Disclaimer (especially for Phillippe): I'm not a wicket committer, so take my words for what they are: a single opinion
I'm personally not a big fan of animations, even if I agree that they improve the sex appeal of the home page the first time you see it. So I'd rather focus on well presented content and what really attract newcomers (like a clean layout and content organized by themes, the example of script.acuo.us is pretty good from this point of view IMHO), and make the animation short enough to avoid being too annoying in the long term. Another solution (if possible) would be to have an alternative home page with no animation for old thinking people like me :-) But if this requires twice the maintenance effort, this is not a solution. If it can be only a parameter to the script, it would be nice. My 2c. Xavier On Nov 30, 2007 8:05 AM, Gerolf Seitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi phillippe, > i'd say the appearance doesn't have to be like [0]. > in fact, if you come up with a simpler solution regarding the animation > (see scriptaculous for an example), > which contains information that attracts new users (eg. llinks to the > various "getting started" sections), > that would be more than welcome ;) > > what do others think? martijn? > > regards, > Gerolf > > On Nov 30, 2007 1:24 AM, Phillippe Prohoroff < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am interested in participating in "The Google Highly Open > Participation > > Contest" by working on the issue "Wicket: Create animated launch page > for > > website." I wanted to ask if I am correct in believing that the purpose > of > > this task is to create a page with the same appearance as > > http://people.apache.org/~dashorst/animation/animator.html<http://people.apache.org/%7Edashorst/animation/animator.html> > <http://people.apache.org/%7Edashorst/animation/animator.html>, > > but having the same content as http://wicket.apache.org/. Is this > > correct? Thank You.Phillippe Prohoroff > -- Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant http://xhab.blogspot.com/ http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ http://www.xoocode.org/
