On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 13 Apr 2010, at 12:12, James Fisher wrote: > > > Compare it, for example, with the simple design at > http://www.mongodb.org/ , > > where many newbies (like me) to document-oriented DBs will be making an > > active comparison. > > I dislike that look of that site strongly. > It's far from astounding, and it does have a very "templatey" feel. But at least it's neat and inoffensive. > > > "CouchDB is a new kind of database; it will change the > > way you work; come with me, and I will take you on a tour of its > secrets." > > To twee. > Lol, I was exaggerating for effect. My point is many people visiting the Couch site (myself, at the time, included; and presumably many experienced designers) will see document-oriented databases as very unfamiliar territory, and don't want to be barraged with terminology in the first paragraph. Examples of good gentle introductory promotional paragraphs: http://www.djangoproject.com/ http://rubyonrails.org/ http://sass-lang.com/ http://jquery.com/ ... etc. > > > I don't just want to criticize. Perhaps I can help -- I have no > experience > > with Erlang, and I'd be much better suited to PR in this case. AFAICT > the > > site is hand-written static HTML/CSS, so a redesign is not a massive > > undertaking. > > > > Opinions? > > Get involved! The entire site is in Subversion, and patches are more than > welcome. We've had some previous design ideas suggested, and I rather liked > them. Unfortunately, we've never got around to doing anything with them. > Maybe we could pick up from there, and see where it goes? > Certainly will do. I'm doing some rough sketches now; might get something up in the next couple of days.
