The look of the website has improved a lot and it feels a lot more modern. Personally I don't like the front page much. I find it a bit empty. I would like to see what Wine is. I would suggest to look at http://www.go-mono.com the website of the Mono project. On their website your directly see on a banner what Mono is and a list with important features is shown in a column on the left. I think Wine's main features could be shown in a similar way. Sure you could have an information page but I think doing what the Mono guys did is enough for 90% of the people. News could be shown in a similar way. I'm not saying we should clone their website but personally I don't like the 'openoffice.org'-like design much.
Roderick > At Wineconf, we made the decision to change the entry page to the Wine > web site. The hope was to simplify and stream line it, and to put in > place the infrastructure to start moving more content to the Wiki. > > Jeremy Newman and Jon Parshall have put a lot of time and energy into a > proposed new design, following what we took away from the meetings at > Wineconf. > > A mock up of that design is up now here: > http://wine.codeweavers.com/winehq_new/ > > ...and the theming intended for all 'child' pages of the web site, > starting with the Wiki: > http://wine.codeweavers.com/winehq_new/wiki.html > > Beyond the normal controversy that any new design sparks there is one > major potential controversial change. > > That is, I am asking for prime placement on the download page on behalf > of CodeWeavers instead of the (stale and ugly, sorry) banner ads we used > in the past. You can see our current concept around that positioning > here: > http://wine.codeweavers.com/winehq_new/download.html > I hope that the general community sees that as a reasonable exchange for > all of the work we put into Wine and hosting the Wine server, and a vast > improvement over the banner ads. > > At any rate, comments and feedback are welcome. > > And in a vain attempt to prevent all the flames from scorching Jon and > Jeremy, I'd like to officially state how much I appreciate their efforts. > > Cheers, > > Jeremy > -- Sensationsangebot nur bis 30.11: GMX FreeDSL - Telefonanschluss + DSL für nur 16,37 Euro/mtl.!* http://dsl.gmx.de/?ac=OM.AD.PD003K11308T4569a