+1. I like it. We should definitely hide the scarey command line stuff and usage statistics from the front page.
On 7/13/2015 8:45 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote: > On 20.06.2015 02:53, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: >> Hello everybody, >> >> Marcos Chaparro has added a screenshot to the wikipedia entry on KiCad: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KiCad#/media/File:KiCad_3D_with_IDF.png > Hi all, > > Why don't we make a simple front page before the stable release, that > doesn't scare people away? > > The wiki we have now under kicad-pcb.org provides a lot of extremely > useful information, in particular for developers, but IMHO it's far too > much for the front page - which should present a brief (3-4 sentences) > description, basic features, links to download and a donate button. > > Unix command line on the front page of the project, just as we have now, > is IMHO a straight road to make people think Kicad is "for hackers only" > and drop our stuff without even trying it... > > I recently was shown Bootstrap, a very easy framework for making nice > looking webpages (even someone as ignorant in web development as myself > could do something that looks like a web page with it). What would you > say about redesigning the Kicad front page (with links to tutorials, > Wiki, etc.) so that it lets people quickly discover the features of > Kicad and download it easily? > > Example design (~50 mins to create, with images) here: > http://twlostow.web.cern.ch/twlostow/www_demo/ > > Cheers, > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp