Great, thanks! Just a technical note: in markdown you can define 'metadata' like it's currently done with the
title: I think we can also introduce our own like mainmenu: core, jpa, jsf which we can render as menus to core.html, jpa.html, jsf.html Have not done it yet, but I guess this is possible. LieGrue, strub ----- Original Message ----- > From: Pete Muir <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2012 2:47 PM > Subject: Re: [suggestion] - DeltaSpike look'n'feel > > > On 4 Jul 2012, at 08:09, Charles Moulliard wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Yesterday night, a interesting and vibrant discussion took place on IRC >> channel about new look'n'feel of DeltaSpike. As we are human, with > different >> colors perceptions and different tastes, I have find the time this morning >> to compile some projects and ask you your opinion about which one you > prefer >> and that we could adopt to prepare a model/mock-up for DeltaSpike. >> >> Camel : http://camel.apache.org http://camel.apache.org - [] >> Play : http://www.playframework.org http://www.playframework.org - [] >> MongDB : http://www.mongodb.org http://www.mongodb.org - [] >> Accumulo: http://accumulo.apache.org http://accumulo.apache.org - [] >> Wookie : http://incubator.apache.org/wookie >> http://incubator.apache.org/wookie - [] >> River : http://river.apache.org http://river.apache.org - [] >> OpenEJB : http://openejb.apache.org openejb.apache.org - [] >> Lucene : http://lucene.apache.org http://lucene.apache.org - [] >> Libcloud : http://libcloud.apache.org http://libcloud.apache.org - [] >> Esme: http://esme.apache.org http://esme.apache.org - [] >> Chemistry: http://chemistry.apache.org chemistry.apache.org - [] >> Cassandra : http://cassandra.apache.org http://cassandra.apache.org - [] > > The order I like them, one I like the least at the bottom: > > TomEE (Great, it tells me what it is, I've got a video to look at really > quickly, it gives me a call to action, it leads me into getting started, > it's got news, there aren't too many things to do) > Cassandra (This is great, it's got a clear thing for me to do (download), > tells me what Cassandra is, and I can easily choose where to go next) > MongoDB (This is pretty good, they've kept the information quite relevant on > the front page with features, events, case studies, only criticism is they > have > 4 calls to action) > ESME (This is a nice clean site. Not too many links, it tells me what it is. > There is a (slightly hidden) call to action. There is no updates about what > is > going on. I can easily find how to get started and get involved). > Lucene (This is pretty good, it tells me what Lucene is, it gives a me a call > to > action, it has some news (with dates!). However it's muddled by being about > multiple projects, and therefore multiple CTAs. I couldn't see how to get > started) > Play (this is a bit cluttered, too much going on) > Libcloud (this has the right info (references, what is it, how to get > started), > but's its not where I expect it, which is confusing. The vendor logos > distract me. There is no obvious call to action). Design is a bit in your > face) > Chemistry (This has some of the right info - it tells me what it is but there > is > no call to action, I can't see where to get started, there are too many > logos (apache + CMIS + Chemistry). It does have project news, with dates, > design > feels a bit cobbled together) > Camel (this is ok, it took me a while to find the call to action, and it's > not obvious (a shrinkwrapped box doesn't shout DOWNLOAD), there are > generally too many options, it looks very old school) > Wookie (no call to action, no info on what's going on, I can easily find > where to start though) > Accumulo (no call to action, no info on what is going on (e.g. events), very > boring theme, i'm not sure how I would get started) > River (no call to action, no info on what it is, too many links, very boring > theme, but does have some updating content - but no dates, which really > negates > the purpose of it) > >> >> Beside the look'n'feel, there are also importants questions like : >> >> A) Number of columns for the body >> - 3 columns with left TOC, body in the middel and Search/Twitter/News on > the >> right () [] >> - 2 columns with left TOC, body on the right (accumulo, wookie, esme) [] >> - 2 columns with right TOC, body on the left (camel, river) [] >> - 1 column (like OpenEjb, Cassandra or Play) [] > > I like starting with 1 column, and then having more underneath. Navigation on > the top, rather in the body, works well for me. > >> >> B) Theme to be chosen >> - http://bootswatch.com/ [], >> - http://www.oswd.org/designs/favorites/ [] >> >> C) Adoption of CSS3 Grid System or not >> - 960.gs [] >> - http://www.1kbgrid.com/ [] >> - No Grid System [] >> (After checking some incubators Apache web site, it appears that nobody > uses >> GS) > > I would use bootstrap, and create our own design. > > Here are a couple of bootstrap based sites we did that we did the design for: > > http://arquillian.org/ > http://www.jboss.org/jdf/ > > and as a result, don't really look like bootstrap. > >> >> What else, a tea or a coffee and take the time to surf on the Net to figure >> out what Deltaspike WebSite should looks like and next add a cross mark in >> the [] of this email. >> >> Regards, >> >> >> ----- >> Apache Committer / Sr. Pr. Consultant at FuseSource.com >> Email: [hidden email] >> Twitter : @cmoulliard, @fusenews >> Blog : http://cmoulliard.blogspot.com >> -- >> View this message in context: > http://apache-deltaspike-incubator-discussions.2316169.n4.nabble.com/suggestion-DeltaSpike-look-n-feel-tp4652977.html >> Sent from the Apache DeltaSpike Incubator Discussions mailing list archive > at Nabble.com. >
