Hi all,
I just let the new version of our website go online ... please check it out:
https://plc4x.apache.org/index.html
And here a list of some things we could need a little help with:
- Make the landing page visually more appealing (Plain HTML & CSS work ideally
utilizing Bootstrap)
- Make the page display on full height (If you go to the "Apache" main page,
the footer it pretty much at the top, it would be great if it could stick to
the bottom of the screen, but be pushed down if the content requires it.
- Write Content:
- Users
- Protocols: Documentation on the connection strings and the
address formats. If the protocols have specialities, document them from a
user-perspective (Modbus: Coils are plain Boolean, Registers are short values)
- Integrations: Documentation on how to use the integration
modules
As I mentioned ... help is greatly appreciated.
Chris
Am 22.01.20, 12:05 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <[email protected]>:
Hi Dominik,
that would be super awesome ... and regarding the super UX designer ...
well I guess any option will improve the current state.
But I am sure that your UX capabilities are way better than mine ;-)
Chris
Am 22.01.20, 11:32 schrieb "Dominik Riemer" <[email protected]>:
Hi Chris,
I'd be happy to help improving the PLC4X landing page!
In case you're looking for some really fancy UX designer, I'm certainly
the wrong person, but I guess I can make one or two proposals on how to make
the homepage look more appealing.
Dominik
On 2020/01/22 09:26:15, Christofer Dutz <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just updated the content of the start-page with some example
content.
>
> I didn't want to have anyone distracted by my old crappy start page
... that is probably the worst starting page any Apache Project has :-/
>
> Chris
>
>
> Am 21.01.20, 22:23 schrieb "Christofer Dutz"
<[email protected]>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> as you might have noticed from my recent postings, we’re
currently working hard on finally building a nicer looking website.
>
> This is generally not that difficult, because a blind chimpanzee
would probably come up with a nicer looking page than what I created more than
3 years ago ;-) … but this is also a big problem. Very often I have heard that
potential users don’t really accept us as something industry-grade, because our
website sucks so badly.
>
> While I think we have reached a quite reasonable state with the
general content, we desperately need someone to help create our landing-page.
>
> Here we could be using standard HTML and CSS (Ideally with
Bootstrap, cause that’s already there and the site will be using this)
>
> What we’re looking for is something like one of these pages:
>
> https://www.industry-fusion.com/
>
> https://royale.apache.org/
>
> https://pragmaticindustries.com/
>
> So I hope you get the idea … these long scrolling down sites
with, let’s call it … low information density, but high wow-factor.
>
> If you are following this project and was always waiting for
something where you can start contributing … this is probably something we need
more than another driver implementation (Don’t get me wrong … we love new
drivers, but I would definitely also love a nice landing page)
>
> Please, please, please help us and make yourself famous :-)
>
> Chris
>
>
>
