Hello Ankur, Glad to see your mail & appreciate your feedback.
1) I'm not trying to solve/improve any Tika stuff or trying to create a revolution with new design. That is very obvious, isn't it? I was trying to make this website more appealing & user friendly to end users. Proper design would also help a lot for SEO. Usage of things like Mix Panels would make traffic monitoring even more better than Google Analytics. We all are software engineers and are used to good/neat reference pages. Thanks to folks at Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox etc for spoiling our habits of referencing to those age old wiki pages :) It's time to move on. Tika is a wonderful project and have very brilliant brains working on it then why do we have a website which looks below average. The first impression of the project is given by its website. In my opinion, Tika website needs a makeover and I'm ready to work for it. You may want to compare Tika website with other Apache project websites. Just in case if you disagree. 2) None of the tutorials/guides will become useless. Tika website has a well defined folder structure & file names. If we could just re-write them then all links should work fine. There wont be any backward compatibility issues as well. In my opinion - every problem has a solution :) 3) I never said that twitter bootstrap is the best or latest framework but it's certainly a good starting point. With all respect to your opinion. I think - "Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations". Tika website certainly needs a makeover for good. +Swapnil On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Ankur Chauhan <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Swapnil, > > If i may raise a simple question, what are you trying to solve/improve by > the new design? I am just trying to get an idea of the reasoning behind the > new layout and what would it bring to the table as this would make all the > tutorials/guides useless which have steps guiding people to new places. > Also, we may need to setup redirects for different pages to maintain > backwards compatibility with the urls that are already out there. > > I like the twitter bootstrap framework's simplicity but at the same time I > am also a proponent of "if it ain't broken, don't fix it". > > Ankur Chauhan > [email protected] / [email protected] > > PS: design looks good, its simple but to be frank, bootstrap has been a > tad bit overused. > > On Oct 14, 2012, at 5:07 PM, Swapnil Kulkarni wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > > This is Swapnil & I recently used Apache Tika for one of my school > > projects. Although existing website was very useful, I thought I could > make > > it even better(HTML5). Web development is my hobby and I like > experimenting > > with new UI frameworks. I love to design and develop user friendly > > websites. In my free time, I have created these sample pages for Apache > > Tika website using Twitter's Bootstrap (responsive layout). > > > > Home Page: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~swapnilk/tika/index.html > > Download Page: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~swapnilk/tika/download.html > > > > Apache Tika website mostly has read-only data. If you like this > > layout/design then I'm more than happy to voluntarily re-develop & > maintain > > this website. > > > > Please let me know your thoughts. > > > > Thank you, > > +Swapnil > > > > PS: Please note that this is just a sample prototype hence it may not > have > > all data/active links. > >
