Wow, long thread already. +1 for using Bootstrap for the site. I've used some others in the past, but Bootstrap is by far the easiest to get up and moving quickly. I would change the default colors, drop or modify the default navigation bar and use some of the more stylized components sparingly. In the jdf site we pretty used Bootstrap for the grid system and some of the components. It has worked out quite well.
The basic landing page, according to most of the research done by others, should include some sort of eye catching element at the top, a large graphic, a video, etc. A CTA (call to action), in our case probably a download or basic tutorial. Information about the project in two or three short columns, and lastly all of the standard contact, about, etc stuff at the bottom. We'll also want to do something with a responsive web framework (again another reason for bootstrap). If we ignore mobile devices it becomes difficult to retrofit the site for their use later on. On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Mehdi Heidarzadeh <[email protected]>wrote: > >>probably needs some colors --> > >>http://people.apache.org/~rmannibucau/graphic/ds.png > > +1 > nice logo > > > -- > Mehdi Heidarzadeh Ardalani > Independent JEE Consultant, Architect and Developer. > http://www.TheBigJavaBlog.com > -- Jason Porter http://lightguard-jp.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/lightguardjp Software Engineer Open Source Advocate Author of Seam Catch - Next Generation Java Exception Handling PGP key id: 926CCFF5 PGP key available at: keyserver.net, pgp.mit.edu
