Hi Swapnil, Thats a fair argument. I suggest you submit the patch/pull request for the site templates with your changes. I would be happy to give more feedback wherever needed. Also, thanks for your input.
Ankur Chauhan ankurtro...@gmail.com On Oct 15, 2012, at 12:48 PM, Swapnil Kulkarni wrote: > Hello Ankur, > > Glad to see your mail & appreciate your feedback. > > 1) I'm not trying to solve/improve any Tika stuff or trying to create a > revolution with new design. That is very obvious, isn't it? I was trying to > make this website more appealing & user friendly to end users. Proper > design would also help a lot for SEO. Usage of things like Mix Panels would > make traffic monitoring even more better than Google Analytics. > > We all are software engineers and are used to good/neat reference pages. > Thanks to folks at Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox etc for spoiling our habits > of referencing to those age old wiki pages :) It's time to move on. Tika is > a wonderful project and have very brilliant brains working on it then why > do we have a website which looks below average. The first impression of the > project is given by its website. In my opinion, Tika website needs a > makeover and I'm ready to work for it. You may want to compare Tika website > with other Apache project websites. Just in case if you disagree. > > 2) None of the tutorials/guides will become useless. Tika website has a > well defined folder structure & file names. If we could just re-write them > then all links should work fine. There wont be any backward compatibility > issues as well. In my opinion - every problem has a solution :) > > 3) I never said that twitter bootstrap is the best or latest framework but > it's certainly a good starting point. > > With all respect to your opinion. I think - "Time is a dressmaker > specializing in alterations". Tika website certainly needs a makeover for > good. > > +Swapnil > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:31 AM, Ankur Chauhan <ankurtro...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi Swapnil, >> >> If i may raise a simple question, what are you trying to solve/improve by >> the new design? I am just trying to get an idea of the reasoning behind the >> new layout and what would it bring to the table as this would make all the >> tutorials/guides useless which have steps guiding people to new places. >> Also, we may need to setup redirects for different pages to maintain >> backwards compatibility with the urls that are already out there. >> >> I like the twitter bootstrap framework's simplicity but at the same time I >> am also a proponent of "if it ain't broken, don't fix it". >> >> Ankur Chauhan >> ankurtro...@gmail.com / an...@malloc64.com >> >> PS: design looks good, its simple but to be frank, bootstrap has been a >> tad bit overused. >> >> On Oct 14, 2012, at 5:07 PM, Swapnil Kulkarni wrote: >> >>> Hello All, >>> >>> This is Swapnil & I recently used Apache Tika for one of my school >>> projects. Although existing website was very useful, I thought I could >> make >>> it even better(HTML5). Web development is my hobby and I like >> experimenting >>> with new UI frameworks. I love to design and develop user friendly >>> websites. In my free time, I have created these sample pages for Apache >>> Tika website using Twitter's Bootstrap (responsive layout). >>> >>> Home Page: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~swapnilk/tika/index.html >>> Download Page: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~swapnilk/tika/download.html >>> >>> Apache Tika website mostly has read-only data. If you like this >>> layout/design then I'm more than happy to voluntarily re-develop & >> maintain >>> this website. >>> >>> Please let me know your thoughts. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> +Swapnil >>> >>> PS: Please note that this is just a sample prototype hence it may not >> have >>> all data/active links. >> >>
