First of all: I'm not a graphical designer or the king of HTML and CSS, but
this is just a brainwave.It seems like we want a lot of links on the first
page. The current page-setup isn't really link-friendly.It contains a lot of
text, most of us haven't read it for ages, they just click directly to the
required page.My idea is to use a portal view, where portlets can be grouped
and each portlet contains it's own specific links.With some coloring I tried to
bundle some portlets, like "blue" for the role of the visitor, "green" for the
product Maven.The one-click download doesn't seem to be possible. The Apache
Site always list the mirrors you can download from, never a direct reference.
Anyhow, just shoot at http://people.apache.org/~rfscholte/maven-site/ (half of
the links just refer to #)(I hope there's somebody who knows somebody who can
make it look great ;) ) -Robert
> From: aherit...@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:23:17 +0200
> Subject: Re: Maven Download Procedure
> To: dev@maven.apache.org
>
> +1
> It was said several times and many people are agree to simplify / cleanup /
> improve our web site ....
> If someone is volunteer :-)
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Brett Porter <br...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > I think you'll find in the archives of this list plenty of agreement and
> > thoughts about how to change / simplify. It just needs someone willing to
> > start :)
> >
> > - Brett
> >
> > On 09/07/2011, at 8:24 PM, Robert Scholte wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > I agree with Tim here. Compare the maven[1] and gradle[2] homepages. The
> > gradle page is pretty clean (too clean?) and you know immediately where to
> > download the bundle.The maven site has a huge amount of text, all links look
> > the same so I can imagine that newbies get a bit lost, already on this page.
> > That can't be right.I think it's more than adding a huge download button.
> > IMHO the pages should reflect the role of the visitor (starter, user,
> > developer) instead of summing up all the handy stuff, but that's a real
> > challenge. -Robert [1] http://maven.apache.org[2] http://gradle.org
> > >> From: vsive...@apache.org
> > >> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 23:11:20 -0400
> > >> Subject: Re: Maven Download Procedure
> > >> To: dev@maven.apache.org
> > >>
> > >> Well, 3 clicks vs 1 click to get Maven vs gradle from the main page,
> > >> not a big deal IMHO.
> > >> Apache Ant gives it in 2 clicks by catching the right mirror.
> > >> Apache Tomcat 2 clicks by catching the right mirror.
> > >> Apache Directory gives it in 3 clicks.
> > >> and so on
> > >>
> > >> So, I think we are not so bad.
> > >>
> > >> Vincent
> > >>
> > >> 2011/7/8 Tim O'Brien <tobr...@discursive.com>:
> > >>> I had to write this process down for the millionth time today. Here it
> > >>> is: the current procedure for downloading Maven (without using
> > figures).
> > >>>
> > >>> 1. Go to http://maven.apache.org.
> > >>> 2. On the right-hand side of the page, you should see a section with
> > the
> > >>> title "Get Maven 3.0.3".
> > >>> 3. Click on the first link in this section, the link titled "Maven
> > 3.0.3"
> > >>> next to the folder icon. This will take you to a list of Maven
> > >>> distributions.
> > >>> 4. Click on one of the archive links (apache-maven-3.0.3-bin.tgz or
> > >>> apache-maven-3.0.3-bin.zip) in the "Mirrors" column of this table.
> > >>> 5. You should then see the "Apache Download Mirrors" page.
> > >>> 6. Click on one of the Mirror URLs and download Apache Maven.
> > >>>
> > >>> Can we figure out a way to make it this easy?
> > >>>
> > >>> 1. Go to http://maven.apache.org
> > >>> 2. Click on one of the Download buttons to download Maven.
> > >>>
> > >>> Is /dyn/closer.cgi a Foundation requirement? Is there any project
> > that
> > >>> uses an alternative? I see closer.cgi used on Tapestry and CouchDB.
> > >>> Apache Directory looks like it uses an intuitive approach (without
> > >>> breaking user experience):
> > >>>
> > http://directory.apache.org/apacheds/2.0/download/download-windows.html
> > >>>
> > >>> If you are curious as to why I'm interested in this now. It is
> > because I'm
> > >>> starting to pay much closer attention to Gradle, and Gradle gets this
> > right.
> > >>> The process to download Gradle is:
> > >>>
> > >>> 1. Go to http://gradle.org
> > >>> 2. Click on the download link
> > >>>
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