Nope. On 12 Jul 2010, at 11:27, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
> Anyone objects if I revert to the old layout until the new one > is ready? > > Cheers > Jan > -- > > On 12 Jul 2010, at 06:55, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > >> 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 >
