
In full screen mode, I have three columns, which is a good use of the space.

On the download page, I would make the logos and file names clickable; then
maybe the download button becomes superfluous altogether. And maybe keep a bit
more space between the items, or some kind of line; especially in phone mode,
it is a bit difficult to decide whether the "download" button belongs to the
item described above or below it (but the correct solution, the item above,
is the more intuitive one, so there is no big problem here).

Andreas