+1 on Thomas's mock up, looks great. Being able to see something in action before trying it can be useful, perhaps something asciinema-like (https://asciinema.org/a/46498).
On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 at 08:21 Thomas Bouron <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 at 00:32 Alex Heneveld < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Wow - really like this! Very clean and elegant. > > > > Thanks! > > > > I think we should /show/ a little bit more what we mean by > > modeling/deploying/managing -- eg for modelling (code snippet), and a > > graphic w cloud icons for deploy, and maybe a UI screenshot for manage ? > > > > I'm not sure I agree with that. I deliberately went for less because I > believe less is more, especially on the homepage. Adding a code snippet, > screenshots abd logos will do the reverse IMO. You started this thread by > saying that Brooklyn is always considered as complicated, doing this will > reinforce this feeling IMO. > > That being said, we could add a page to have a UI tour, with a link to it > in the "Get Started" menu item? > > > > And not sure about curl-to-bash for install -- some people are > > uncomfortable with that (in any case we should curl from an apache site > > for a release, not github). > > > I used github as an example, this is not a real URL. > > > > But some one-line quick start would be > > nice. A docker image? (And can say jump to Get Started for other > > flavours of installs.) > > > > Why not for the docker image. I went for the curl command because that's > the only one that does not require the user to install anything else. If > you think about it, a quick start guide that starts by "Install docker" or > "Install vagrant AND VirtualBox" is far from a great way to start for a > first-time Brooklyn user. Now I might be wrong about this and if it is the > case, then I'm happy to change it (again, that's just a prototype) > Regarding the other flavours of install, it's specified in a link, below > the shell command ;) > > Lastly instead of the brooklyn logo font, can you just use the big logo > > PNG that is currently in use on the site? > > > I could do that but: > > 1. the quality is not as nice as pure text > 2. from an semantic/SEO point of view, it's better to use the text as > crawler will be able to read it > > Also, I don't know if you noticed but I rearranged the menu items. I was > planning to do this + update all the web dependencies i.e. bootstrap, > jquery, etc > > Best > -- > > Thomas Bouron • Senior Software Engineer @ Cloudsoft Corporation • > https://cloudsoft.io/ > Github: https://github.com/tbouron > Twitter: https://twitter.com/eltibouron >
