I'm new to this list and to the SQLite website, so my feedback is more of the "first impression" kind. And that impression is: the site is ok. It is clear, simple, with almost anything I need reachable through one or two clicks. The things I would probably do is place a google search field somewhere in a corner and list what programming languages are supported.
The comments you mention, in my opinion, may be valid for promoting a product sold to consumers or enterprise, which are not target audience I would associate with this mailing list. A developer who looks for an embedded database doesn't need eye candy, and big name users don't mean anything (everyone uses Oracle). But that's subjective, of course. Here's what I was looking at when making try/not try decision for sqlite: a) license; b) features; c) could be used with Java; d) source code availability; e) project age and release cycle (is it too young or already dead); f) is active community present; g) options for commercial support available. > (1) It is not clear from the homepage that the software is free. I guess mentioning this won't hurt, but it's no problem. Certainly someone who can write SQL can also find "license" in the menu :) > (2) Half the page is devoted to talking about bugs in > the software. This suggests low quality. This suggests openness. If it went "we have no bugs in our software", I would probably leave immediately. But there's a point that news column usually takes less than 50% of page's width, something I'd agree with. > (3) The "News" contains scary words: "radical changes". s/changes/improvements/ :) Seriously, there's too much care for single words, IMHO. > (4) Three releases in as many months suggests the code is not stable. And 98% test coverage mentioned in the other column suggests otherwise. For me, frequent releases are good. What will you do anyway, hide release history? Hope this helps, Igor -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 7:29 PM To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Subject: [sqlite] Suggests for improving the SQLite website We are looking at renovating the design of the SQLite website and would love to have suggestions from the community. If you have any ideas on how to improve the SQLite website, please constribute either to the mailing list or directly to me. Here are some links to competing database products that might inspire comments: http://www.postgresql.org/ http://www.firebirdsql.org/ http://www.hsqldb.org/ http://opensource.ingres.com/ http://db.apache.org/derby/ http://exist.sourceforge.net/ Among the comments received already are these: (1) It is not clear from the homepage that the software is free. (2) Half the page is devoted to talking about bugs in the software. This suggests low quality. (3) The "News" contains scary words: "radical changes". (4) Three releases in as many months suggests the code is not stable. (5) Move the BigNameUsers to the front page (see http://www.sqlite.org/wiki?p=BigNameUsers) (6) Need more eye-candy. I do not necessary agree with the above comments, but I am open to any and all ideas. You will not hurt my feels, so speak freely. Thanks in advance for your input. -- D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
