For those that are paying attention to the commits list and/or JIRA (WICKET-3341), you've probably seen several attempts at developing a new web site design for the Wicket main site. Previous attempts all stalled because of a desire to make things too complicated and difficult to maintain/develop.
I therefore crafted a more minimalist design, inspired by the flat design movement. I received 2 positive reactions already, which enticed me to craft a HTML mockup of our homepage in this new design. You can see it in action here: http://people.apache.org/~dashorst/wicket-flat/ Feedback is welcome. Please take the following in consideration: - I'm looking for design guidance, IE issues can be tackled when we actually want to use this design - this is still a work in progress - I haven't had the time to create the minimal set of fonts necessary - the idea is to create a minimal, minimum maintenance, modern design, paired with captivating copy to attract new users (or at least not turn them away). I'd like to propose this as our new site design and move quickly forward into implementing this in our template setup. This design is pretty easy to implement, as evidenced by the small css I've needed thus far. Martijn On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Martin Grigorov (JIRA) <[email protected]>wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-3341?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13649648#comment-13649648] > > Martin Grigorov commented on WICKET-3341: > ----------------------------------------- > > I like the new one too! > > > New design for wicket site > > -------------------------- > > > > Key: WICKET-3341 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WICKET-3341 > > Project: Wicket > > Issue Type: Improvement > > Components: site > > Reporter: Martijn Dashorst > > Attachments: ASF.LICENSE.NOT.GRANTED--Alternative design.jpg, > KeynoteScreenSnapz001.png, KeynoteScreenSnapz002.png, > KeynoteScreenSnapz003.png, KeynoteScreenSnapz004.png, > KeynoteScreenSnapz005.png, wicket-flat.001.png > > > > > > Our current site design has been with us for quite a while. It looked > fresh in the 1980s, but now it has gone stale. > > This is a proposal for a new, fresh design of the home page and sub > pages. > > The home page will feature a prominent download link, a list of feature > descriptions, screenshots of sites powered by Wicket, official blog items > and Buzz by our users. > > The screenshots of wicket powered websites will link to short > descriptions of the sites under /meet/poweredby. Links to the websites will > of course have nofollow > > Other pages will feature a menu on the right side of the page providing > direct links to content. > > Attached are a couple of screen shots of how the site might look like. > > Screen 005 is an alternative of the home page without the list of > features, but including the introduction to wicket article. > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA > administrators > For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira > -- Become a Wicket expert, learn from the best: http://wicketinaction.com
