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Martijn Dashorst commented on WICKET-3341:
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While I appreciate the work that went into it, I am seriously against any
carousel, and this one in particular because it doesn't make the design better,
it makes it worse. There are several reasons why I want to kill it before it
hits apache.org
- my design does not feature one. I deliberately did not add a carousel.
- my graphics are unsuited for being part of the carousel: they are fuzzy,
under-designed, have too little detail, are crude
- hence it makes the site look amateurish
- the carousel doesn't add anything to the page other than some movement
- thus I have to wait some indeterminate time or click on buttons for new
content
- the content is just bland: it is just a heading without any context or
content.
- Carousels are inherently awful for accessibility. They require javascript,
change content on a whim and don't add value for non-visual browsers.
This is not how I designed the page. I deliberately didn't design a carousel in
the pages. I did it once for an earlier concept showing sites that use Wicket,
but I didn't like it. Reading up on carousels further cemented my opinion that
they are evil and should be banned.
I want our front page to be deliberate, to have an air of maturity, to strive
to be non-buzzwordy. If we claim something I want us to back it up. Anyone can
say "We're secure by default"–we can back it up. If I see a website with just
the claim and nothing to back it up I assume it is just doing lip service and a
marketing person wrote it up because they saw it on another web site.
> New design for wicket site
> --------------------------
>
> Key: WICKET-3341
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-3341
> Project: Wicket
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: site
> Reporter: Martijn Dashorst
> Attachments: ASF.LICENSE.NOT.GRANTED--Alternative design.jpg,
> Keynote001.png, KeynoteScreenSnapz001.png, KeynoteScreenSnapz002.png,
> KeynoteScreenSnapz003.png, KeynoteScreenSnapz004.png,
> KeynoteScreenSnapz005.png, logo.wicket.ai, logo.wicket.jpg,
> wicket-flat-new-top.002.png, wicket-flat-new-top.003.png,
> wicket-flat-new-top.004.png, wicket-flat-new-top.005.png,
> wicket-flat.001.png, wicket-logo-big.png, wicket-logo.svg
>
>
> Our current site design has been with us for quite a while. It looked fresh
> in the 1980s, but now it has gone stale.
> This is a proposal for a new, fresh design of the home page and sub pages.
> The home page will feature a prominent download link, a list of feature
> descriptions, screenshots of sites powered by Wicket, official blog items and
> Buzz by our users.
> The screenshots of wicket powered websites will link to short descriptions of
> the sites under /meet/poweredby. Links to the websites will of course have
> nofollow
> Other pages will feature a menu on the right side of the page providing
> direct links to content.
> Attached are a couple of screen shots of how the site might look like.
> Screen 005 is an alternative of the home page without the list of features,
> but including the introduction to wicket article.
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