Hi Dominik,
thanks for that it looks a LOT better than the boring skeleton I added.
I would also enjoy a carousel with different things like you mentioned ... the
bootstrap should have all the stuff needed already on-board, I think.
However I am unsure if we should present the different protocol, but more the
use-cases. It's hard to have a picture about a protocol __
Would love a carousel with success stories ... and leave the details to the
"users" section.
Chris
Am 25.01.20, 21:47 schrieb "Dominik Riemer" <rie...@apache.org>:
Hi all,
I've created a first draft of the new landing page.
You can find it at https://github.com/dominikriemer/plc4x-build-tools, just
build it as Chris mentioned:
Change into the directory: plc4x-site-skin
And there just run a “mvn clean install -P run-its”
This will generate a test-website in the directory:
plc4x-site-skin/target/it/plc4x-website/target/site
Feedback is highly welcome, consider this as a very first draft ;-)
I think it would be nice to add some dynamic content between the feature
highlights, e.g., a carousel showing the different integrations and an overview
of supported protocols.
Dominik
On 2020/01/23 12:48:32, Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just let the new version of our website go online ... please check it
out: https://plc4x.apache.org/index.html
>
> And here a list of some things we could need a little help with:
>
> - Make the landing page visually more appealing (Plain HTML & CSS work
ideally utilizing Bootstrap)
> - Make the page display on full height (If you go to the "Apache" main
page, the footer it pretty much at the top, it would be great if it could stick
to the bottom of the screen, but be pushed down if the content requires it.
> - Write Content:
> - Users
> - Protocols: Documentation on the connection strings and the
address formats. If the protocols have specialities, document them from a
user-perspective (Modbus: Coils are plain Boolean, Registers are short values)
> - Integrations: Documentation on how to use the integration
modules
>
> As I mentioned ... help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Chris
>
>
> Am 22.01.20, 12:05 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>:
>
> Hi Dominik,
>
> that would be super awesome ... and regarding the super UX designer
... well I guess any option will improve the current state.
> But I am sure that your UX capabilities are way better than mine ;-)
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> Am 22.01.20, 11:32 schrieb "Dominik Riemer" <rie...@apache.org>:
>
> 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
<christofer.d...@c-ware.de> 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"
<christofer.d...@c-ware.de>:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
