> > If you get away from the idea of a wiki, we (my brother and me) would > like to contribute with an erlyweb powered website for erlyweb.org. > Assumed that you help us a little bit doing it. > > What we are thinking of instead of a wiki is building a tutorials > section using ReST-documents pulled off a control versioning system, > might it be git, mercurial or svn. > > This way no accounts are needed and everyone could contribute on the > mailing list. The last word would be up to Yariv leading the way, so > it would be something official. Also spam and moderating in general > would be less time consuming.
I like the idea of using a source repository, but are you suggesting it would be the same repository as the ErlyWeb one or a different one? Putting everything in the same repository would require syncing up the documentation materials with the release versions, which could a good or bad, depending on how you look at it. > > Picking up my idea for a planetlike thing: > > Its more natural that people blog about what they did rather than > putting the content on a wiki somewhere else, so I think aggregating > rssfeeds from erlyweb-users would be great, knowing who uses erlyweb > and what people using erlyweb do besides. > > Putting it together the page could have these sections: > > - frontpage describing features and announcing latest changes > - downloads > - documentation > - planet/community-posts > > How do you think about this? Any complaints or suggestions? I'm thinking the web site maybe should also include an official blog where ErlyWeb announcements would be made and which could be consumed by RSS. As ErlyWeb matures, I probably shouldn't be blogging about it just on my personal blog. > > > > If you would like to volunteer to redesign the website, that would be > > very good too. I designed it in about 15 minutes and I think it shows > > :) > > I hope you like it: http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/6794/erlyweb2wu4.png Thanks for taking the time to create this design. I think it's a step in the right direction, but it needs some work. Visitors to the site probably are mostly interested in the documentation, downloads, and latest announcements, so those sections should be quite prominent. The documentation link especially is hard to find. I think the features list is important, especially for newcomers, but it shouldn't occupy most of the visible real estate because once you read it, it's not interesting anymore when you come back to the site. About the aesthetics -- I'm not too crazy about the red color scheme. I prefer cool colors (blue, green, grey) that are more soothing. I think the logo should be written as 'ErlyWeb,' not 'erlyweb'. I would change the 'simple, elegant, amazing' maybre to something like 'simple, elegant, powerful', but I would have to think about it more. Thanks for all the suggestions! Cheers, Yariv > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "erlyweb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/erlyweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
