Panel: Suggestions for improving the website

[maximlt]

Hi,

I've spent quite a lot of time on the website and I wanted to suggest some potential improvements:

• [ ] Change the color of the text in the search bar. It's green right now and is difficult to read.
  
• [ ] Move the search bar to a place where it's easier to find and make it bigger
  
• [ ] Replace static images by GIFs on the index page to demonstrate the power of Panel and the kind of interactivity you can get (applies to the readme too)
  
• [ ] Headers and sub-headers should be permalink for easier referencing to specific content in a page
  
• [ ] Headers and sub-headers should appear in a table of content always available to the user to more easily browse through the content of a page
• [ ] There should be a link to a binder environment on every notebook page
• [ ] The Reference Gallery should be above the Gallery in the table of content (I use it a lot more)
• [ ] The Reference Gallery should have a table of content at the top to quickly find a widget/layout/pane (it's pretty hard now, specially for the widgets, I usually search through the page)
• [ ] The first line describing a widget/layout/pane in the reference gallery should be highlighted in its own box. It's the most important piece of information of the page.
  
• [ ] The API reference manual isn't very useful as of now, clicking on a subpackage removes completely the API table of content which is then difficult to explore
  
• [ ] It doesn't look very good when set to a small size (same as on mobile if I'm not mistaken)
  

These are just suggestions that I believe would make the website look better and easier to use. Feel free to make some more suggestions that I would then add to this list.

[maximlt]

As for the first item, I believe the font color in the search bar is set in the sphing_holoviz_theme. It could just be set to black.
https://github.com/pyviz-dev/sphinx_holoviz_theme/blob/b822647c6770d7c4d8231efb193edf2988342c82/sphinx_holoviz_theme/static/css/main.css_t#L2136

[maximlt]

The Dask documentation (the examples exactly) has a binder environment and each page suggests to run the associated notebook in JupyterLab, it works pretty well.

See that repo for more info: https://github.com/dask/dask-examples

[philippjfr]

I'd like to switch to the new theme used by Bokeh, which was designed with mobile viewing in mind. Adding a binder link to each page would also be nice.

[MarcSkovMadsen]

Will you keep the green color @philippjfr on the app bar and as the Panel color?

I actually like the green color. But maybe I would like it to be the very nice material green color #4CAF50. :-)

[maximlt]

Switching to the Bokeh theme would resolve many of my initial suggestions :)