Re: Potential improvements to the homepage?

[Abraham Lee]

On Sunday, August 21, 2016, Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 21. August 2016 20:58:57 MESZ, schrieb Abraham Lee <address@hidden>:
> >On Sunday, August 21, 2016, Andrew Yoon <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> My thoughts exactly. I don't think any drastic change would be called
> >for,
> >> I suspect virtually everything that would be productive could be
> >handled
> >> purely in CSS. Maybe something more in line with the design of
> >> http://lilypondblog.org/ ? But then again, I'm no designer.
> >>
> >
> >it's more than CSS. lilypondblog.org uses the Wordpress framework.
>
> But that's not too related to the appearance.
>
> I think it would be possible to refresh the design of the website with mostly CSS (except for the discussion that using current techniques is viewed quite critically here, some prefer *tested* technology that displays well on all sorts of rendering engines).
>
> But one has to be aware that current design trends tend to place *much* less text in much more generously spaced boxes. And this is something which seems to require substantial rewriting of the *contents* as well. Which looks challenging to me ...

True, Urs. I didn't mean to imply that a similar look couldn't be accomplished outside of Wordpress. I only meant to bring up that this is how lilypondblog.org does it. Creating a similar look with CSS alone will just take some work.

- Abraham