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A common fixture is at the bottom with the footer including a ton of links under the fold. And a call to action just in the face of visitors (get it, download it etc) And a damn product packshot. (screen shot for non ad junkies). FWIW, notice that there is a ton of social proof in there in the form of logos, testimonials etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_proof Social proof is the best thing ever for us humans, we do have a herd mentality, even if the ST community still evades this somewhat. Phil 2013/3/28 Esteban A. Maringolo <emaring...@gmail.com>: > The Vagrant site is cool. The RoR is nice too, but a little old these days. > But I agree the Pharo site needs to be better, and modern. > > You don't have to leave the Smalltalk community to find a simple site: > Amber-lang.net > It has all, what I think, a newcomer would expect: an intro, a few > FAQs, a code snippet, links to download it or to its Github repo. The > same goes for the Node.js webiste. > > Python and Django on the other hand have more complex websites. > > Regards! > > Esteban A. Maringolo > > > 2013/3/28 Camillo Bruni <camillobr...@gmail.com>: >> I like this >> http://vagrantup.com >> >> and I think you have to immediately address the users by letting them chose >> >> I am new => show how to download details and everything >> I am pro => directly show raw links / discussions ... >> I am a company? :D >> >> of course one should not exclude the other, but we should optimize for the >> targeted audience >> >> On 2013-03-28, at 11:49, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would like to discuss something about a complete redesign of the site >>> because right now, while it was good some years ago, now is old and >>> confusing... >>> I would like something clean and easy, more or less like the ruby on rails >>> site: http://rubyonrails.org >>> >>> ideas? >>> >>> Esteban >>> >>> ps: this is a brainstorm for a change that will take time, do not expect >>> too much too soon :) >> >> >
