Hi Chris, I just pushed another update that includes the carousel and also changes (hopefully improves) the layout of the teaser a bit.
Do you have any text on success stories that we could add? Dominik On 2020/01/26 09:57:58, Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
