On Apr 13, 2010, at 12:21 PM, James Fisher wrote:
> Apalling internet connection atm. Try: http://i41.tinypic.com/156aeds.jpg
>
James,
Your site design has growing on me all day. Especially when I picture it with
the old Myriad logo and a toned-down cyan background color. You've inspired me
to write copy that I hope tells the CouchDB story in a way that's been lacking
on the current site, emphasizing the use cases for which CouchDB is uniquely
suited.
I'd love feedback from people, mostly about direction and tone. I'm sure we'll
do a spelling etc pass before anything goes live. Right now I'm just interested
in the big section headers, and the overall points. Are there other big
headings missing? Should one of the topics be addressed in a different way?
Cross posting to dev because I think site design and copy is one of those
things that should be discussed on both lists.
Here it is:
==
Time to Relax
Goodbye, schemas and SQL, hello JSON and Map Reduce. Apache CouchDB is a
database built for the web.
Ground Computing
CouchDB solves the data-island problem for you, so you can write offline
capable applications using a simple document model. Peer-based replication
allows for flexible deployments, data-sharing between organizations, and
no-hassle backups. Running CouchDB on the client with continuous replication to
remote servers also offers better latency and reliability than traditional
three-tier architectures. Ground computing is the future of the web.
Web Scale
CouchDB's Erlang and REST-based implementation is designed to scale from a
smartphone to a data-center, and beyond. It presents the same API whether
running on a small local instance, a multi-terabyte eventually-consistent
cluster, or an ad-hoc network of collaborators.
Reliable
CouchDB uses append-only storage, never touching any bytes already written to
disk. This means once an update is committed, it is durable -- even truncating
a CouchDB database file yields a consistent snapshot of an older version of the
database. Writes are contiguous, giving CouchDB predictable performance even
under heavily concurrent write load.
Flexible
CouchDB is queried using Map Reduce functions written in JavaScript (or your
language of choice). Map Reduce's flexibility you can start saving your data
today, and adapt your queries as your application evolves, without migrating
your data formats. CouchDB's views are optimized for (soft) real-time
workloads, rather than large batch operations. Thanks to the MVCC data model,
CouchDB's views are suitable for banking and other operations that require
consistency.
Trusted
CouchDB is deployed by the BBC, Meebo, Cloudant and Ubuntu One. It ships as a
core feature of Ubuntu Linux. There are access libraries available in nearly
every language.
==
I'd like to pepper this text with hyperlinks to blog-posts and other
documentation, case-studies, etc. We could expand the list of users in the last
section by a couple of names, if people have suggestions.
Chris
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Julian Moritz
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> James Fisher schrieb:
>>> I've no idea if I can attach PNGs here, but here goes. Find attached
>>> one proposed design. Only Inkscape atm, but I should be able to convert
>>> to HTML with little fuss. A few notes:
>>>
>>> Let me know if
>>>
>>
>> no png attached. Seems you've been interupted while writing this email?
>>
>> Regards
>> Julian
>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13 Apr 2010, at 13:54, James Fisher wrote:
>>>
>>>> Certainly will do. I'm doing some rough sketches now; might get
>>> something
>>>> up in the next couple of days.
>>>
>>> Please take a look at these designs:
>>>
>>> Homepage:
>>> http://twitpic.com/pme28/full
>>>
>>> Homepage/Downloads:
>>> http://twitpic.com/pmetj/full
>>>
>>> Homepage/Screenshots:
>>> http://twitpic.com/pmevr/full
>>>
>>> Wiki:
>>> http://twitpic.com/pmexo/full
>>>
>>> Wiki/Syntax reference:
>>> http://twitpic.com/pmf2r/full
>>>
>>> I think we all agreed at the time that this was a good way forward
>>> for the site.
>>>
>>> Search the dev mailing list for "Website redesign" and maybe get in
>>> touch with:
>>>
>>> maddiin <[email protected] <mailto:
>> [email protected]>>
>>>
>>> He was doing most of the work on this last time!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> N
>>>
>>>
>>
