Hi all, I've created a first draft of the new landing page. You can find it at https://github.com/dominikriemer/plc4x-build-tools, just build it as Chris mentioned:
Change into the directory: plc4x-site-skin And there just run a “mvn clean install -P run-its” This will generate a test-website in the directory: plc4x-site-skin/target/it/plc4x-website/target/site Feedback is highly welcome, consider this as a very first draft ;-) I think it would be nice to add some dynamic content between the feature highlights, e.g., a carousel showing the different integrations and an overview of supported protocols. Dominik On 2020/01/23 12:48:32, Christofer Dutz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > >
