On Apr 14, 2010, at 12:17 PM, Joe Williams wrote: > > Fair enough but even then our first impression may be our last. I would say > our website should send the right message, whatever that might be. In my mind > it is that Couch is a robust, durable datastore for real people and > enterprises. At the end of the day Couch can be an "enterprise solution", it > is for the BBC, as well as something your grandma uses to store recipes. > > -Joe >
I've said this before, so I don't want to be broken record, but I'm strongly in favor of a more boring heading font (like Myriad or even Helvetica if we're sticking with web fonts) I like the rest of the playfulness. Chris > > > On 4/14/10 12:03 PM, Noah Slater wrote: >> On 14 Apr 2010, at 19:59, Joe Williams wrote: >> >> >>> First, thanks for taking the time to work on a new site. Overall I think >>> the new design is pretty slick. I am not even remotely a designer so I >>> don't have solutions to my critiques but here are the couple of things that >>> popped in my head. First are the fonts, my initial thought was "Is that >>> Comic Sans?!". :) My second thought (possibly related to the first) was it >>> looks a little toy-ish. My thought is that the CouchDB site should >>> represent the roubust, durable datastore that Couch is. >>> >> Disagree. Playful is en vogue. >> >> We're not marketing an "enterprise solution" we're marketing a database for >> real people. >> > > -- > Name: Joseph A. Williams > Email: [email protected] > Blog: http://www.joeandmotorboat.com/ >
