Author: tomaz
Date: Thu Jan 23 12:53:19 2014
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+layout: post
+title: Welcome to the new website
+author: Tomaz Muraus
+tags:
+ - news
+ - website
+---
+
+Today we are pleased to announce a new, improved and more user friendly version
+of our website.
+
+### Background and History
+
+Original website was developed and published back in 2009 when the project was
+first announced.
+
+A lot has changed since 2009 and during that time the web has been evolving at
+a rapid pace. Now we have terms such as [responsive web design][2], great
+front-end frameworks for building responsive websites such as [Bootstrap][2]
+and [Zurb][3] and many other new things which didn't exist or weren't widely
+used back when we first launched.
+
+During this time we focused most of our efforts on improving the code and
+making the library better. This meant the website didn't receive a lot of
+needed love and attention so design-wise, it was mostly stuck in the 2009 era.
+
+Over the years it has become apparent that presentation and documentation is
+also equally or even more important then the code itself, so we have decided
+to fix some of the "mistakes" we have made in the past.
+
+A couple of months back we launched a [new documentation][4] and today, we are
+happy to present you a new and much improved website which was built with
+modern tools and principles in mind.
+
+### Improvements and New Features
+
+<div class="imginline">
+ <img src="/images/posts/tbd/preview.png" class="img-responsive inline" />
+ <p class="img-caption">Responsive design makes a site pleasure to use on a
+ variety of devices and screen sizes. Image by placeit.net.</p>
+</div>
+
+New website includes many improvements and new features. Some of the more
+important ones are listed bellow.
+
+#### More modern and user-friendly design
+
+New website now features a more modern and user-friendly design. This includes
+bigger fonts, better typography and so on.
+
+On top of that, the new design is fully responsive which means you can now
+better enjoy the content on smaller devices such as mobile phones and tablets.
+
+#### Improved and re-designed landing page
+
+We know that landing pages are very important so we have decided to totally
+re-design and re-organise ours.
+
+New landing page now displays all the important information (project features,
+code examples, showcases some companies and projects using Libcloud) and also
+features a more clear call to action.
+
+#### Blog section
+
+New website now features a fully-fledged blog.
+
+We will use the blog to post important project news, keep you up to date with
+what is currently going on and post case studies and stories from projects and
+companies which are using Libcloud.
+
+If you are using an RSS reader to stay up to date, we also offer an
+[ATOM feed][10].
+
+#### Updated Credits Page
+
+[Credits][9] page now features an up to date list of people who have
+contributed code and documentation.
+
+As noted on that page, the list is automatically generated from the CHANGES
+file so it might not be 100% accurate.
+
+#### Search Engine Optimizations
+
+We have made some changes which will make our website a bit more friendly to
+the web crawlers and search engines. We hope this will make it easier for you
+to more quickly find the content you are looking for.
+
+The changes we have made include improvements to the underlying HTML markup,
+addition of the [OpenGraph][13] tags and an addition of a sitemap.
+
+### Under the Hood
+
+Old website was powered by [Apache CMS][6]. It mostly worked good enough for
+simple use cases, but a small user base means it lacks a large ecosystem around
+it which is pretty standard for many other popular content management systems.
+
+Because of that, we have decided to switch to [Jekyll][7], a Ruby based static
+website and blog engine.
+
+On top of that, the new website is fully responsive and built using
+[Bootstrap 3][2] front-end framework.
+
+Similar to the old website, source code is still stored in an SVN repository
+so all the benefits we get from version control are preserved.
+
+Source code of the new website can be found in the [SVN repository][8].
+
+### Conclusion
+
+We hope you will like and enjoy the new website.
+
+We also hope the new website now better reflects the underlying evolution of
+the library and the direction we are heading.
+
+If you have any suggestions on how we can make the website even better, don't
+hesitate and share it with us. You can send your feedback to the
+[mailing list][11], or you can [checkout the website repository][12] and make
+the changes yourself.
+
+[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design
+[2]: http://getbootstrap.com/
+[3]: http://foundation.zurb.com/
+[4]: https://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
+[5]: http://jekyllrb.com/
+[6]: http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html
+[7]: http://jekyllrb.com/
+[8]: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/libcloud/site/trunk/
+[9]: /credits.html
+[10]: /blog/atom.xml
+[11]: /community.html#mailing-lists
+[12]: /community.html#website-repository
+[13]: http://ogp.me/
