On 10/18/06, David Geary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I plan to work on the home page, but I won't get much done until I get off the road for awhile, which will be in a couple of weeks.
<snip/> Great, you'll probably find a short description blurb (not more than 2-3 sentences--I'll try to take in the feedback from this thread) once I'm done with the items (below). Please feel free to delete/improve/adjust it as you see fit when you get a chance. Thanks, -Rahul
If not working on it, I've been thinking about the homepage lately, and it strikes me that I don't really know how to spin Shale. We have so many unrelated features that it's difficult to say "Shale is...". The addition of JPA makes things even murkier. Are we one-stop shopping for JSF? Proving ground for JSF 2.0? I know we're a set of services, but that's a rather bland description. david 2006/10/18, Craig McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 10/18/06, Rahul Akolkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 9/25/06, Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Someone on IRC brought up a good point about the Shale home page: We > > > don't say what Shale *is* until 1/3 of the way down the page. > > > > > > I think the information in the paragraph that starts "Thus, Shale > > > is..." belongs up at the top of the page. > > > > > > Thoughts? Volunteers to fix it? :) > > > > > <snip/> > > > > We really need to do this. I plan to make some changes as time permits > > (probably next week): > > > > * Remove logo bit from home page > > * Move the historical out to its own page > > * Try to add features-* pages content to the site sections of their > > own modules (for example, the description in the dialog module site - > > thanks Craig - is much more accurate and upto date that the > > corresponding features page) > > * Point to module sites rather than features-* where feasible > > * Move download and documentation (which is really Javadocs) sections > > to their own pages > > * The mailing lists and issue tracking blurbs on home page can go > > IMO, redundant given the LHS menu contains the links (need to add ML > > link) > > > Thanks Rahul ... +1 on all of these. > > One additional note on the "features" sections. With the way things are > now > spread out into submodules, I think we'll be able to completely get rid of > these by the time we're done, because the information will have been > distributed onto the submodule pages already. But, we'll also want to > make > sure that the submodule list is up to date in every website (IIRC it is > manually maintained via cut-n-paste) to reflect the new additions. > > As for me, I'm planning on finishing up the main page for shale-dialog, > and > adding the rest of the stuff from features-dialog to the > shale-dialog-basic > page, in the next couple of days. > > And then some new content, hopefully soon. > > > > -Rahul > > > Craig > > > > -- > > > Wendy > > > > > > >
