[Bioperl-l] a Main Page proposal

Fri Sep 25 12:38:40 EDT 2009

I figured you really wanted the 'hundreds-o-cites' effect-- I'm just thinking of 
this
as a workaround until the issues are resolved. Not sure I can devote too much
time to playing with it now (procrastinating using other projects at the mo') 
but
I can put it in the todo list on the Documentation Project page....
cheers MAJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Stajich" <jason at bioperl.org>
To: "Mark A. Jensen" <maj at fortinbras.us>
Cc: "Chris Fields" <cjfields at illinois.edu>; "BioPerl List" 
<bioperl-l at lists.open-bio.org>; "Peter" <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] a Main Page proposal


> thanks - yeah I had separated it by year to make it easier to update  them 
> since the main file was too large, but I liked having them all  pulled in onto 
> one page in order to see the total number of cites.  Brian's graphic is nice 
> but a little out of date, and only reflects a  pubmed query.
>
> Basically that system doesn't work well enough with biblio since it  isn't 
> caching the lookups very well.   We can probably do better  somehow, but 
> someone would have to really be dedicated to it, so I can  kind of see now why 
> we could use something like this to generate the  citations so they'd be 
> static.
> http://sumsearch.uthscsa.edu/cite/
>
> I had used Biblio extension as it was so easy but maybe it just can't  scale 
> for that number of needed refs as it doesn't do very good local  caching 
> AFAIK.
>
> -jason
> On Sep 25, 2009, at 6:30 AM, Mark A. Jensen wrote:
>
>> It's ugly, but it works now.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Fields" <cjfields at illinois.edu
>> >
>> To: "Peter" <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk>
>> Cc: "BioPerl List" <bioperl-l at lists.open-bio.org>; "Mark A. Jensen" 
>> <maj at fortinbras.us
>> >
>> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 9:05 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Bioperl-l] a Main Page proposal
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 21, 2009, at 7:28 AM, Peter wrote:
>>>
>>>> Peter wrote:
>>>>>> We had some similar discussions about the Biopython wiki
>>>>>> based homepage - although our old one was nowhere near
>>>>>> as busy as the current BioPerl main page, it was still not as
>>>>>> welcoming as our current version *tries* to be.
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> I can dig out links to our mailing list archive if anyone is
>>>>>> interested in the discussion.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Mark A. Jensen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd appreciate those links, Peter- thanks
>>>>> MAJ
>>>>
>>>> OK, here you are - this was most of it, I'd have to dig though
>>>> my old emails to see what else I can find:
>>>> http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-dev/2009-April/005867.html
>>>>
>>>> Remember Biopython went from a very minimal home page, to
>>>> something aiming to be more newcomer friendly. BioPerl on the
>>>> other hand seems to want to move away from the current very
>>>> text heavy information rich page to something more focused and
>>>> newcomer friendly. To me at least the current page is too dense,
>>>> intimidating, and the important bits get lost in all the content.
>>>>
>>>> [My apologies if any of this feedback come accross too blunt.]
>>>
>>> Not at all; I'm thinking the same thing.
>>>
>>>> If you haven't already looked at them, you should checkout the
>>>> other OBF project pages for ideas. The BioJava homepage is
>>>> also using the wiki - in my opinion it is a bit cluttered, but is
>>>> still more accessible than the current BioPerl page. Also,
>>>> the BioRuby page is very nice - although not wiki based.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Peter
>>>
>>> I think the Biopython layout is very nice and focused.  Maybe a  bit  too 
>>> minimal, but then again I don't like scrolling up and down  the  page to 
>>> find the relevant bits, so less may be better.
>>>
>>> Reminds me of the simplifed design on the perl6 main page (just  don't 
>>> stare at the hallucinogenic butterfly too long):
>>>
>>> http://www.perl6.org/
>>>
>>> So, maybe a structured layout with the most important links, and 
>>> additional links on a separate page.
>>>
>>> chris
>>>
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