Nice stuff Dan! I would go for the second option too: have around 3~4 images in the carousel and have the instructional slides on a separate page so people can view them in their own paste.
I would like to propose an alternative for the carousel: In my opinion the carousel should be marketing driven with each slide a different message and action button. The background image should support the message but could be faded in the background and not necessarily directly derived from Isis. Landscapes, buildings, trains etc work well too. Some ideas (I've left the lead text tbd): Tagline: "Develop your Domain. Get the UI for Free." Button: "About Apache Isis" Tagline: "Domain Driven Design. On steroids." Button: "About Apache Isis" Tagline: "From Zero to Superhero." Button "Show Screenshots" Tagline: "Ever retrofitted an API to your application? Never again." Button: "About Apache Isis" Tagline: "Sit back and Learn" Button :"Watch Screen Casts" If there's an interest to explore this route I can prepare some samples. Just my two cents Cheers, Jeroen On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Dan Haywood <[email protected]>wrote: > Folks, > > In a few weeks time I'm doing a session at Oredev [1] in Sweden, so am > planning to get a release out of Isis in readiness for that > > I'm also updating our website, with an updated home page [2] having a > crarousel of screenshots from the todo app. Currently this replaces the > screenshot page. > > As of this point the carousel runs to 20 or so slides, but I reckon it > could be as long as 60 slides if I documented all of the main features of > Isis that are shown in the todo app. > > Is that good, or bad? > > Alternatively, the carousel could show the main highlights, and then there > could be a reinstate screenshots page (perhaps the full carousel) of all 60 > slides. > > Anyway, I'd appreciate any feedback. > > Thx > Dan > > PS: I've also updated to Bootstrap3; so if you see any layout glitches, > that would also be good to know. > > > [1] > > http://oredev.org/2013/wed-fri-conference/rrraddd-ridiculously-rapid-domain-driven-and-restful-apps-with-apache-isis > [2] http://isis.apache.org/ >
