Glad to see they are now supporting Scala 2.8 but...
what happened to their website? I seem to recall a vastly different appearance before. If the look of the Lift website is an indicator to first time visitors of the quality of the framework, I wonder how many visitors don't get beyond the initial landing page.
Here's what I noticed immediately in about a minute:
-Not a lot of contrast for colors to help material stand out
-Lack of contrast leads to difficult reading on tired eyes and I'm only 30 something
-Page balance - Small main content area compared to long running side panel
-The quote box just looks ... meh
-No favicon
-The icons of the groups/companies using the framekwork appear to have a lot of artifacts in them
I really like Scala but this site redesign is probably not helping win new users to the framework.
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Glad to see they are now supporting Scala 2.8 but...
what happened to their website? I seem to recall a vastly different appearance before. If the look of the Lift website is an indicator to first time visitors of the quality of the framework, I wonder how many visitors don't get beyond the initial landing page.
Here's what I noticed immediately in about a minute: -Not a lot of contrast for colors to help material stand out -Lack of contrast leads to difficult reading on tired eyes and I'm only 30 something -Page balance - Small main content area compared to long running side panel -The quote box just looks ... meh -No favicon -The icons of the groups/companies using the framekwork appear to have a lot of artifacts in them
I really like Scala but this site redesign is probably not helping win new users to the framework.
I immediately noticed that too. Their old design was very nice and it fit with the general theme of "Lift". This new one is just plain ugly.
I've never heard of Lift before. I had no idea what it was while reading their page. Only here I've learned that it's a Scala framework ...
Even the download tgz and zip archives are not available right now.
http://github.com/lift/lift_21_sbt