Agreed that the home page needs work. Actually a few weeks back I started putting together a static home page with the intent of replacing the current site with one hosted by github pages. As part of that I wanted to revisit the layout of the home page.
My thought re downloads was to replace the big Download button in the upper right hand corner with something that made better utilization of space. Rather than have one big download button have that space contain 3 little buttons labeled "Stable", "Latest", "Nightly". And I guess now "Maintenance". This thread does bring up the interesting thought about what should be prominent on the home page. I do think a live map backed by a real GeoServer is a good thing. Perhaps just less prominent makes sense. Anyways, perhaps I will try to finalize my initial home page re-organization so that I can send out a mock up for people to ingest. Just have to find the time... On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Frank Gasdorf <[email protected]>wrote: > Jody, totally agree, the landing-page got messed up. > > Its a mix up of Events, Supporter-Thanks, Commercials/Suggestions and > repeated content from e.g. download page. I don't see the benefit of having > the table of "Most recent releases" at top of it. In addition to that point > the download-page could have some indicator icons from the build-boxes > (Jenkins widgets). Having this in mind it would also be worth at the > download-page to show activity in general, maybe take from ohloh > http://www.ohloh.net/p/geoserver/widgets > > I like the idea of having a twitter feed/ blog role with headlines on the > right side, down below the browse section followed by icons of upcoming > events. > > I'm bit confused about the OSM Map in the middle as well (what is it for > and which content is served (maybe it should be the users-map ???)) > > - Frank > > > > > 2014-04-16 11:56 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Moules < > [email protected]>: > >> Hi, >> I quite like it and agree with Andrea's suggestion of having a link to >> the nightly too. >> >> However I'd suggest changing the way it is presented slightly. Currently >> all four boxes are the same size and have the same amount of text in (exact >> same number of characters!), even though the text is slightly different. >> This makes it a little harder to intuitively grab stuff. >> Instead I'd suggest a format like: >> >> [image: Inline images 1] >> >> At the very least making the download visually disparate from the release >> notes. >> >> Cheers, >> Jonathan >> >> >> On 16 April 2014 10:24, Simone Giannecchini < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Ciao Jody, >>> I disagree, I have got people complaining multiple times in the past >>> to be in troubles understanding what to download from where, for >>> stable releases but also for nightlies (especially for them). >>> >>> Having a clear indication of the available downloads on the home page >>> is much more important than a map with some OSM data (at least IMHO :) >>> ). >>> >>> Regards, >>> Simone Giannecchini >>> == >>> Meet us at GEO Business 2014! in London! Visit http://goo.gl/fES3aK >>> for more information. >>> == >>> >>> Ing. Simone Giannecchini >>> @simogeo >>> Founder/Director >>> >>> GeoSolutions S.A.S. >>> Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 >>> 55054 Massarosa (LU) >>> Italy >>> phone: +39 0584 962313 >>> fax: +39 0584 1660272 >>> mob: +39 333 8128928 >>> >>> http://www.geo-solutions.it >>> http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Jody Garnett <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > The home page seems messed up, we have lost our two column layout. >>> Really we >>> > are now just reproducing the download page and I do not see the value. >>> > >>> > The goal of this is to show the project is alive and releasing >>> software, any >>> > chance we can get the latest entry from our blog instead? >>> > >>> > Jody Garnett >>> > >>> > >>> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies >>> > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> I have put a small table at the top of the homepage to list both >>> stable >>> >> and maintenance recent releases and announcements: >>> >> http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Welcome >>> >> >>> >> Is this an improvement (to encourage older 2.4.x users to upgrade) or >>> a >>> >> regression (might tempt new users to to 2.4.x rather than 2.5.x)? >>> >> >>> >> Kind regards, >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]> >>> >> Software Engineer >>> >> CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering >>> >> Australian Resources Research Centre >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >> Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book >>> >> "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and >>> their >>> >> applications. 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