Thanks to you and Paul for your suggestions.

We are considering to modernize the web page with low priority (lower
than releasing FLTK 1.4.0, obviously).

On 3/23/24 06:22 supsm17 wrote:

I think it's just mainly the color palette that is making the webpage
feel "outdated" or "vintage" due to the heavy use of bright, vivid
colors.
Here is a quick attempt at "modernizing" some of the colors in about 5
mins:
[image removed]

Honestly, I also don't like the existing colors, and I'm aware that
changing the colors would "only" be changing one CSS file (maybe, mostly
...). However, there are also a few small images to display borders (or
"rounded corners") which is a leftover from the 2000's where this was
used instead of today's CSS options (at that time it was likely "state
of the art").

However, we'd have to discuss color changes (at least internally) and
make a decision for the new look.

Otherwise, the navigation and layout seems pretty reasonable for the
most part, and maybe a "Pinned Articles" could be added above "Recent
Articles".

Actually the first articles below the title "Recent Articles" *are*
pinned articles (see the small pins). What we could do is to make an
extra title, i.e. move the "Recent Articles" title below the pinned
articles and add the new "Pinned Articles" title where the old title
was. That should be easy.

This would also solve the issue Paul mentioned: "titles that use the
word "recent" that have links to articles dated 2021, 2019 is
off-putting for folks browsing and evaluating".

I'll look into it while I'm working on the web server anyway for
different reasons.

I'm just not sure we should be spending too much effort on a complete
redesign when these color changes alone fix 90% of the issues.

Good point.

Let's see what I can do quickly as a first step...

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