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I killed the old process which had been up for 430 hours. It had been
posted on The Weekly Squeak and I never saw it go down. So, I'm thinking
Altitude is pretty stable.

I removed the large Take Part In The Innovation (TPITI) section and made
it one of the six smaller ones. I added two links (i.e. World Of
Smalltalk and Planet Squeak) to the Smalltalk Blogs.

I think Hannes wins this round. The TPITI looks better as a smaller
section, which allows the entire page to be seen without scrolling
downward.

Chris

Here's an article that might help. 

Let me know what you think of these sites as examples of ideas (not to copy per say. just ideas of what questions these web pages answer):

Let me know what you think of these sites as examples of ideas (not to copy per say. just ideas of what questions these web pages answer):

http://sproutcore.com/

http://emberjs.com/

http://www.squarespace.com/

- Darius

First to consider your first email. I don't think we're going to have a scroll down fold, so it's not a big issue anymore. The thing we want people to do is download, which is going to be the top left panel of the six, so it should be easy to see.

These three sites look similar and were likely made with a similar template. They have a horizontal layout. They look sort of busy, which is good. Lots of little details but no mooring focus. You look left and right a lot.

I think the layout we have at the moment fans out from the upper left corner, so it has a focus and motion fanning outward. What those sites do have is a dynamic use of color. And one has a great background graphic.

Maybe the bar across the top of our site needn't be black. It could be a darker hue of a color in the background. The emberjs.com and SproutCore sites do that well. Maybe we could have cobalt blue bar at the top and background of a lighter shade of blue.

Chris

Chris,

Thank you for the new version.

On 12/6/12, Chris Cunnington <[hidden email]> wrote: It looks like the flow is something as indicated in the attached screen shot


> Maybe the bar across the top of our site needn't be black. It could be a
> darker hue of a color in the background. The emberjs.com and SproutCore
> sites do that well. Maybe we could have cobalt blue bar at the top and
> background of a lighter shade of blue.

+1

--Hannes