Hi,

With our first release almost out of the door (thanks Atgeirr!), I think that 
there finally is time to deal with some meta issues. One of these is the 
website: The website is the first impression a potential user gets of the 
project, so I think that it should be rather good. IMO its currently doing 
quite well in some respects:

- The principle design and layout is simple, nice and functional
- The main content (what OPM is, links to the mailing list, screenshot 
gallery) is already on the site

Having said this, there are a few weaknesses IMO:

- Currently there's no 'download' link (that's what most people look for at 
first glance)
- The tutorials and the wiki are still not linked (although at least the 
tutorial part will be hopefully changed before the release)
- The news section tends to be a bit stale
- There is no real logo for the project as a whole and for the individual 
modules
- Each module should probably get an individual page which describes it
- The bugtrackers are too hard to find. also, there should be an explaination 
that each module uses its own issuetracker.

Some items (e.g. a more active news section) just require a bit of additional 
awareness of the developers, for others (e.g. bugtracker links, logos)  I'm 
not really sure what to do about. Are there any plans or options? Especially: 
do we need a "real" logo and if so, how can we get it?

cheers
  Andreas

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Andreas Lauser
Department of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems
University of Stuttgart
Pfaffenwaldring 61
D-70569 Stuttgart
Phone: (+49) 711 685-64719
Fax: (+49) 711 685-60430
www.hydrosys.uni-stuttgart.de

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