I suggest to change the layout of the bottom half in the following way (will solve the alignment issue):
- 2 column layout in 1:1 ratio for *Getting Started*, 1st column with the text and the download button, second column with the maven code snippets - 2 column layout in 1:1 ratio for the *Recent Blog Posts *and *Community* below the *Getting Started* row. The first column should contain the latest blog posts, the second the community content In addition, I think the top row text to be slightly revised. Flink offers a unified runtime and APIs for both batch + streaming, but at the moment the tagline suggests it is streaming only. Regards, Alexander 2015-05-12 10:55 GMT+02:00 Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org>: > I think starting with Ufuk's draft, de-cluttering it is a good start. > > - Having a more prominent tag line > - Add some pictures for features back > - align the content as per Felix' suggestion > > That should give us a faster quick overview, but keep some serious content > in the starting page. > > I especially like that we have the stack figure and the recent blog posts > on the new website - that we should keep no matter what. > > > > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Kostas Tzoumas <ktzou...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Good points raised by Stephan, Felix, and Volker. > > > > Do you think we can achieve this by iterating on the new design? One > thing > > we can indeed do is de-clutter a bit. Apart from that, what high level > > points would you like to see in the frontpage? > > > > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Markl, Volker, Prof. Dr. < > > volker.ma...@tu-berlin.de> wrote: > > > > > -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 > > > >>>>>>>> > > > >>>>>>> > > > > > > > > > >
