Hi Chris, I'd be happy to help improving the PLC4X landing page! In case you're looking for some really fancy UX designer, I'm certainly the wrong person, but I guess I can make one or two proposals on how to make the homepage look more appealing.
Dominik On 2020/01/22 09:26:15, Christofer Dutz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just updated the content of the start-page with some example content. > > I didn't want to have anyone distracted by my old crappy start page ... that > is probably the worst starting page any Apache Project has :-/ > > Chris > > > Am 21.01.20, 22:23 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <[email protected]>: > > Hi all, > > as you might have noticed from my recent postings, we’re currently > working hard on finally building a nicer looking website. > > This is generally not that difficult, because a blind chimpanzee would > probably come up with a nicer looking page than what I created more than 3 > years ago ;-) … but this is also a big problem. Very often I have heard that > potential users don’t really accept us as something industry-grade, because > our website sucks so badly. > > While I think we have reached a quite reasonable state with the general > content, we desperately need someone to help create our landing-page. > > Here we could be using standard HTML and CSS (Ideally with Bootstrap, > cause that’s already there and the site will be using this) > > What we’re looking for is something like one of these pages: > > https://www.industry-fusion.com/ > > https://royale.apache.org/ > > https://pragmaticindustries.com/ > > So I hope you get the idea … these long scrolling down sites with, let’s > call it … low information density, but high wow-factor. > > If you are following this project and was always waiting for something > where you can start contributing … this is probably something we need more > than another driver implementation (Don’t get me wrong … we love new drivers, > but I would definitely also love a nice landing page) > > Please, please, please help us and make yourself famous :-) > > Chris > > >
