HI Alex, all. I have played a bit over the week end with a prototype and here is what I came up with for the homepage[1]. I reworded a bit to be more clear and simple but that obviously can change. I also updated the feather to use the new one.
What do you think? PS: I don't have the right font for Apache Brooklyn. Does anyone know which one is it? Best. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxboJOOp7N8CVkppSE1QaEhkSGc/view?usp=sharing On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 at 17:08 Thomas Bouron <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. > > Massive +1 Alex. I also think we can hugely improve the website from a > UI/UX perspective. Valentin also raises a good point about the SEO which is > far from being optimised. > > I would happily help on that. > > Best. > > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 at 15:32 Alex Heneveld < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hi folks- >> >> I've been hearing two categories of feedback from people who've spent >> time on our website: "I don't get it" and "Sounds complicated". >> >> I think the time is right for us to fix this. We can give a clear, >> gentle experience, and we can tone down the academic ideas in favour of >> real examples, which thanks to recent improvements are pretty simple. >> I'm thinking of a few changes: >> >> * Expand and ground the landing page (currently it's all academic theory >> words words words) -- I attach a mock-up of how this could look in the >> attached (based on other sites) >> * Rework the Getting Started example to be something using bash, rather >> than a magic java entity >> * Instead of YAML/Java blueprints, call it "Basic Blueprints" "Advanced >> Blueprinting", make the "Basic Blueprints" section nice simpler >> reference pages, with much of the content moved into advanced (where the >> Java items might get buried further) >> >> What do other people think? Should we have a chat? Say next Fri 4pm UK ? >> >> Best >> Alex >> >> -- > > Thomas Bouron • Senior Software Engineer @ Cloudsoft Corporation • > https://cloudsoft.io/ > Github: https://github.com/tbouron > Twitter: https://twitter.com/eltibouron > -- Thomas Bouron • Senior Software Engineer @ Cloudsoft Corporation • https://cloudsoft.io/ Github: https://github.com/tbouron Twitter: https://twitter.com/eltibouron
