At long last, the site will launch! All our hard work here is finally paying off. This is quite exciting. But please be aware that this is not without cost. As painful as it may be initially, users may lose some privileges for a little while.
On beta sites, some privileges require less rep than ...
@EliLansey Actually, I found that participation here in the day to day SE routine exacts a huge toll and prevents me from completing some larger projects, many of which would be beneficial to at least some folks here, so I will reduce my presence here in the near future.
As you can see the new design just went live. Which means this site has been officially launched! Congratulations! Thank you for your valuable design feedback.
One thing you may notice that's different on the live site from my original design mockups is the logo change.
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@Jin I have it here as well. Never used it though.
@Jin not wishing to be a sourpuss, but there seems to be a problem with the tiling of the banner. The way Szabolcs had it, the basic tile was mirrored and that oligo-tile was then itself tiled. However in the current banners it looks like the basic tile is being tiled without having been mirrored first, which creates noticeable discontinuities at the edges.
"This is the "base cell" that can be repeated in a RЯRЯRЯRЯRЯRЯ fashion horizontally only to create a fake Penrose tiling that looks convincing enough. If you look closely enough you'll notice that some of the tiles are neither a kite nor a dart but a parallelogram---an artefact of making the pattern periodic."
I'm not sure if it's mathematically possible to have a seamlessly tiled pattern of that nature?
@Jin ah, okay. Perhaps not totally clear from Szabolcs's post, but the periodically repeatable tile is actually two copies of that one side by side, mirrored in the middle. Then the edges line up. Not sure if you can do reflection in CSS so it might be necessary to make the double-wide tile separately.
@OleksandrR. the difficult part is that the image file has to be square or rectangular.
normally with texture background, it's very easy to make it seamless. I'd just mirror clone the edges. but with intricate patterns like this, it's difficult..
I'll try to produce the mirrored tile to demonstrate what I mean. Sorry but I have very rubbish photo editing software here so this may take a little while.
@Jin The bevel in meta seems softer than that on main... I don't know if I'm expressing it clearly, but the main seems like a solid line through the top bar. Could that gradient be made a little more transparent (on main) to match meta?
I have about a dozen sites book-marked on my browser's toolbar. No matter what I try, I can't get the new icon to show up there. It does show up in the search-engine menu.
What do I need to do to replace the little blue dialog bubble?
@Rojo Well, actually this is only tangential... the real question was that how can you get CellPrint@Cell["foo[x_]:=x", "Input"] to use the syntax highlighting for the FE
@CHM What do you get when you evaluate Options[$FrontEnd, DefaultStyleDefinitions]?
I'm working on updating/improving this answer of mine on getting code via the API... It works fine, but the pasted code is all in black. It would be nice to get it in my current color scheme
hey everyone, glad to see the launch, only a couple of hours late
Hi @Szabolcs I saw! Kinda of bizarre that the initial blog post was me, as was the variant of the logo that eventually got accepted. wxffles and JM deserve kudos for the code for the logo though. I just played with it and messed around with colours.
but everyone worked so hard on this - I love your tiling for the background
we should probably do a blog post on the process of getting the logo - not the annoying lawyer issue, but the "how you can use Mathematica to explore a space of possible logos" type explanation
Welcome to the Mathematica Stack Exchange Q&A site’s blog! We are so excited to introduce the blog, to coincide with the graduation of the site itself.
We will have plenty to talk about, from behind-the-scenes explications of our most popular posts, to exposés on how to get even more out of the Mathematica software. Mathematica is an exceptionally rich environment that goes beyond pure programming. Over on the Q&A site, you will find questions (and answers) on front-end features like stylesheets, as well as interfacing with other languages, and everything in between. We also have some questions that are just plain fun! …
@R.M good point, but we can show how easy it is to use replacement rules to change graphics. When I get back home I'll dig out the notebook and work it into a draft post.
As you can see the new design just went live. Which means this site has been officially launched! Congratulations! Thank you for your valuable design feedback.
One thing you may notice that's different on the live site from my original design mockups is the logo change.
vs
The logo mark an...
I have about a dozen sites book-marked on my browser's toolbar. No matter what I try, I can't get the new icon to show up there. It does show up in the search-engine menu.
What do I need to do to replace the little blue dialog bubble?
