That's a very nice site too. Honestly I think the "box shot' of ActiveMQ is what really painted the mental picture for me. But I'm open to anything and everything more pro-looking than what we currently have.
I think it's mostly CSS and some reorganization of the content. Cheers, Clinton On 3/5/07, Brandon Goodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Honestly, I'm not impressed with the ActiveMQ site design enough to make a change from what we currently have. It still looks pretty drab to me. I like our sites color variation. If we want to make a dramatic change away from non-typical OSS drudgery and towards something more professional, I would use the Pentaho project as a good example http://www.pentaho.com/. I'm not advocating their color scheme, I'm just showing it as an example of an OSS project that put effort into their marketing presentation. Brandon On 3/5/07, Larry Meadors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also a type of "skate", a member of the shark family similar to a > stingray. > > http://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/nz/kinderpagina/zeebeestje/vleet.jsp > > Larry > > > On 3/4/07, Clinton Begin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Mind you, Batis is also a particularly ugly moth... > > > > http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/j/Peach%20Blossom.jpg > > > > Clinton > > > > > > On 3/4/07, Clinton Begin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Or we could run a mascot contest. Free signed copies of iIA for the > > winner to sell on ebay. ;-) > > > > > > I was actually thinking of suggesting a change to the logo and to > the > > meaning of the name. > > > > > > Batis is a genus of bird > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batis_(bird)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batis_%28bird%29> > > > > > > We could use one of those cute little buggers as our mascot/logo. > > > > > > Clinton > > > > > > > > > > > > On 3/4/07, Larry Meadors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hey, we need a box, too...maybe with that caveman from the Geico > > commercials. > > > > > > > > "iBATIS, so simple even a caveman can do it." > > > > > > > > ;-) > > > > > > > > OK, maybe not, but we could snag something from a template site > like > > > > template monster, or oswd.org (if we're feeling cheap). > > > > > > > > Larry > > > > > > > > > > > > On 3/4/07, Clinton Begin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > I just visited the ActiveMQ site ( http://activemq.apache.org/) > for the > > first > > > > > time. I was blown away by the site design. Okay okay....it's > simple. > > But > > > > > I seriously didn't recognize it as an Apache project or an OSS > project > > at > > > > > all....at first glance I thought it was commercial > > (good/bad...whatever). I > > > > > really liked the professionalism of the site design. It's just > a > > wiki, but > > > > > they have some serious CSS skills there, because even that isn't > > noticable > > > > > to novice or casual business browsers. > > > > > > > > > > Should we update the iBATIS site to look more professional? My > first > > lazy > > > > > thought is just to hijack the CSS from AMQ and change some of > the > > colours... > > > > > ;-) > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > Clinton > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
