On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 14:57, Philippe Monnet <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Magnus! I love the idea of working on the web site for 2.1. > I am still not crazy about the web site name though - as it is not easy for > people to remember if they don't know the connection with _why. I personally > would have preferred rubycamping.com or something linking Camping to Ruby > somehow. But if everyone prefers that name I am fine with that.
Sure, I don't care what's the domain name will be. > A couple ideas for the site: > Keep the home page simple with all content fitting within 1280 x 1024 I don't necessarily agree with this: users are used to scroll on the internet (e.g. http://vowsjs.org/) > Use a catchy design (need some help here) Of course! Unfortunately, I can't really help here either. > Accentuate that Camping is about Ruby (maybe also include the ruby logo > somewhere) Agree. > Have a brief note about the connection to _why and a link to a page > explaining the history of Camping with further links to _why's other sites Agree. I feel these kind of pages should end up at the wiki (but we might want to move away from GitHub's wiki). > Encourage people to try it by capitalizing on some of Camping's strengths: > > Fast to learn - requires only basic Ruby skills > Much simpler than Rails but more structure than Sinatra/Padrino > Lightning fast and memory efficient allowing fast and efficient sites > Can evolve from simple file to organized directory structure > Can layer in more features later using persistence and choice of view > engines Totally agree! > How about using some kind of an animated (auto advancing) slideshow to > highlight some of the benefits? See an example at: > http://blog.monnet-usa.com/?p=276 Interesting. We'll have to check that out. > How about a page on learning with a link to the book as well as a list of > links for other tutorials or short explanations on key topics (e.g. how to > do migrations, how to use include/extend, how to use different view engines, > etc.)? This should hopefully be a part of the reference section > How about a page about plugins with some brief description of their intent? Wiki material? > I would love for us to include _why's cartoons in some of the sub pages ;-) Agree. > Who would be interested in working together on the site? I'm always interested, but I'm that good at design… > Could we do a couple graphic mockups of the main page? How should we > exchange them? Via the mailing list? Not sure… > I am ready and excited to help with that. I think it would be great to > launch the site in time for _Why Day (Aug 19th)! > > Philippe > Also, I think we should store a lot of information on a wiki; Camping is after all a pretty much "public" project. I still think we should have a separate website though (which should both work as a place where you can find Camping-related resources AND where we "advertise" to new people). _______________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
