astropy/astropy-website — pull request #2 by astrofrog (2012-04-16 19:59:45+00:00)
Title: Updated design

Here is an improvement (in my opinion to the website). Preview: http://astrofrog.github.com/astropy-website

One thing that didn't look good before was that some pages were quite empty, and it was probably going to stay that way to avoid duplicating too much from the docs (e.g. contributing, documentation). Also, there were too many pages. This ain't the 90s... Therefore, I simplified some of the content and moved it all to the front page. I thought it looked a bit too serious before (e.g. bullet point table of contents...). So now, on the front page, you have all the information you need, which is better in itself, but incidentally means that the issue of the logo in the menubar isn't so much of a big deal because the other pages are still there are not meant for everyone, so it doesn't really matter if they are not quite as pretty. By the way, we can put the logo in the docs, so that's another matter.

Incidentally, I put back the fork me banner, and used an orange one instead, and made it go to the top of the page rather than to the bottom of the top navigation bar. I like it, but I'd be interested to hear what people think! I think it's ok to have it on the front page - in my opinion it makes it look more modern, trendy, and shows that we're open (it's not a closed effort). It's definitely not going to turn people *away*.

(cc @iguananaut, @taldcroft, @kbarbary, @eteq who were very helpful with the first iteration)