Hi Klaus, all, I'm happy to help working on "the blue design", apparently this completely went under my radar. I'll have a closer look tomorrow. I'm sorry I went with this in a wild-west manner, but my impression was that there wasn't any movement on the website front since winter and wanted to get at least some change out. I clearly have been wrong and I'll rectify this tomorrow :) Sorry again!
Cheers Jan -- On 9 Jul 2010, at 21:38, Klaus Trainer wrote: >> last I checked it was just the front page that had been done. I was >> surprised to see the patch also, but I do like movement. > > I also like movement, but I don't think that this one has been to the > better. Moreover, the project website might be too important to just > switch its design without community consensus. > > Personally, I've liked the project website just because all important > links were clearly arranged in the sidebar. > > In order to get all the important links, people now have to go to the > wiki (over the "Documentation" link). > > When I'm looking for the dev mailing list, I need to follow the > "Documentation" -link. > > If I'm looking for the repository, there is a website: > http://couchdb.apache.org/community/code.html > ...but where is a link to it? I couldn't find any, not even in the wiki! > > Furthermore, the fact that the red navigation bar takes the full screen > width, but the header and the content body not, is quite irritation. > > In my eyes, nearly all those changes are for the worse and have to be > fixed! > > >> it'd be a lot of work to bring the other pages into the blue design (I >> think) > > Regarding the blue design, my opinion is that the start page it's really > stunning. I also like the sidebar with the revised naming and the more > use-case-oriented focus. > > I'd like to propose a simple solution for the other pages (beside > index.html) and therefore ported the downloads page to the blue design > (http://github.com/KlausTrainer/couchdb_web). I've simply adopted the > header and breadcrumbs from the "traditional" design. > > If enough people say that they'd prefer the blue design, I'd be willing > to also port the rest (approx. 10 pages). > > I know that regarding the blue design, as it is, there is space for some > fine tuning. Nonetheless, I think we should find out whether people > (you!) generally like it or not before scrapping it. > > > - Klaus >
