On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:07 AM, J Chris Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. > I'll join that. > > 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 > This is the one thing I'm not sure of here -- is "ground computing" an established term? Not sure what it means. > 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 like this. It's less patronising than my copy. The main thing I like is that it's thoroughly real-world-oriented -- no acronym without telling you why you should care. I'm guessing the small text area I'm currently working with could become inhibiting very soon. I would consider putting your five globs of text side-by-side across the width of the page -- a bit like the five sections in http://www.ubuntu.com/ (has anyone else seen the new ubuntu branding? -- blech!). The page links could possibly go up top somehow. > == > > 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 > > > I'm going to put the current stuff on github in the next hour or so. > > 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 > >>> > >>> > >> > >
