Re: Feedback on prototype reorganized Zsh website

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 9:28 PM Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There's still a lot of work to do, but before I put in that effort, I'd
> like some feedback on the new organization and look.
>
> https://zsh.clintonbunch.name/

Looking at this in Firefox on a MacBook, for now ... my overall
impression is good, so thank you for the effort, and pardon that the
rest of this is mainly criticism.

I personally find the photorealistic wizard to look out of place,
perhaps in part because the background color doesn't match the page
background in "Light" mode, so you can see the rectangular edges.
It's better in dark mode where the background disappears, but it still
doesn't "feel" the same as the rest of the appearance, and the black
robes tend to fade into the background.  Something more like a pencil
sketch might work, although I'm not sure how to make that visible in
dark mode.

The serif font in the "Welcome to Z Shell" banner also looks off.  Are
you trying to stick to "web friendly" fonts?  If not, "Arial Rounded
MT Bold Regular"
(https://online-fonts.com/fonts/arial-rounded-mt-bold) is the closest
match I found to the custom font used in the logo graphic.  Try using
that (maybe also increase size from 3rem to 4rem), assuming not
license restricted.

Overall the layout is clean and appealing.  Navigation is fine.  Nit:
The news items from 2021 about the DNS issue and chat move are already
on the "Older News" page and should be removed from the front page.

I do not see the excess white background Jun T. reported around the
zsh logo in dark mode.

You mentioned that you have not yet done small screen styling, but as
a note, on Android/Chrome, the front page and Documention page banners
are much larger (and wrapped) than the banner on the Development page.