Beam Website Redesign

[Brittany Hermann <he...@google.com>]

Hi folks,

We have exciting news, we will be kicking off the Beam website redesign on
Monday which will include design and content changes, adding an about Beam
page, adding an IO connectors page, adding AI/ML page, carousel for case
studies (Beam model graph design), and adding about Beam page.

If you would like to help out with this redesign, please reach out directly
to me, we'd be happy to have a few more eyes!


-- 

Brittany Hermann

Re: Beam Website Redesign

[Sachin Agarwal <sa...@google.com>]

Hey folks -

I think "redesign" is overstating the scope of what's contemplated here.
The scope is to take some best practices from other Apache projects' sites,
such as Airflow, and apply those learnings to the Beam site.  I would
characterize the scope here as being relatively non-invasive.

There could be a couple of new pages highlighting connectors (both included
in Beam and those that aren't bundled) and perhaps one around AI/ML use
cases in particular, given that there's been a fair amount of interest in
that particular use case given Beam's strengths there.  We will absolutely
take care to ensure no conflicts around the built-in connectors page
pointed out, for sure.  But the general thrust would be to do a good
once-over of all non-documentation parts of the site and strengthen /
update them.  You can see some of this strengthening work to be done
on the case
studies page <https://beam.apache.org/case-studies/>, for example.  The
detailed case studies are fantastic, but the logos underneath those
detailed case studies in the currently-named "Also used by" section are
very outdated and need to be refreshed.

Cheers,
Sachin

On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 11:46 AM Robert Bradshaw <ro...@google.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 11:32 AM Brian Hulette <bh...@google.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Brittany,
> >
> > Some previous efforts to revamp/redesign the beam website ended up being
> very challenging to merge. The developers worked on a branch which
> inevitably had conflicts with changes to website content that happened in
> parallel on Beam's master branch.
>
> +1
>
> It's also not clear what is being "kicked off" on Monday. If it's a
> question of adding/evolving some pages, I'm all for that. If we're
> looking at a major re-design, I think it makes sense to state the
> goals (and deficiencies with the current site) here on this list, as
> well as any eventual proposals, and also asses whether we've achieved
> the desired ROI for our previous redisings (or why this time will be
> different). The case studies are a great example of improvements to
> the site that are relatively non-invasive.
>
> > If the proposal here is just to add new pages you shouldn't run into
> this issue, but the "design and content changes" could cause problems. We
> should be able to mitigate by applying any content changes independently
> from design changes. I'd be happy to advise on this if it's a concern.
> >
> > Also, regarding an IO Connectors page, note that we do already have [1].
> If we add a new page it should be deconflicted with that one.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Brian
> >
> > [1] https://beam.apache.org/documentation/io/built-in/
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 7:34 PM Brittany Hermann <he...@google.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> We have exciting news, we will be kicking off the Beam website redesign
> on Monday which will include design and content changes, adding an about
> Beam page, adding an IO connectors page, adding AI/ML page, carousel for
> case studies (Beam model graph design), and adding about Beam page.
> >>
> >> If you would like to help out with this redesign, please reach out
> directly to me, we'd be happy to have a few more eyes!
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Brittany Hermann
>

Re: Beam Website Redesign

[Robert Bradshaw <ro...@google.com>]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 11:32 AM Brian Hulette <bh...@google.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Brittany,
>
> Some previous efforts to revamp/redesign the beam website ended up being very challenging to merge. The developers worked on a branch which inevitably had conflicts with changes to website content that happened in parallel on Beam's master branch.

+1

It's also not clear what is being "kicked off" on Monday. If it's a
question of adding/evolving some pages, I'm all for that. If we're
looking at a major re-design, I think it makes sense to state the
goals (and deficiencies with the current site) here on this list, as
well as any eventual proposals, and also asses whether we've achieved
the desired ROI for our previous redisings (or why this time will be
different). The case studies are a great example of improvements to
the site that are relatively non-invasive.

> If the proposal here is just to add new pages you shouldn't run into this issue, but the "design and content changes" could cause problems. We should be able to mitigate by applying any content changes independently from design changes. I'd be happy to advise on this if it's a concern.
>
> Also, regarding an IO Connectors page, note that we do already have [1]. If we add a new page it should be deconflicted with that one.
>
> Thanks!
> Brian
>
> [1] https://beam.apache.org/documentation/io/built-in/
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 7:34 PM Brittany Hermann <he...@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> We have exciting news, we will be kicking off the Beam website redesign on Monday which will include design and content changes, adding an about Beam page, adding an IO connectors page, adding AI/ML page, carousel for case studies (Beam model graph design), and adding about Beam page.
>>
>> If you would like to help out with this redesign, please reach out directly to me, we'd be happy to have a few more eyes!
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Brittany Hermann

Re: Beam Website Redesign

[Brian Hulette <bh...@google.com>]

Hi Brittany,

Some previous efforts to revamp/redesign the beam website ended up being
very challenging to merge. The developers worked on a branch which
inevitably had conflicts with changes to website content that happened in
parallel on Beam's master branch.

If the proposal here is just to add new pages you shouldn't run into this
issue, but the "design and content changes" could cause problems. We should
be able to mitigate by applying any content changes independently from
design changes. I'd be happy to advise on this if it's a concern.

Also, regarding an IO Connectors page, note that we do already have [1]. If
we add a new page it should be deconflicted with that one.

Thanks!
Brian

[1] https://beam.apache.org/documentation/io/built-in/

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 7:34 PM Brittany Hermann <he...@google.com>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> We have exciting news, we will be kicking off the Beam website redesign on
> Monday which will include design and content changes, adding an about Beam
> page, adding an IO connectors page, adding AI/ML page, carousel for case
> studies (Beam model graph design), and adding about Beam page.
>
> If you would like to help out with this redesign, please reach out
> directly to me, we'd be happy to have a few more eyes!
>
>
> --
>
> Brittany Hermann
>