Eric, Yeah, I like how the major simplification of the first page makes it looks a lot more appealing. Nice work on this initial proposal!
Some things I would change: - only mention the latest 4.3.0 release on the home page in the download box -- I'd also try and see if we can come up with a little javascript that offers the correct download link for the current platform, so people can get their hands on the software as easily as possible (similar to what e.g. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html does) - when the new logo is done, we might have to tinker a bit with the color scheme or add some drop shadow/rounded corners/some other eye candy/... - I would move the news section down, to the same level of the twitter feed but on the left -- afterwards we could add an events or JIRA feed in the middle as well - with the news section moved down, we can probably add some extra spacing in the summary description, making things a bit more readable -- I suspect we might want to rewrite that description a bit when we start gearing up for our next releases (considering what we discussed in the 'future' thread) - how about giving the drop-down menu's a slightly different color/hue to make them stand out a bit more from the main navigation menu? Also, the menu items in those drop-downs would look better if there was a bit more space between them (I think) Also, I really like the twiiter feed on the bottom of the page, but we might want to keep an eye on this thread on the incubator list (http://old.nabble.com/Twitter-widget-on-Apache-project-website.-ts30053485.html) because there appear to be a few 'issues' with using the default widgets on apache.org websites. We can always make up our own equivalent (most JavaScript toolkits have some kind of support for RSS anyway) or look at Wookie for this. Thanks for all your hard work on this, Gert Vanthienen ------------------------ Web: http://fusesource.com Blog: http://gertvanthienen.blogspot.com/ On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Eric Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > I've got the beginings of a scalate Web site set up at > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/servicemix/sandbox/website20. > > Right now it is mostly just a home page. Is this a generally good direction? > Ideas? > > > > -- > Principle Technical Writer > > Phone (781) 280-4174 > Skype finnmccumial > E-Mail [email protected] > Blog http://documentingit.blogspot.com/ >
