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Eclipse.org gets a new face (again)

If you haven’t visited www.eclipse.org recently, now would be a great time to do so.  After gathering some feedback on our recent simplistic design, I think we’ve come up with a great new homepage that balances simplicity for newcomers and information for our regular audience.

Nathan, our web designer extraordinaire, has also designed a new skin for the rest of the site, so expect to see less and less Purple as everyone migrates their pages to the new look.

Posted January 20th, 2009 by Denis Roy in category: Uncategorized
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5 Responses to “Eclipse.org gets a new face (again)”


  1. Daniel Says:

    Very…gray. I definitely liked the old site better (the revision right before this latest change). The new look isn’t aweful, but it does need work. And…color.

    Incidentally, the “Google Custom Search” text is rendering about 5 pixels offset to the left on Firefox 3.1b2. This seems to be a problem with the text field offset, since the right border of the field seems to be almost “under” the “Search” button.


  2. Doug Schaefer Says:

    I like it. Lots of info organized cleanly. Yeah, the colors are bland, but I’ll live.


  3. Ed Merks Says:

    It’s an excellent new starting point for a fresh clean modern Eclipse! Thanks Nathan for a tireless focus on improvements!!


  4. Eugene Kuleshov Says:

    I am second on the comment about using gray text. Look at the books you are reading, have you ever saw them printed in gray? The most readable text is still black on white.

    Also, please, please, please, please don’t use fixed-width layout, the current page don’t fit into my browser window anymore.


  5. Chris Says:

    But I like purple…

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