I'd be keen to see this... then we can decide what we think would work best.
Dan Sorry to be brief, sent from my phone On 13 Oct 2013 21:13, "Jeroen van der Wal" <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice stuff Dan! > > I would go for the second option too: have around 3~4 images in the > carousel and have the instructional slides on a separate page so people can > view them in their own paste. > > I would like to propose an alternative for the carousel: > > In my opinion the carousel should be marketing driven with each slide a > different message and action button. The background image should support > the message but could be faded in the background and not necessarily > directly derived from Isis. Landscapes, buildings, trains etc work well > too. > > Some ideas (I've left the lead text tbd): > > Tagline: "Develop your Domain. Get the UI for Free." > Button: "About Apache Isis" > > Tagline: "Domain Driven Design. On steroids." > Button: "About Apache Isis" > > Tagline: "From Zero to Superhero." > Button "Show Screenshots" > > Tagline: "Ever retrofitted an API to your application? Never again." > Button: "About Apache Isis" > > Tagline: "Sit back and Learn" > Button :"Watch Screen Casts" > > If there's an interest to explore this route I can prepare some samples. > > Just my two cents > > Cheers, > > Jeroen > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Dan Haywood > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > In a few weeks time I'm doing a session at Oredev [1] in Sweden, so am > > planning to get a release out of Isis in readiness for that > > > > I'm also updating our website, with an updated home page [2] having a > > crarousel of screenshots from the todo app. Currently this replaces the > > screenshot page. > > > > As of this point the carousel runs to 20 or so slides, but I reckon it > > could be as long as 60 slides if I documented all of the main features of > > Isis that are shown in the todo app. > > > > Is that good, or bad? > > > > Alternatively, the carousel could show the main highlights, and then > there > > could be a reinstate screenshots page (perhaps the full carousel) of all > 60 > > slides. > > > > Anyway, I'd appreciate any feedback. > > > > Thx > > Dan > > > > PS: I've also updated to Bootstrap3; so if you see any layout glitches, > > that would also be good to know. > > > > > > [1] > > > > > http://oredev.org/2013/wed-fri-conference/rrraddd-ridiculously-rapid-domain-driven-and-restful-apps-with-apache-isis > > [2] http://isis.apache.org/ > > >
