On 06/07/2011 02:54 PM, Miles Libbey wrote:
Wow. Sounds like a project to tackle when I get a lot smarter. I hope this both sounds a lot less daunting for others, and something like this is rarely needed. I'll download the html and make some modifications to the pages.
I agree, hopefully the tools will improve so mere mortals like me can also help with docs.
IMO, the current staged front page does not look good. The projects that have front pages that I think look decent (Cassandra (http://cassandra.apache.org/), Memcached (http://memcached.org/), Wordpress (http://wordpress.org/), Redhat (http://www.redhat.com/), Miro (http://www.getmiro.com/), Pidgim (http://www.pidgin.im/), etc) have mixed grids, with 1-3 columns per 'row.' I'm ok with not using the current live front page design -- but, it really should be somewhat purposely designed -- the current staged front page gives me a feeling it got the default documentation treatment, and suffers as a result. A bit of css isn't really going to help that -- there isn't enough document structure to change much.
+1. I actually like the look and feel of our current home page a lot. I was hoping that we could keep it, or at least something similar. I think part of the problem is that no one (other than you Miles) is really comfortable with site designs, CSS etc. So, it'd be great to get your help here I think.
-- leif
