Jenna, it would be fun to incorporate your cartoons in both the promo
site and the wiki.
On 7/13/2010 8:34 PM, Jenna Fox wrote:
I agree wholly on the design front, and would like to contribute cartoony
doodles and simple (not Backend Web Developer simple, but Designer Simple) web
designs in vaguely _why's quirky fun style, if you guys are up for that. I'm
currently rather more focused on Hackety Hack's web stuff, but in a couple of
weeks when I get tired of drawing fruit bats and laser-breathing dinosaurs,
Maybe camping would be a fun place to doodle? :)
If I forget, poke me @Bluebie.
@Judofyr - if you want to chat, I am [email protected] on msn/jabber these
days. :)
Oh, and I don't know what the others think of this idea, but there is some talk
of HetyH having a forum in the next refresh of it's website. How would you guys
feel about being a part of that? I'm rather fond of the idea of reuniting the
old _why community in some common shared space like that, though I'd fully
understand if you guys feel it'd be a smelly situation to be a category in
another project's forum.
Maybe instead - if you guys are pro-forum - there could be a website.. perhaps
named something like 'Whyism', a special little cult of _why place for us all
to hang out and talk about all his old projects, and our new stuff too. To keep
the spirit of it all alive?
—
Jenna Fox
http://creativepony.com
On 09/07/2010, at 5:55 AM, Magnus Holm wrote:
Hey guys,
Philippe had some interesting points about the website:
1. Keep the home page simple with all content fitting within 1280 x 1024
2. Use a catchy design (need some help here)
3. Accentuate that Camping is about Ruby (maybe also include the ruby
logo somewhere)
4. Have a brief note about the connection to _why and a link to a page
explaining the history of Camping with further links to _why's other
sites
5. Encourage people to try it by capitalizing on some of Camping's strengths:
- Fast to learn - requires only basic Ruby skills
- Much simpler than Rails but more structure than Sinatra/Padrino
- Lightning fast and memory efficient allowing fast and efficient sites
- Can evolve from simple file to organized directory structure
- Can layer in more features later using persistence and choice of view engines
6. How about using some kind of an animated (auto advancing) slideshow
to highlight some of the benefits? See an example at:
http://blog.monnet-usa.com/?p=276
7. How about a page on learning with a link to the book as well as a
list of links for other tutorials or short explanations on key topics
(e.g. how to do migrations, how to use include/extend, how to use
different view engines, etc.)?
8. How about a page about plugins with some brief description of their intent?
9. I would love for us to include _why's cartoons in some of the sub pages ;-)
Now, the more I look at this list (and my own thoughts about the new
camping site) I realize that we're talking about two different things:
* A site to attract new users
* A site to inform regular users
It looks like my attempt (http://whywentcamping.judofyr.net/) tries to
target the latter, while Philippe targeted the former
(http://rubycamping.monnet-usa.com/). Both sites serves a purpose and
I believe both are equally important.
--
Here's what I propose: We split the site into two parts. We turn what
I've created into a wiki. Everyone are welcome to edit and add their
own content.
Then we take Philippe's ideas/design/site and turn it into
ruby-camping.com or whywentcamping.com or whatnot. It probably doesn't
need to be more than a single page.
What'd ya think?
// Magnus Holm
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