It looks great. Some thoughts (with the caveat that Im not a designer): 1. Maybe reduce the size of the jumbotron or remove it all together - the repetition of "Apache Wicket" seems redundant since its in the header already. The 6 items that currently sit immediately below the jumbotron are great - perhaps put them first so that on most screen sizes, they appear front and center. 2. pick one Wicket logo (with color or without) and use it across the board - the header has a white/blue one, while the jumbotron has an orange version 3. I prefer the blue color in the jumbotron background rather than the blue in the header - that blue looks dull and lifeless to me. 4. I like the body layout in general 5. I still think a nav bar on the left or right that doesn't scroll out of view is a helpful thing. I found myself scrolling around a lot, and Im not a big fan of that.
Thanks again for the work! Nick On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Martijn Dashorst <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 >
