Re: the sc downloads webpage

Hi Dan,

I have realised when teaching SC that people do indeed get quite confused by this page.

I had a look, but I don't think anything has to be removed. To me it's a question of layout.

It's about making empty spaces on the page. And perhaps rephrasing some sentences.

Suggestions:

1) put a banner background for the OSs headings. Like:

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Mac OS X

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This banner could have some colour.

You could even put a box around each OS blurb. That would make things more "blocky".

2) Leave a space between the last line of one OS info until you get to the next OS banner. e.g.

          | here |

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GNU/Linux

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3) Update the text (Psychollider is now called SuperCollider)

4) Write a text describing the Plugins and Extensions graph.

5) Perhaps remove all (updated september 2007...) as those that make a new build

and upload, typically forget to edit this page.

6) I would be inclined then to remove the top 4 links (max, linux, windows, plugins) and

just let the user scroll down the page a bit. Less confusing, a bit more work.

But as I said, I do not think this is a bad page.

Thor

The downloads webpage is rubbish.

http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/downloads/

Really need to simplify it and make it easy to use. Would be grateful

for your suggestions. Which things on that page should be removed?

Which should be emphasised? Removing things is quite important I

think, cutting down on the clutter.

Perhaps there should be separate webpages for each platform:

"downloads/mac", "downloads/linux", "downloads/win"? That might make

things more pleasant. But then there are miscellaneous things which

might not fit that subdivision. (freebsd? ;)

Thanks

Dan

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