Anyone objects if I revert to the old layout until the new one is ready? Cheers Jan --
On 12 Jul 2010, at 06:55, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > Hi, > > Looking at this new design today, and I'm really not a fan. Here are > some points I want to highlight: > > - The first thing I could say is that I don't know i'm on a site > speaking about a database before reading the text. And the font chosen > (or the background color ?) doesn't help to read it. We shoud enhance > the message we want to giv. > > - The layout doesn't give me the idea to go further in website > exploration. I've a long overview without main points, Getting Started > is at the bottom, no use case in the frontpage, ... > > - Main menu doesn't reflect what a user or a developer is looking. > compare to the cassandra website for example. What I want as a user is > to know how to get started, as a developer , how to contribute... > Screenshots are not a sale point for a database. The website of an > opensource projects should give in my opinion fast entries to each > point of interest. I would like to have : > > - Download > - Getting Started > - Wiki/Documentation > - Deploy > - Contribute > - News > > - We should have a blog on the website. The posts on couch.io are > nice, but for a neutral and community point of view, I would want to > seem some news features announcement done on the opensource couchdb > project too or on the mailing list. > > - irc access: where is it ? > > Subjective point: the current graphic design looks so old. I really > would like something more modern, insisting on typography and such. > Maybe we could use some tools like http://960.gs/ to build a good site > layout. etc. Maybe we could relaunch a second graphic contest with > votes from the community ? (I don't really like the blue version too, > for reason I exposed and were ignored). > > Hope this post could help to improve the new design. > > - benoit
