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Posted to dev@lucene.apache.org by Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com> on 2012/02/08 03:13:43 UTC
Reorg the website a bit.
The news as the front page for the lucene / solr pages seems a little less than ideal as our initial impression to new viewers.
I think we should try and put something more compelling.
As a start, I propose this:
How about changing the features tab to News and moving the features to the front page?
Any other ideas or thoughts along those lines?
- Mark Miller
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Re: Reorg the website a bit.
Posted by Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com>.
On Feb 18, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Robert Muir wrote:
> Also the website is missing a big download button!
+1
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Re: Reorg the website a bit.
Posted by Robert Muir <rc...@gmail.com>.
Also the website is missing a big download button!
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Yonik Seeley
<yo...@lucidimagination.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The news as the front page for the lucene / solr pages seems a little less than ideal as our initial impression to new viewers.
>>
>> I think we should try and put something more compelling.
>
> +1
>
> Another visual issue (IMO) is that our current tutorial seems pretty
> squished due to the right hand column taking up a lot of space.
> http://lucene.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html
>
> A quick measure shows that the content is only getting about 59% of
> the width of the page (on my monitor w/ chrome at least).
>
> I assume maybe it needs to take up a lot of space because of the
> Latest SVN, Latest JIRA, Latest Dev, Latest Solr User, #solr
> sections?
>
> Ignoring the fact that those sections don't even work on the tutorial
> page, I'm not sure they should be on the front page either.
> They look kind of visually messy, with much of the content overflowing
> into the gray area.
> Those things could be confined to the news page perhaps...
>
> Another minor improvement would be to make the link text stand out
> more (brighter blue). On my monitor, the tutorial links are pretty
> hard to pick out.
>
> -Yonik
> lucidimagination.com
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Re: Reorg the website a bit.
Posted by Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com>.
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Mark Miller <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The news as the front page for the lucene / solr pages seems a little less than ideal as our initial impression to new viewers.
>
> I think we should try and put something more compelling.
+1
Another visual issue (IMO) is that our current tutorial seems pretty
squished due to the right hand column taking up a lot of space.
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html
A quick measure shows that the content is only getting about 59% of
the width of the page (on my monitor w/ chrome at least).
I assume maybe it needs to take up a lot of space because of the
Latest SVN, Latest JIRA, Latest Dev, Latest Solr User, #solr
sections?
Ignoring the fact that those sections don't even work on the tutorial
page, I'm not sure they should be on the front page either.
They look kind of visually messy, with much of the content overflowing
into the gray area.
Those things could be confined to the news page perhaps...
Another minor improvement would be to make the link text stand out
more (brighter blue). On my monitor, the tutorial links are pretty
hard to pick out.
-Yonik
lucidimagination.com
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Re: Reorg the website a bit.
Posted by Joe Cabrera <ca...@gmail.com>.
On 02/07/2012 08:36 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote:
> : The news as the front page for the lucene / solr pages seems a little
> : less than ideal as our initial impression to new viewers.
> :
> : I think we should try and put something more compelling.
> :
> : As a start, I propose this:
> :
> : How about changing the features tab to News and moving the features to the front page?
>
> +1
>
> but how about making the "News" tab link over to a new
> blogs.apache.org/lucene ? (so our "news" can have an RSS feed even!)
>
> http://www.apache.org/dev/blogs.html#project-blogs
>
>
>
> -Hoss
>
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A RSS feed would look very nice if I was linked to blogs.apache.org/lucene
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Re: Reorg the website a bit.
Posted by Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>.
: The news as the front page for the lucene / solr pages seems a little
: less than ideal as our initial impression to new viewers.
:
: I think we should try and put something more compelling.
:
: As a start, I propose this:
:
: How about changing the features tab to News and moving the features to the front page?
+1
but how about making the "News" tab link over to a new
blogs.apache.org/lucene ? (so our "news" can have an RSS feed even!)
http://www.apache.org/dev/blogs.html#project-blogs
-Hoss
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