I must admit I struggle to see the point. A collection of a few snippets would be easier to make than this, and I could use them with less effort right in my code editor too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've noticed a few relatively minor issues, which can be rephrased/viewed as "why" questions:
- The introductory text ("Org mode is for keeping notes [...]") overflows, possibly because of an enforced minimum font size (and an assumption about it that doesn't always hold true in the markup) in my case.
- SVG images are embedded as objects, leading to noscript blocking them in FF, and just unnecessary spam ("Sorry, your browser does not support SVG.") in lynx. This one is more of a question, rather than just a report: why not to use the img tag (which, I think, is handled generally better) instead? Or even to leave them as texts.
- "Made with by TEC" uses a relatively uncommon glyph (the font I use doesn't have that; apparently it was assigned just last year).
> I expect "Org mode is for keeping notes [...]" to take up about three lines. What's going wrong for you?
It takes 4 lines here, but the issue is with horizontal overflow: "planning" is in the end of the first line for me, and it's cut on the last "n" (with no horizontal scroll). Below that, "developed by many others." is cut on "h" in "others". That's in FF 68, where it's also aligned to the right side, while in FF 78 it is centered. All the other elements are centered in FF 68 too.
It moves to the left and becomes readable (i.e., all words are fully visible) when I remove font settings (org.css:32) and the --body-left ones, or if "display: flex" is disabled altogether, but not sure what's the exact issue. There's "overflow-x: hidden" in the CSS, which probably contributes to it.
Edit: apparently it's similar to the issue reported by john-aj here.
That's a nice idea! If you'd be interested in coming up with a mock-up please send it through to me. My email is on my github page, which is linked in the footer of the new website :)
The original author of Org mode is an astrophysicist. The current maintainer is a Philosopher by study. I've found that the Org community seems to come from a wide range of backgrounds, and is generally quite welcoming.
I think OSS projects are a bit like Companies --- each one has its own culture, and attracts different sorts of people.
If you're interested in getting involved, please don't hesitate to introduce yourself on the mailing list :)
From my perspective, you also do a poor job of communicating with newcomers. It is not readily clear what this is and why they should be interested and the language is intimidating for an outsider/non-programmer.
If it were my website, I would remove the descriptors under your big links for Features, Install, Quickstart and Contribute. They add no real value and are just visual clutter, which is a problem when delivering information-dense content. In fact, I would remove the giant unicorn head in the very valuable above-the-fold section to make space for those four links, minus the extraneous descriptors. (Edit: By descriptors, I mean the part where you say extra stuff like "Yes. Do this." I don't mean the four one-word labels listed above.)
I would also remove "via" and "or" from your section indicating how people can provide financial support. I would either say "Support:" or "We take" or have no extra words and just post the three payment links.
Random thoughts from someone who knows absolutely nothing about this and has never before looked at your website, so take it with a grain of salt:
I wonder why you don't have a link to the Reddit sub r/orgmode.
In order to be more approachable for newbs without losing any vital info, I would reverse some of the initial info, something like this:
Keep notes, maintain to-do lists, plan projects, author documents, create computational notebooks, write literate programming and do so much more. All in a fast and effective plain text system.
An open-source extensible major mode for Emacs offering convenient plain text markup and more.
Also, if there is already some collection somewhere online of stories about people who have used this, I would link to it somewhere in this sentence:
Nearly every Org user has a story to tell about how Org enables and empowers them
If you wish to use any of the above, please feel free. If you wish to credit me to some degree for some of it, my name is Doreen Traylor and doreentraylor.com redirects to a site that is the closest thing to a business card that I have.
Eh, this seems a bit presumptuous. I'd be more inclined to suggest that the people who code this projects are usually not designers, and they attract other contributors based on the code not any visual design... so as much as it would be nice for a designer to jump in and work on a visual overhaul I'd expect it to be unfortunately uncommon.
