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H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Mar 2, 2023 08:13 AM UTC:

The home page still needs a lot of work to become presentable:

  • It is not clear that the photographs or program logos can be clicket to navigate somewhere; the fact that the page is full of recognizable links creates the impression that navigation should occur through those.
  • The photograph for Shatranj / Chaturanga is awful. The pieces are so small and shown at unfavorable angle that it require a microscope to notice these are not just an ordinary stounton set, and the board looks like it has disintegrated into individual squares for no obvious reason.
  • The alignment of the images is messy: the images are not of equal size, so that upper-left alignment of the smaller xiangqi images is all wrong.
  • Although there now is a photograph for the 'featured variant', it is not obvious at all what its significance is. The word 'featured' (or better:  'variant of the month') does not appear with it. There is also no link in the accompanying text (like there is for Shatranj/Chaturanga and Xiangqi/Janggi/Shogi), nor a suggestion that the image can be clicked.
  • The program logos are all of different size; again there is no suggestion that clicking those would do anything.
  • Depending on the display/window width, the four topics with an image either display as 4x1, 2x2 or 3+1. In the first two cases the program logos are tiled to approximately the sam size as one of the other images (which is OK), but in the latter case they are displayed side by side, and because that doesn't fit, displayed as rows of 6 + 2 (messy).