Plain HTML coding is simple enough for this list ( I think)...but aesthetic
design....hmm
 But a contest would the best way to get the best design  and can be
publicly asked from the graphics community ( not just the R
community)..remember Tom Sawyer and the fence :)

- I volunteer in both cases :)
Winner of Design Contest should get

 some bragging rights in a small hyperlink   (with nofollow tag -so no seo)
 on main page ,French Wine in the user conference location ,
etc etc...


On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:26 PM, <friedrich.leisch@stat.uni-muenchen.de>wrote:

> >>>>> On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:44:21 +0100,
> >>>>> Thomas Petzoldt (TP) wrote:
>
>  > Hi,
>  > you are probably right, though I must say that I like *spartanic and
>  > efficient* homepages and I don't think that the example given by the
>  > first mail is a good prototype for the R homepage. But, yes, occasional
>  > face lifting may be adequate.  Anti-aliasing is of course simple, but
>  > that's probably not the point. (And I know that there are graphics
>  > experts with a masters in psychology between us.)
>
>  > So, why not a new Homepage Graphics Competition 2009? There is still
>  > some time until useR!2009 in Rennes:
>
>  > http://www2.agrocampus-ouest.fr/math/useR-2009/
>
> Perhaps we should extend that to a competition for the complete design
> of the homepage?
>
> We often get emails like the first in this thread that R could do with
> an update on homepage design (I fully agree) ... but actually nobody
> volunteers to do it. Hence, we still have what I did when the
> worldwide number of R users was probably less than 1000.
>
> For technical reasons there are some conditions: the homepage is
> maintained via SVN like the R sources, so all should be plain HTML, no
> content management system etc.
>
> Ad frames: the main reason that I used them in the first place is to
> have the menus etc in only one file, no need for updating several
> files when a link changes. Today I would probably use iframes, but any
> other soultion is fine, too.
>
> Another plus would be if we could use the same design for CRAN, and
> that means no server-trickery like server-side includes etc (because
> we do not control the server setup of the mirrors).
>
> Best,
> Fritz
>
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