Very nice, i really like the readability of the site.

Alex



On Jan 24, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Shane Becker wrote:

>>>> Until we have something that you can go clickety-click on, we should
>>>> probably do some effort to hide from end-users.
> 
>>> Exactly. A placeholder that doesn't tease, until we have something to show.
>>> That is all.
> 
>> Very, very unbranded homepage with enough information to let the user
>> know what letters.app is, how few expectations to have and how it is
>> being developed with a link to a page containing links to all the
>> information sources (mailing lists, github, etc) and anything else
>> that a contributor might need to know.
> 
> 
> I've been quiet on the list until now. Every I wanted to say was already 
> being said. Not anymore.
> 
> I'm not a Cocoa dev or an email rfc dude, but I do love making websites. I 
> agree with the above that until theres' something worth showing we shouldn't 
> fly a flag as if there's anything remotely close to a product. Keep it 
> simple. Keep it honest. This is open source after all.
> 
> I spent a little bit of time putting something together that i think is:
> - simple
> - honest
> - clean
> - Mac like
> 
> And in the spirit of open source, I've not only deployed it to Heroku (it's a 
> dead simple Rails app with room to grow), but I've also put the repo up on 
> GitHub. Free and open for all to see and fiddle with.
> 
> http://github.com/veganstraightedge/lettersapp_web
> http://letters.heroku.com
> 
> If people want to use it, I'll add the key holders as collaborators on the 
> Heroku app and on the GitHub repo. Changing the url to lettersapp.com is two 
> simple steps: a cname and a command to Heroku. 
> http://docs.heroku.com/custom-domains
> 
> Sb
> 
> 
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