-1 Dear all,
first and foremost, thanks to Ufuk, for the new design. However, I agree with Felix that the current page is more of a documentation than a front page. I wonder where would people who do not know about Flink already find what it is about quickly in a concise way? I believe that the landing page should give information about features in a "declarative way" (what, not how ;-) ) before going into details. I also believe that the current page does a better job on this than the new design. To me the new design looks like a perfect architecture page and intro to the documentation, but not like the starting page of the project. Best, Volker -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: ewenstep...@gmail.com [mailto:ewenstep...@gmail.com] Im Auftrag von Stephan Ewen Gesendet: Montag, 11. Mai 2015 22:01 An: dev@flink.apache.org Betreff: Re: New project website I agree that we should have a "more serious content, less happy hipster" website. The current one is very nice, but I also think it has a tendency to pack too much content into a small space. For me (and probably other old people with less-than-sharp eyes), it may help to space things out a bit... On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Timo Walther <twal...@apache.org> wrote: > I completely agree with Robert. Less marketing, more technical > information targeted to the user group. > > I think the diagram could be a little bit larger and the blog post > smaller, so that the lines meet in the middle ;) > > > On 11.05.2015 14:39, Robert Metzger wrote: > >> I think its fine when the front page looks a little bit more like a >> documentation. >> Flink is no fancy hipster app, our users are either sysops running it >> on a cluster or developers programming against APIs. >> I think the new website will convince this target audience. >> >> I agree with you that aligning the vertical separators might help >> visual structure of the page. I think we "only" need to center the >> vertical separator between the getting started and the blog/community >> section. >> The positioning of the first line is fine, in my opinion.... >> >> >> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Felix Neutatz >> <neut...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hi Ufuk, >>> >>> I really like the idea of redesigning the start page. But in my >>> opinion your page design looks more like a documentation webpage >>> than a starting page. >>> >>> In my personal opinion I like the current design better, since you >>> get a really quick overview with many fancy pictures. (So if you >>> wanna dive in deep, you can check out things in the documentation or/and >>> wiki). >>> >>> Moreover I have some design issue. Can you align the structure that >>> there aren't as many overlaps. Here you can see what I mean: >>> http://postimg.org/image/paogu6f3h/ >>> >>> This is only my personal opinion, maybe I have a wrong idea about >>> starting pages. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Felix >>> >>> >>> 2015-05-11 14:06 GMT+02:00 Hermann Gábor <reckone...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> Great! >>>> It looks way better than the current site :) >>>> >>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 1:28 PM Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> I think we may have to remove the term "Language Integrated >>>> Queries", I >>>>> think that is trademarked by Microsoft. >>>>> >>>>> Otherwise, +1 >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Maximilian Michels >>>>> <m...@apache.org> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> +1 very nice comprehensive overhaul of the website. I'd suggest >>>>> to >>>>>> >>>>> merge >>>> >>>>> this as soon as possible. We can incrementally fix the remaining >>>>>> >>>>> issues >>> >>>> and >>>>> >>>>>> add a twitter feed to the front page. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Ted Dunning >>>>>> <ted.dunn...@gmail.com >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> If there is an active twitter entity for Flink, I recommend >>>>>> framing >>>>>>> >>>>>> that >>>>> >>>>>> on >>>>>> >>>>>>> the home page. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> >>>>>>> >>>>>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hey all, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I reworked the project website the last couple of days and >>>>>>>> would >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> like >>>> >>>>> to >>>>>> >>>>>>> share the preview: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> http://uce.github.io/flink-web/ >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I would like to get this in asap. We can push incremental >>>>>>>> updates >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> at >>>> >>>>> any >>>>>> >>>>>>> time, but I think this version is a big improvement over the >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> current >>>> >>>>> status >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> quo. If I get some +1s I'll go ahead and update the website >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> today. >>> >>>> – Ufuk >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >
