Re: New LilyPond website

[Jeffery Shivers]

I would suggest to get rid of the Ray-Ban advertisement on the first page - the "Learn More" button there seems redundant anyway, since it scrolls down to the

​very next ​

thing below it.

​Alternatively, i​

t would be attractive to see the

​"Features

"​

right away on that first page, and if anything goes above it maybe that could be the following:

LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts. LilyPond is free software and part of the GNU Project.

There's a ton of content missing that hasn't been copied over from the original website, and I couldn't begin to guess how you'd plan on (re)organizing all of it within the framework you have proposed.

Sort of along the same line, everything is so blown up that it all requires so much scrolling to get through (and ; the navigation is just tedious and (to me) doesn't support the kind of easy/friendly profile we'd want to welcome new users (or anyone) with.

That's all to say, I think the current website works very well as is right now, and really don't see a reason to completely transform it. Some small changes, like to the color scheme perhaps, could be nice though.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 12:53 AM, Jacques Menu Muzhic <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello John,

A well-done site!

You could make the image in the Examples page a link to the source code, as in LSR.

JM

> Le 29 nov. 2016 à 06:44, Urs Liska <address@hidden> a écrit :
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> Am 29. November 2016 02:33:25 MEZ, schrieb John Roper <address@hidden>:
>> I have thought about the no scripts idea, and I belive that right now,
>> there are not many websites that do not use _javascript_ for some
>> functionality. Wordpress it's self is almost entirely built upon
>> _javascript_
>> and php and it makes up >25% of all websites online (
>> https://martechtoday.com/wordpress-used-on-25-percent-of-all-websites-report-151115).
>> Even the lilypond blog runs on wordpress.
>
> lilypondblog.org is in many ways independent from lilypond.org and the LilyPond project.
>
> Urs
>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 8:23 PM, John Roper <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The download links are shown as such for the learning resources
>> because
>>> they are listed as downloads on the actual LilyPond website.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 8:09 PM, John Roper <address@hidden>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://unsplash.com/search/sheet-music?photo=6mXWOm43zZg
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 8:06 PM, John Roper <address@hidden>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ok, the image errors should all be fixed now.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 7:56 PM, John Roper
>> <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Nov 28, 2016 7:03 PM, "tisimst" <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi, John!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 4:27 PM, John Roper [via Lilypond]
>> <[hidden
>>>>>> email] <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=197214&i=0>>
>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi, my name is John Roper and I am a freelance developer who
>> does
>>>>>> web design among other things. I use LilyPond occasionally and I
>> felt that
>>>>>> the website needed a little bit of a sprucing up. I decided to see
>> what I
>>>>>> could do and I have created a new, nicer looking, website based on
>>>>>> wordpress which you can preview at http://jmroper.com/lilypond/. I
>>>>>> have managed to get most of the content from the other website
>> transferred
>>>>>> over and I hope to have it all done soon. I was hoping that it
>> would be
>>>>>> able to move the LilyPond blog over to the main website as well.
>> Please
>>>>>> tell me what you think.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I, for one, really like what you've done. I certainly wouldn't
>> mind
>>>>>> seeing the main site go this route, but I'm okay with it as it is
>> if that's
>>>>>> not the consensus.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A couple of first impressions/thoughts:
>>>>>>> 1. When I accessed the site, I couldn't see any images (except
>> for
>>>>>> the snippets on the examples page). Any idea why?
>>>>>>> 2. On the "Learn" page, the Split HTML and Big HTML buttons
>> shouldn't
>>>>>> say "Download" because they are accessed online. Maybe "View"?
>>>>>>> 3. I realize the site is just a prototype, but I think it would
>> be
>>>>>> better to not use the image found on the Making Notes blog as the
>> post
>>>>>> header image for the blog posts.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Great work! Can't wait to see the next iteration!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>> Abraham
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> John roper
>>>>> Freelance Developer and Simulation Artist
>>>>> Boston, MA USA
>>>>> http://jmroper.com/
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Boston, MA USA
>>>> http://jmroper.com/
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