Thanks Ivet, the new iterated design looks impressive especially some of the new graphical elements.
+1 to moving forward with the proposed design. Let's collect any further feedback and ideas from the community and if there are no objections go ahead with updating the preview/staging site (https://cloudstack.staged.apache.org/) and eventually publishing the website. Just to be clear on the CMS integration - the ASF infra has declined supporting a 3rd party git-based CMS that can be used with the project website. This is such a shame as I had created PoCs with some rather okay-ist git-based CMS such as Netlify-CMS, TinaCMS and SpinalCMS which would give similar UI-based workflow like the old Roller-based blog did. Nevertheless, for the purposes of publishing blogs the new Github-based document/markdown editor/CMS is fair enough and now allows uploading of assets (images, files etc.) and blog that can be edited directly for any committer incl. PMC members logged into Github and upon saving such changes the website is published by an automatic Github action that builds and published the websites. Unfortunately, any non-committer would need to follow the PR workflow. I had this documented at https://cloudstack.staged.apache.org/website-guide/ that I can help further update in this regard. Regards. ________________________________ From: Ivet Petrova <ivet.petr...@shapeblue.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2023 19:04 To: Giles Sirett <giles.sir...@shapeblue.com> Cc: dev@cloudstack.apache.org <dev@cloudstack.apache.org>; us...@cloudstack.apache.org <us...@cloudstack.apache.org>; Marketing <market...@shapeblue.com> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] New Design for the Apache CloudStack Website Hi All, I uploaded the design here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pef7xWWMPYAA5UkbS_XMUxrz53KB7J5t/view?usp=sharing Kind regards, On 30 Aug 2023, at 16:31, Giles Sirett <giles.sir...@shapeblue.com<mailto:giles.sir...@shapeblue.com>> wrote: Hi Ivet – thanks for pushing forward with this – excited to review a new design. On that note, I cant see a link in your mail ☹ Kind Regards Giles Giles Sirett CEO giles.sir...@shapeblue.com<mailto:giles.sir...@shapeblue.com> www.shapeblue.com<http://www.shapeblue.com/> From: Ivet Petrova <ivet.petr...@shapeblue.com<mailto:ivet.petr...@shapeblue.com>> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2023 10:14 AM To: us...@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:us...@cloudstack.apache.org>; Marketing <market...@shapeblue.com<mailto:market...@shapeblue.com>> Cc: dev <dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>> Subject: [DISCUSS] New Design for the Apache CloudStack Website Hello, I would like to start a discussion on the design of the Apache CloudStack Website and to propose a new design for it. As we all know, the website has not been changed for years in terms of design and information. The biggest issue we know we have is that the website is not showing the full potential of CloudStack. In addition to it during discussions with many community members, I have noted the following issues: - the existing website design is old-school - the current homepage does not collect enough information to show CloudStack's strengths - current website design is missing images from the ACS UI and cannot create a feel for the product in the users - the website has issues on a mobile device - we lack any graphic and diagrams - some important information like how to download is not very visible I collected a lot of feedback during last months and want to propose a new up to date design for the website, which is attached below. The new design will bring: - improved UX - look and feel corresponding to the CloudStack's capabilities and strengths - more graphical elements, diagrams - better branding - more important information, easily accessible for the potential users I hope you will like the new design – all feedback welcome. Once we have the design finalised, we will use Rohit’s proposal previously of a CMS, which is easy to edit. [cid:B5517475-02DA-472A-BD1D-F3B600AD28ED] Kind regards,
