This is all highly opinionated, but here are some of my suggestions. I think you should consider changing domain names. I don't think the name Pylons is bad, just combined with the domain pylonshq.com it just doesn't stick. I'd suggest using pylonsframework.org for the following reasons:
.org - Eludes to an open source/non-profit. If Pylons is open source/non-profit I think its a feature that you should mention to your visitors... I didn't see licensing information anywhere on the homepage? pylonsframework - Eludes to Pylons being a framework right in the domain. I'd click on a URL for pylonsframework.org before pylonshq.com. In general, the things that brought me to Pylons was the 1) speed and libraries of Python and 2) MVC development. Both are not even mentioned on the homepage. It should be in the first paragraph. WSGI seems important, even if I didn't know why, but not a reason I'd choose Pylons over another framework. Its not something that I would say in the first paragraph. I'd say that most people care about two things: speed (both development time and application performance) and stability. These two key points should be the focus of the introduction, to grab the visitors attention. I do think Pylons is flexible, which can be a feature, but it can also be a hindrance... especially for newbies. Thats tricky. I hate to mention the word, but 'screencasts' is almost a standard. It wouldn't hurt if someone could put one together. I hope that I'm not coming off as being overly critical. Pylons is a great framework. Keep up the good work! James Gardner wrote: > Dear all, > > Ben and I have started thinking again about what really makes Pylons > different from other web frameworks and how we can best highlight those > differences in the Pylons marketing to help attract people to the > community and see Pylons gain further recognition and adoption. > > As part of the process we'd like to hire a professional designer to > create a new and striking logo for Pylons but we don't know of anyone > suitable ourselves so I'd like to send out a challenge: Does anyone on > the list know a top notch logo designer who they can recommend and who > might be interested in helping us design a fresh Pylons logo? > > Any recommendations will be much appreciated and after we've discussed > the options here on the list we'll commission the person whose work best > reflects Pylons. > > Cheers, > > James > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-discuss@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
