Well, the website has some flaws in my view: - Hover images on buttons have images that seem stretched + don't tile into the background - Lots of unattractive plain white space - Could use some more eye-catchingness right off the bat, some kind of hook (different screenshot would be a good start) - Would be nice if flyspray, wiki themed into the main site at least a bit more - strange dropshadow on the logo -- doesn't match the lighting direction of the rest of the site, and is the only "hovering" thing which is strange
Anyway, the base site isn't terrible -- but it is extremely plain. It's the bare minimum you could do while still have it look decent and have all the information. And I think it's not a great representation of what Awesome truly is all about. Awesome is everything. Awesome has menus, bars, games, image manipulation, and tonnes of widgets. When someone goes to the site, they should be wowed by how much you can do with Awesome's tremendous configurability and power. It should say, this is the true hacker's system that will make their imagination take off and their entire digital world integrate. Some ideas for the new site: - Feature list that has pretty images showing the abilities of Awesome - Front page could have a list of "official" (recent) / (most popular) community (mods) / (widgets) in a sidebar - Above could integrate with a proper mods/widgets repository, something like the Firefox plugins page or rubyforge or something. (This would include an image of whatever it is, a description, perhaps a wiki link, installation instructions, popularity rating...) - The design would use flat colours in nice arrangements (djangoproject.com does this well for example) -- we don't want gradients, or glossy buttons - The downloads page link should be more outstanding -- one trick of good software website design is having a large, easy to find download button so people can rush out and get the software as soon as they want it. - Again, the general air, the message, the mood, the theme should hit you right in the face: great flexibility and power made easy I'm sure there are many more ideas to be had. I recommend we continue the brainstorm that I started above, and people implementing the site can pick the ideas they like. -AT -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
