Re: [vote] Make Rising Wicket the homepage for wicket

2008-01-07 Thread David Shepherdson
On 6 Jan 2008, at 5.37 pm, Al Maw wrote: Additionally, the download button has the versions and dates embedded graphically which will complicate the release process unless we can somehow automate producing them. Can't we just use text instead? On that point: if the date is going to be

Re: [vote] Make Rising Wicket the homepage for wicket

2008-01-06 Thread C.
[ ] Yes, make Rising Wicket the front page of our Apache Wicket site [ ] Not yet, change and then make it the front page [x] No. This will make a great landing page for those wanting to download/get started using wicket, but needs content/navigation changes/improvements to be a home

Re: [vote] Make Rising Wicket the homepage for wicket

2008-01-06 Thread Al Maw
It's very pretty and Web 2.0-ish. Nice work from that point of view. However, it's not awfully functional. I hate to criticise something that's obviously had such a lot of effort put into it, but even though it's very shiny at the moment it feels too much like a splash screen, and those are

Re: [vote] Make Rising Wicket the homepage for wicket

2008-01-06 Thread Al Maw
I've just re-read my post, and it seems rather more discouraging than I meant it to. I should have explicitly pointed out that I really like the graphic itself and the whole concept. It's just the nav that needs a bit more work. I think there's probably room for a bit more content and things.

Re: [vote] Make Rising Wicket the homepage for wicket

2008-01-05 Thread Frank Bille
On Jan 5, 2008 5:46 PM, Martijn Dashorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [x] Yes, make Rising Wicket the front page of our Apache Wicket site [ ] Not yet, change and then make it the front page [ ] No It looks really good. The only (small) issue I have is the menu at the top. Not that it's

[vote] Make Rising Wicket the homepage for wicket

2008-01-05 Thread Martijn Dashorst
Walker P has created a very nice web page for Wicket with a rising Wicket logo as the sun that shines light in the darkness of the night. [1] We should consider whether or not we make this the default page for the Apache Wicket site. If you have some reservations, please let it be heard. We can

Re: [vote] Make Rising Wicket the homepage for wicket

2008-01-05 Thread Eelco Hillenius
On Jan 6, 2008 12:15 AM, Igor Vaynberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we shold have a checkbox that sets a go-directly-to-old-website cookie. no way i want to see this twice. also when the animation plays there is no vertical scrollbar in the browser window, but when all the text shows up there is