Re: Site design...wow

2007-03-06 Thread Ted Husted
On 3/5/07, Brandon Goodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure i'm not addressing something. But, this is a quick brain dump. What is cool is that I think we have most of these things in the bag. The only area I see room for improvement is to adjust to site to provide clear paths for the different

Re: Site design...wow

2007-03-06 Thread Clinton Begin
Not to nag, but are we ever going to move the Confluence space to cwiki.apache.org? What would be the benefit to us and our users? I'm happy with Confluence and the service from Atlassian. The last time we hosted our wiki with ASF infra, we lost almost all of our links and I think even some

Re: Site design...wow

2007-03-06 Thread Ted Husted
On 3/6/07, Clinton Begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be the benefit to us and our users? I'm happy with Confluence and the service from Atlassian. The last time we hosted our wiki with ASF infra, we lost almost all of our links and I think even some of our content was lost. It was

Re: Site design...wow

2007-03-06 Thread Ted Husted
On 3/6/07, Ted Husted [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking of submitting a JSR to request that people stop using domain names for namespaces in Java...it's stupid. If our namespace was just ibatis we wouldn't be having this conversation. ;-) Totally agree. It's like Java geeks look for

Re: Site design...wow

2007-03-05 Thread Gilles Bayon
+1 for logo context The site design can be redo à la ActiveMQ, once a new logo is chosen. On 3/5/07, Clinton Begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or we could run a mascot contest. Free signed copies of iIA for the winner to sell on ebay. ;-) I was actually thinking of suggesting a change to the

Re: Site design...wow

2007-03-05 Thread Ted Husted
While we are at it, would we like to consider migrating to the ASF site? -Ted. On 3/4/07, Clinton Begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I just visited the ActiveMQ site (http://activemq.apache.org/) for the first time. I was blown away by the site design. Okay okayit's simple. But I

Re: Site design...wow

2007-03-05 Thread Larry Meadors
Also a type of skate, a member of the shark family similar to a stingray. http://www.rijkswaterstaat.nl/nz/kinderpagina/zeebeestje/vleet.jsp Larry On 3/4/07, Clinton Begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mind you, Batis is also a particularly ugly moth...

Re: Site design...wow

2007-03-05 Thread Brandon Goodin
Honestly, I'm not impressed with the ActiveMQ site design enough to make a change from what we currently have. It still looks pretty drab to me. I like our sites color variation. If we want to make a dramatic change away from non-typical OSS drudgery and towards something more professional, I

Re: Site design...wow

2007-03-05 Thread Clinton Begin
That's a very nice site too. Honestly I think the box shot' of ActiveMQ is what really painted the mental picture for me. But I'm open to anything and everything more pro-looking than what we currently have. I think it's mostly CSS and some reorganization of the content. Cheers, Clinton On

Re: Site design...wow

2007-03-05 Thread Woody, Globo.com
Hi, I liked. But I think it is too heavy, too many elements ... What about the same image with less lines (like a draft)? Woody - Original Message - From: Joakim Erdfelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dev@ibatis.apache.org Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 3:28 PM Subject: Re: Site design...wow

Re: Site design...wow

2007-03-05 Thread Ted Husted
On 3/5/07, Brandon Goodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should we launch a discussion on who the site for? Developers, CTOs, Managers, etc? How do we feel these different groups would perceive iBATIS if they visited for the first time? Brandon From an ASF perspective, the site should be designed

Re: Site design...wow

2007-03-05 Thread Brandon Goodin
I agree Ted. I think I would expand upon what you are saying by defining the different stages by which someone becomes involved in the community. It would seem to me that we would want to serve each of these stages. Experimental User: When someone first approaches a project they need to feel

Re: Site design...wow

2007-03-05 Thread Clinton Begin
)? Woody - Original Message - From: Joakim Erdfelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dev@ibatis.apache.org Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 3:28 PM Subject: Re: Site design...wow I liked it too. So I ran with it ... http://joakim.erdfelt.com/ibatis-logo-experiment-bird/ Comments

Re: Site design...wow

2007-03-05 Thread Clinton Begin
Dude has mad graphics skills. ;-) I like them. I agree about the element heaviness. Perhaps an outline, almost like a pencil trace. Something that prints easily and shows up clearly in both black and white (negative transparency?). Clinton On 3/5/07, Joakim Erdfelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Site design...wow

2007-03-04 Thread Clinton Begin
Hi all, I just visited the ActiveMQ site (http://activemq.apache.org/) for the first time. I was blown away by the site design. Okay okayit's simple. But I seriously didn't recognize it as an Apache project or an OSS project at allat first glance I thought it was commercial

Re: Site design...wow

2007-03-04 Thread Larry Meadors
Hey, we need a box, too...maybe with that caveman from the Geico commercials. iBATIS, so simple even a caveman can do it. ;-) OK, maybe not, but we could snag something from a template site like template monster, or oswd.org (if we're feeling cheap). Larry On 3/4/07, Clinton Begin [EMAIL

Re: Site design...wow

2007-03-04 Thread Clinton Begin
Or we could run a mascot contest. Free signed copies of iIA for the winner to sell on ebay. ;-) I was actually thinking of suggesting a change to the logo and to the meaning of the name. Batis is a genus of bird http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batis_(bird) We could use one of those cute little

Re: Site design...wow

2007-03-04 Thread Clinton Begin
Here's one of my favourite ones: http://www.oiseaux.net/oiseaux/passeriformes/images/pririt.molitor.jode.1g.jpg Clinton On 3/4/07, Clinton Begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or we could run a mascot contest. Free signed copies of iIA for the winner to sell on ebay. ;-) I was actually thinking

Re: Site design...wow

2007-03-04 Thread Clinton Begin
Mind you, Batis is also a particularly ugly moth... http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/j/Peach%20Blossom.jpg Clinton On 3/4/07, Clinton Begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or we could run a mascot contest. Free signed copies of iIA for the winner to sell on ebay. ;-) I was actually thinking