Re:Please review the new tarsnap website
by cperciva on Monday September 14, 2009 @02:06AM
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I suggest turning off the full justification in the text boxes.
Maybe I've spent too long reading text typeset by TeX, but I find non-justified text to be very distracting.
Try to make the text boxes have the same margins on all four sides. With large top-bottom and small left-right margins, they look unbalanced.
Oops. Those were supposed to be the same.
...menus...
Yeah, I spent a long time trying to decide between side and top menus -- in the end I decided on the side menu in part because I have not only submenus but also subsubmenus. Things like man pages deserve to be on the website... but they don't really deserve a prominent space in the menu structure.
Finally, what is the proper capitalization?
That's a very good question. Can I dodge it by answering "sentence case", or is that likely to be too confusing to people?
I'd like to stick to referring to the client code as "tarsnap" (lower case) since the software is installed with a lower-case name and UNIX filesystems are often case-sensitive; is it possible to talk about the "Tarsnap backup service" (capitalized) but the "tarsnap software" (non-capitalized) without horribly confusing the matter?
Maybe I've spent too long reading text typeset by TeX, but I find non-justified text to be very distracting.
Try to make the text boxes have the same margins on all four sides. With large top-bottom and small left-right margins, they look unbalanced.
Oops. Those were supposed to be the same.
...menus...
Yeah, I spent a long time trying to decide between side and top menus -- in the end I decided on the side menu in part because I have not only submenus but also subsubmenus. Things like man pages deserve to be on the website... but they don't really deserve a prominent space in the menu structure.
Finally, what is the proper capitalization?
That's a very good question. Can I dodge it by answering "sentence case", or is that likely to be too confusing to people?
I'd like to stick to referring to the client code as "tarsnap" (lower case) since the software is installed with a lower-case name and UNIX filesystems are often case-sensitive; is it possible to talk about the "Tarsnap backup service" (capitalized) but the "tarsnap software" (non-capitalized) without horribly confusing the matter?