[Grok-dev] Re: Web site ready for relaunch?

[David Bain]

my 2 cents.
The second screenshot would provide a simpler navigation experience, which
would be a good thing.
That said I don't think the current look can't work. I'm sure it could be
switched over to the simpler layout at a later date.

On Jan 21, 2008 2:46 PM, daniel <daniel.carraher at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here are two screenshots which display the simpler concept:
>
> current site: http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/6950/oldsf5.jpg
>
> A possible simpler view:
> http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/5593/newfc5.jpg
>
>
> both screenshots show the mouseover highlights.
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2008 8:47 AM, Martijn Faassen < faassen at startifact.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > We're getting there. Great work!
> >
> > Now for my show stopper:
> >
> > I think the 'download' link isn't working right now. If you click that
> > you get the release info on the latest release. This actually doesn't
> > explain to beginners how to download and install Grok! We need a page
> > that explains how to install Grok. I think we can just recycle the text
> > from the start of the tutorial. I think it's fine to duplicate it for
> > now; we can always merge them back together at some later point.
> >
> > > Top Level Pages
> > > ******************
> > >
> > > I was screwing around with the home page & friends a little bit more.
> > I
> > > restored the "Download" link, but I removed the "Develop" link. For
> > this
> > > link we had, "*Develop* your application with Grok. Documentation,
> > > forums, mailing lists." Which I couldn't figure out what to put for
> > > content for this besides links to the Documentation and Community
> > > sections. There is still lots of room for improvement in these areas.
> >
> > I think merging them is good enough for now.
> >
> > > People want:
> > >
> > > * Marketing oriented text and images for:
> > > Evaluate/Download/Learn/Develop/Participate
> > >
> > > * Improvements to the Navigation area
> > >
> > > After we re-launch we can bring up a new preview site where we can
> > > sandbox improvements to this stuff.
> >
> > Sounds like a good plan.
> >
> > > However we also need people willing
> > > to contribute art assets, layouts and text. If some design oriented
> > > folks are able to come up with image mock-ups for these pages and we
> > can
> > > reach a general consensus of agreement to these areas I'll be willing
> > to
> > > do the HTML/CSS/Plone grunt work to make it happen.
> > >
> > > Also for the most part I think we should focus more on adding useful
> > > content at the moment, e.g. better Grok project information (core
> > > development policies, Release notes, upgrade notes), better text
> > > explaining the unique benefits of Grok, etc. The content that people
> > are
> > > willing to write and maintain should then inform the layout of our
> > > marketing oriented pages rather than vice-versa.
> >
> > A good point, and I agree.
> >
> > I think we should just look at resolving the download issue. I also
> > noticed some extra newlines in various code samples in the main
> > tutorial, like here:
> >
> > $ python
> > Python 2.4.4
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >
> >  >>>
> >
> > (The >>> should follow directly, of course).
> >
> > I wonder what's going on here?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Martijn
> >
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>
>
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>
> -- Daniel
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