On 7/12/17 4:54 PM, Andrus Adamchik wrote: >> Can we keep moving forward with the general concept? > Absolutely. I am actually meeting with the designer later today and was going > to use your prototype as the initial spec. I like the suggested structure > with a bare minimum set of top-level menus and a more detailed menu in the > footer. Most people will indeed be interested in download, docs or support.
Good. I think that's a very modern approach which I like. Use the footer for navigation, but keep some important calls to action in the header area. > On the home page I think we need to replace most of the text with a more > visual representation of what Cayenne is and why somebody would want to use > it (Modeler, DB-first flow, transparent transactions, ObjectContext, featured > extensions such as commitlog and crypto). Also we were thinking of creating a > video tutorial for 4.0. This may also go on the home page. These are good ideas. Let's talk about who the audience is. I think they are: 1. People who already know Hibernate. Or Rails or some other lesser known ORM. 2. People who don't use any ORM at all and are new to the idea. There are some other speciality audiences (like people coming from WebObjects) which I think are so small as to not be important for the front page. I think the test will be how we can create a message to cover these two really different audiences. Cayenne ORM ----------- * Make your application portable: avoid DB lock-in * Validation, control your data * Performance (hollow, paging) * Security and safety * Faster development, vastly easier refactoring * Type safety Enterprise features (this is 'not Hibernate') ------------------- * ObjectContext * DB-first * transactions * Modeler Plugins ------- * ROP * crypto * logging * etc What do you think of this structure? > Will also need to accommodate the Apache boilerplate (logos, donate button), > social and GitHub buttons. -- --------------------------> Aristedes Maniatis GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A
