My two cents: The site has no "Hey! This is a JAVASCRIPT FRAMEWORK FOR DOING THIS AND THAT". It starts off with "demos" guides and api reference right off the bat, and it needs a little more "newbie" friendliness.
There are a few worse sites than those don't don't explain their purpose from the second you look at them. Answer those questions as a start: What is this? Who is it for? Why this and not that (jquery/prototype)? - maybe a short differences table What do I need to start? (you've got jsfiddle = nothing but a good browser) Where to go from here? Keep the existing links as well, but don't make them the main theme. -Eli On Sep 16, 9:46 pm, fakedarren <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone > > We've started work on a new site for MooTools, and wondered if any of you > wanted to help out. The is a lot of work to be done, requiring a variety of > skills: > > - Design > - HTML & CSS > - Wordpress customisation > - 'Classic' PHP (for the bulk of the site and the documentation / demo > runner) > - Symfony (for the Forge) > - Content contributions - tutorials, demos, documentation > > We've already sketched out some initial design ideas <http://d.pr/uxWg> and > the first stage is to flesh out the 'style > guide<https://github.com/fakedarren/mootools-website/blob/master/DESIGN%20A...>' > - covering basics, like heading styles, paragraph and link styles, code > snippet styles - so that when we move on to specific sections, anyone that > wants to help with design knows where to start. > > So how do you get involved? Well, we have a Github > repository<https://github.com/fakedarren/mootools-website>and all you need to > help out is going to be put there. 'Watch' the > repository to get notified of any issues, and you can comment with any > questions or ideas. > > Don't know git? That is fine, if you want to contribute designs only, you > can submit design ideas by email (fakedarren at mootools dot net) but you'll > need to create a (free!) account to take part in any discussions. If you > want to contribute code, you will need to use git. > > So - what is it we want you to do? > > Well, we have a list of milestones / > steps<https://github.com/fakedarren/mootools-website/issues/milestones>, > and within each step, a list of > tasks<https://github.com/fakedarren/mootools-website/issues?milestone=1>. > Each milestone should take approximately two weeks to complete. We'll log > tasks accordingly. If it's not assigned to anyone, it is still outstanding, > and any contributions are more than welcome. > > For now, we're still waiting on real basics - a basic style guide, a colour > palette, the main navigation - if you want to get involved, please do. > > A massive part of the new website is to beef up our 'learning' section - so > if you want to help with content, take a look at the Tutorials section, and > see if there is anything you can help with. > > If there is anything you feel the new website should have, please create a > new issue, and it will be discussed. > > Cheers > Darren
