I actually am working on restructuring the whole main site landing page.
I am going to integrate linked-in's hopscotch to give people a tour of the
site too, as some things are going to end up slightly hidden if we make it
a better landing page.
I want to switch to top-bar nav... But that really needs the intro to point
people to it.
Also want to integrate a feedback form so users can tell us what works and
doesn't.
A new logo will help me make the whole thing gel... So get logoing
On Tuesday, 17 December 2013, Lennart Jörelid wrote:
> Actually, I would claim that the problem is not one of whitespace, but
> rather one of usability.
>
> Readability (in regards to typography) and clarity (in terms of knowing
> where you are on the site
> and what your text context is) are difficult tasks to master in general -
> but I think that the Fluido
> skin has done wonders to increase both for maven sites. Readability
> properties, such as font size,
> leading, kerning, text flow and spacing are notoriously difficult to
> control properly in a browser.
>
> The problem is that Maven-generated sites lack some mechanics, I feel, in
> dealing with big volumes
> of content - such as the volume on the Maven main site. In particular,
> consider the case where we need
> a big menu system - Fluido and maven site works well in this regard for
> smaller sites, but lack proper
> mechanics for creating and visualizing navigation structures for big sites
> (such as maven.apache.org).
>
> The Gradle site uses a main navigation bar on top of the pages, and a
> detailed site structure closer
> to the bottom. This works well if we can distill fewer than - say - 9 main
> menu items. The maven site
> currently sports 9 (the structure of which could perhaps be improved
> somewhat) , but also shows all
> 2nd level menu items. Good for experienced users - and
> confusing/overwhelming for newer users.
>
> Fluido is an improvement - but perhaps we should organise the site after
> scenarios ("what I am trying to do")
> instead of data structures. How do you feel about reducing the top-level
> menu structure to the following :
>
> Overview
> Downloads
> Tutorial
> Documentation
> Community
>
>
>
>
> 2013/12/17 Robert Scholte <[email protected] <javascript:;>>
>
> > Even though the fluido skin looks great, it also has a lot of whitespace.
> > The current mainpage is already quite long, with fluido it'll only get
> > longer.
> > We might need to restructure the whole page. For instance, complements
> for
> > the page design of Gradle[1], I have my doubts about buildr[2]
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > [1] http://www.gradle.org/
> > [2] http://buildr.apache.org/
> >
> >
> > Op Tue, 17 Dec 2013 01:17:11 +0100 schreef Stephen Connolly <
> > [email protected] <javascript:;>>:
> >
> >
> > https://www.dropbox.com/s/w5eblhl4q0fzc6p/Screen%20Shot%
> >> 202013-12-16%20at%2022.32.03.png
> >>
> >>
> >> On 17 December 2013 00:16, Stephen Connolly
> <stephen.alan.connolly@gmail.
> >> com
> >>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>
> >> bollix gmail
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 17 December 2013 00:11, Olivier Lamy <[email protected]<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Maybe only me but I cannot see the image :-)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 17 December 2013 09:35, Stephen Connolly <
> >>>> [email protected] <javascript:;>
> >>>> > wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> > I have been playing with reworking our front page...[image: Inline
> >>>> images
> >>>> > 1]
> >>>> >
> >>>> > I think the fluido skin is a big improvement, I would like to switch
> >>>> to
> >>>> > that...
> >>>> >
> >>>> > Only problem I see is that our current logo(s) are very tied to the
> >>>> old
> >>>> > look and feel...
> >>>> >
> >>>> > So do we want to see about launching a logo competition. TomEE had
> >>>> good
> >>>> > success with theirs.
> >>>> >
> >>>> > Also I'm looking at going with the top-menu version of fluido skin
> >>>> rather
> >>>> > than the left menu... I have a solution to the "hidden" nature...
> but
> >>>> > you'll just have to wait until I sync up with Hervé to find a way to
> >>>> get it
> >>>> > pushed to staging from a branch without blowing up the production
> site
> >>>> to
> >>>> > see my trickery!
> >>>> >
> >>>> > -Stephen
> >>>> >
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Olivier Lamy
> >>>> Ecetera: http://ecetera.com.au
> >>>> http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy
> >>>>
> >>>>
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