Hi, Looking at this new design today, and I'm really not a fan. Here are some points I want to highlight:
- The first thing I could say is that I don't know i'm on a site speaking about a database before reading the text. And the font chosen (or the background color ?) doesn't help to read it. We shoud enhance the message we want to giv. - The layout doesn't give me the idea to go further in website exploration. I've a long overview without main points, Getting Started is at the bottom, no use case in the frontpage, ... - Main menu doesn't reflect what a user or a developer is looking. compare to the cassandra website for example. What I want as a user is to know how to get started, as a developer , how to contribute... Screenshots are not a sale point for a database. The website of an opensource projects should give in my opinion fast entries to each point of interest. I would like to have : - Download - Getting Started - Wiki/Documentation - Deploy - Contribute - News - We should have a blog on the website. The posts on couch.io are nice, but for a neutral and community point of view, I would want to seem some news features announcement done on the opensource couchdb project too or on the mailing list. - irc access: where is it ? Subjective point: the current graphic design looks so old. I really would like something more modern, insisting on typography and such. Maybe we could use some tools like http://960.gs/ to build a good site layout. etc. Maybe we could relaunch a second graphic contest with votes from the community ? (I don't really like the blue version too, for reason I exposed and were ignored). Hope this post could help to improve the new design. - benoit
