On Jul 11, 2010, at 1:54 PM, Avi Flax wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 16:47, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There's an awful lot going on there. I understand that it is making a point, >> but I think that amount of visual clutter on the front page would be >> terribly distracting. > > I totally hear you. Mikeal's original idea was simply to have a > browser and Couch. But I think it's important to illustrate that any > application, programming language, etc, can interface with Couch, it's > a big part of its appeal. I first tried to find a simpler way to > represent the concept of an application "tier"… I searched for photos > and illustrations of gears and engines. But I had a hard time finding > freely usable images which didn't require attribution, so I gave up > and went with the word cloud idea. If we wouldn't mind adding an > attribution line to the bottom of the page, we could try using an > illustration. > > Would it be worth trying keeping the names of those various > technologies, but organizing them in a neater, simpler, cleaner way? > AKA not a word cloud?
This isn't usable as is, but it illustrates the point pretty well. http://skitch.com/jchris/b453y/couchdb-oscon.pdf-page-42-of-83 > > Anyway, I'd be happy to try any suggestions. > > Or, if the group doesn't think this is worth pursuing, we can just drop it.
