Hi, I took the erlang-logo as an inspiration, thats where the red color scheme came from and why the logo was lowercase, to match the "e" of the logo. I agree the contrast was a bit too heavy, here is the second shot on the layout, a blueish one: http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/6808/erlywebbluedj5.png
I hope you like this one better, else I would need some examples of layouts you like to get the idea. The order of the content can of course be changed to what you suggested, I just copied the content for a first reference, also the headline is just a placeholder because the slogan is in the logo, so what you see is not what you get in the end. q:] If you wonder about the highlighted documentation link, that is the style for the active page, if you are on the frontpage, "home" will be highlighted like that. Regarding the documentation, I follow Simon´s opinion. There should be documentation from the start off, how to build a page from scratch with all necessary stuff like the installation, setting up controllers, views, templates (best way for structuring and reusing parts of a layout, e.g. header, main-content, sidebar, footer), urls configuration, syndication and what not. So beginners can start reading in the morning and have a basic app with essentials running some hours later. The magic stuff from the musician example is nice, but its not helpful to get the idea how erlyweb really works and should be used and no one would be running a website this way, at least i wont. On 7 Dez., 09:31, "Yariv Sadan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
