For me personally, would like to still keep the architecture image [1] to show how it interacts with other systems.
This usually help people to see how Flink could fit into their existing infrastructure pieces. - Henry [1] http://flink.apache.org/img/WhatIsFlink.png On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 1:55 AM, Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote: > I think starting with Ufuk's draft, de-cluttering it is a good start. > > - Having a more prominent tag line > - Add some pictures for features back > - align the content as per Felix' suggestion > > That should give us a faster quick overview, but keep some serious content > in the starting page. > > I especially like that we have the stack figure and the recent blog posts > on the new website - that we should keep no matter what. > > > > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Kostas Tzoumas <ktzou...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> Good points raised by Stephan, Felix, and Volker. >> >> Do you think we can achieve this by iterating on the new design? One thing >> we can indeed do is de-clutter a bit. Apart from that, what high level >> points would you like to see in the frontpage? >> >> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Markl, Volker, Prof. Dr. < >> volker.ma...@tu-berlin.de> wrote: >> >> > -1 >> > >> > Dear all, >> > >> > first and foremost, thanks to Ufuk, for the new design. >> > >> > However, I agree with Felix that the current page is more of a >> > documentation than a front page. >> > >> > I wonder where would people who do not know about Flink already find what >> > it is about quickly in a concise way? >> > I believe that the landing page should give information about features >> in >> > a "declarative way" (what, not how ;-) ) >> > before going into details. >> > >> > I also believe that the current page does a better job on this than the >> > new design. To me the new design looks like >> > a perfect architecture page and intro to the documentation, but not like >> > the starting page of the project. >> > >> > Best, >> > Volker >> > >> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> > Von: ewenstep...@gmail.com [mailto:ewenstep...@gmail.com] Im Auftrag von >> > Stephan Ewen >> > Gesendet: Montag, 11. Mai 2015 22:01 >> > An: dev@flink.apache.org >> > Betreff: Re: New project website >> > >> > I agree that we should have a "more serious content, less happy hipster" >> > website. >> > >> > The current one is very nice, but I also think it has a tendency to pack >> > too much content into a small space. >> > For me (and probably other old people with less-than-sharp eyes), it may >> > help to space things out a bit... >> > >> > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Timo Walther <twal...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> > >> > > I completely agree with Robert. Less marketing, more technical >> > > information targeted to the user group. >> > > >> > > I think the diagram could be a little bit larger and the blog post >> > > smaller, so that the lines meet in the middle ;) >> > > >> > > >> > > On 11.05.2015 14:39, Robert Metzger wrote: >> > > >> > >> I think its fine when the front page looks a little bit more like a >> > >> documentation. >> > >> Flink is no fancy hipster app, our users are either sysops running it >> > >> on a cluster or developers programming against APIs. >> > >> I think the new website will convince this target audience. >> > >> >> > >> I agree with you that aligning the vertical separators might help >> > >> visual structure of the page. I think we "only" need to center the >> > >> vertical separator between the getting started and the blog/community >> > section. >> > >> The positioning of the first line is fine, in my opinion.... >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Felix Neutatz >> > >> <neut...@googlemail.com> >> > >> wrote: >> > >> >> > >> Hi Ufuk, >> > >>> >> > >>> I really like the idea of redesigning the start page. But in my >> > >>> opinion your page design looks more like a documentation webpage >> > >>> than a starting page. >> > >>> >> > >>> In my personal opinion I like the current design better, since you >> > >>> get a really quick overview with many fancy pictures. (So if you >> > >>> wanna dive in deep, you can check out things in the documentation >> > or/and wiki). >> > >>> >> > >>> Moreover I have some design issue. Can you align the structure that >> > >>> there aren't as many overlaps. Here you can see what I mean: >> > >>> http://postimg.org/image/paogu6f3h/ >> > >>> >> > >>> This is only my personal opinion, maybe I have a wrong idea about >> > >>> starting pages. >> > >>> >> > >>> Best regards, >> > >>> Felix >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> 2015-05-11 14:06 GMT+02:00 Hermann Gábor <reckone...@gmail.com>: >> > >>> >> > >>> Great! >> > >>>> It looks way better than the current site :) >> > >>>> >> > >>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 1:28 PM Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> >> > wrote: >> > >>>> >> > >>>> I think we may have to remove the term "Language Integrated >> > >>>> Queries", I >> > >>>>> think that is trademarked by Microsoft. >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> Otherwise, +1 >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Maximilian Michels >> > >>>>> <m...@apache.org> >> > >>>>> wrote: >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> +1 very nice comprehensive overhaul of the website. I'd suggest >> > >>>>> to >> > >>>>>> >> > >>>>> merge >> > >>>> >> > >>>>> this as soon as possible. We can incrementally fix the remaining >> > >>>>>> >> > >>>>> issues >> > >>> >> > >>>> and >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>>> add a twitter feed to the front page. >> > >>>>>> >> > >>>>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Ted Dunning >> > >>>>>> <ted.dunn...@gmail.com >> > >>>>>> wrote: >> > >>>>>> >> > >>>>>> If there is an active twitter entity for Flink, I recommend >> > >>>>>> framing >> > >>>>>>> >> > >>>>>> that >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>>> on >> > >>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> the home page. >> > >>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> >> > >>>>>>> >> > >>>>>> wrote: >> > >>> >> > >>>> Hey all, >> > >>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>> I reworked the project website the last couple of days and >> > >>>>>>>> would >> > >>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> like >> > >>>> >> > >>>>> to >> > >>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> share the preview: >> > >>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>> http://uce.github.io/flink-web/ >> > >>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>> I would like to get this in asap. We can push incremental >> > >>>>>>>> updates >> > >>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> at >> > >>>> >> > >>>>> any >> > >>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> time, but I think this version is a big improvement over the >> > >>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> current >> > >>>> >> > >>>>> status >> > >>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>>> quo. If I get some +1s I'll go ahead and update the website >> > >>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> today. >> > >>> >> > >>>> – Ufuk >> > >>>>>>>> >> > >>>>>>> >> > > >> > >>
