Hi Ivet,
The proposal seems very promising; looking forward to it.
Best regard,
Daniel Salvador (gutoveronezi)
On 9/19/23 06:59, Ivet Petrova wrote:
Hi all,
Thanks for the good feedback and positive words.
I would suggest that if no-one has something against the new design, we start a
development of the new home page.
For the internal pages, which are mainly text, we can add simple headers and
footers and something lightweight.
I will wait till next Wednesday to see if someone wants to add something more.
Kind regards,
On 7 Sep 2023, at 18:48, Foysal Kayum
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Seems Great 👍.
On Thu, Sep 7, 2023, 4:07 PM Wido den Hollander
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Op 31-08-2023 om 11:41 schreef Rohit Yadav:
Thanks Ivet, the new iterated design looks impressive especially some of the
new graphical elements.
+1 to moving forward with the proposed design. Let's collect any further
feedback and ideas from the community and if there are no objections go ahead
with updating the preview/staging site (https://cloudstack.staged.apache.org/)
and eventually publishing the website.
Just to be clear on the CMS integration - the ASF infra has declined supporting
a 3rd party git-based CMS that can be used with the project website. This is
such a shame as I had created PoCs with some rather okay-ist git-based CMS such
as Netlify-CMS, TinaCMS and SpinalCMS which would give similar UI-based
workflow like the old Roller-based blog did.
Nevertheless, for the purposes of publishing blogs the new Github-based
document/markdown editor/CMS is fair enough and now allows uploading of assets
(images, files etc.) and blog that can be edited directly for any committer
incl. PMC members logged into Github and upon saving such changes the website
is published by an automatic Github action that builds and published the
websites. Unfortunately, any non-committer would need to follow the PR
workflow. I had this documented at
https://cloudstack.staged.apache.org/website-guide/ that I can help further
update in this regard.
Thank you Ivet and Rohit, this is looking great! Much better then we had.
I have no real comments not objections to do. It's a great improvement
over what we currently have.
Wido
Regards.
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Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] New Design for the Apache CloudStack Website
Hi All,
I uploaded the design here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pef7xWWMPYAA5UkbS_XMUxrz53KB7J5t/view?usp=sharing
Kind regards,
On 30 Aug 2023, at 16:31, Giles Sirett
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Hi Ivet – thanks for pushing forward with this – excited to review a new design.
On that note, I cant see a link in your mail ☹
Kind Regards
Giles
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Subject: [DISCUSS] New Design for the Apache CloudStack Website
Hello,
I would like to start a discussion on the design of the Apache CloudStack
Website and to propose a new design for it.
As we all know, the website has not been changed for years in terms of design
and information. The biggest issue we know we have is that the website is not
showing the full potential of CloudStack. In addition to it during discussions
with many community members, I have noted the following issues:
- the existing website design is old-school
- the current homepage does not collect enough information to show CloudStack's
strengths
- current website design is missing images from the ACS UI and cannot create a
feel for the product in the users
- the website has issues on a mobile device
- we lack any graphic and diagrams
- some important information like how to download is not very visible
I collected a lot of feedback during last months and want to propose a new up
to date design for the website, which is attached below. The new design will
bring:
- improved UX
- look and feel corresponding to the CloudStack's capabilities and strengths
- more graphical elements, diagrams
- better branding
- more important information, easily accessible for the potential users
I hope you will like the new design – all feedback welcome. Once we have the
design finalised, we will use Rohit’s proposal previously of a CMS, which is
easy to edit.
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Kind regards,
