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Dear Tim,
I have some experience. I'm not a pro, but I think I should be able to do the job. You can have a look at my latest work (my personal website) for a reference:
http://www.michel-kraemer.com/
What do you think? Shall I try my luck?
Any preferences? Colors that should be included (like the purple color in the logo)? Dark theme (like the old site) or light theme?
Cheers,
Michel
Am Montag, 23. März 2015 18:50:29 UTC+1 schrieb Tim Fox:Hello folks,
The current Vert.x 3 web-site contains pretty much all the information,
is a single page, and is functional:
http://vert-x3.github.io/
It's very simple and written using Twitter Bootstrap. Although it does
the job, it looks.... well, how do I put it? A bit boring and a bit
amateurish?
I was wondering if there was anyone with a bit of web-design experience,
nothing fancy required, who would like to take a stab at putting a bit
of lipstick on it?
Just thinking along the lines of, maybe a bit more colour, fonts,
alignments etc, not thinking of any grand redesign.
Anyone interested?
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Not sure we should have the 4 highlight points like we did in the old site or the code example though...
Thanks for pointing me to the right repo!
Not sure we should have the 4 highlight points like we did in the old site or the code example though...
I'm also not sure about the highlight points. In fact, your current draft contains a lot more points. I'll try to come up with an idea for that...
The purple color looks pretty nice IMHO. I was surprised myself how good it fits to the white background and the black font color. I think we should stick to it. Gives it some kind of a unique style.
Regarding the code example: personally, as a programmer I'm always really grateful for short examples on the front page. Either I'm new to the tool and I can immediately see that it's rather easy to use, or I want to create a new project and am looking for a short snippet to copy and paste.
How do we proceed? Should I send you pull requests or should I mirror the site somewhere so that you can preview my changes?
Slight menu issues on android chrome, but I'm being overly picky of an excellent first draft 😉🙌
Sure, here's a screenshot of when the page first loads, followed by a small scroll down. The background of the menu disappears, but not the menu text, and maybe it should start hidden until I click the burger icon top right?
Thanks. Should be fixed now.
Michel
Cool! Works here! Good job 😁
So.. the web-site looks really great.
It's just the kind of site (simple, clear, nice design) I have wanted for a long time, but I didn't have the skills to do it myself.
* Who's using - this is kind of tricky. Unlike Akka, and other projects which have a commercial offering, we don't offer commercial support for Vert.x (yet), so it's not so easy for us to see who is using us, i.e. we don't have a list of contracts we can just look at. However, I do know various companies and users we could ping.
* The actual manual pages linked from the documentation page, e.g. http://michel-kraemer.github.io/web-site/docs/vertx-core/java/index.html - it would be nice to get those using the same stylesheets as the main site so we could have a consistent look and feel throughout.
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Just one minor comment though. Some time ago I came accross the spec from google on their new material design. There is a section for colors:
http://www.google.fr/design/spec/style/color.html#color-color-palette
The purple we've got is nice but kind of darkish. Would you mind trying the purple from MD, it' s a much brighter purple #9C27B0 and sse if it looks better?
All the best,
Stephane
So.. the web-site looks really great.It's just the kind of site (simple, clear, nice design) I have wanted for a long time, but I didn't have the skills to do it myself.
Thanks. You're very much welcome. It was the least I could do for such a great tool and community.* Who's using - this is kind of tricky. Unlike Akka, and other projects which have a commercial offering, we don't offer commercial support for Vert.x (yet), so it's not so easy for us to see who is using us, i.e. we don't have a list of contracts we can just look at. However, I do know various companies and users we could ping.
Sure. I just saw the item in the website's TODO list and thought it would be a great idea. Maybe we can do something like this: we can put some companies that we already know (you could add Fraunhofer for example, the research institute where I'm working J) and maybe a short call like "You want to be listed here? Just contact us!" or something like that.
Of course we should accept large and known companies only (Fraunhofer has about 22.000 employees by the way ^^ and is well known in Europe).
* The actual manual pages linked from the documentation page, e.g. http://michel-kraemer.github.io/web-site/docs/vertx-core/java/index.html - it would be nice to get those using the same stylesheets as the main site so we could have a consistent look and feel throughout.
Sure thing. What do you suggest for the toc on the left hand side? I think we should keep it. It helps jump between sections. Maybe we could do something like the menu here: http://getbootstrap.com/css/ (I mean the one on the right hand side)
What do you think of a 'Our team' section with small avatars and maybe the Twitter handle? Do you even have a core team? For newbies it's really hard to see who's behind the project. Maybe in a separate 'About' page?
Also a good idea. The full-time team is currently small (only 2 people, but we are in the process of hiring 2 more), but we have a lot of contributors.
It would be nice to have everyone who has contributed to be listed (if they want).
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if you want to change the documentation style : please use the asciidoctor stylesheet factory : https://github.com/vert-x3/web-site/tree/initial-work/asciidoctor-stylesheet-factory
Also a good idea. The full-time team is currently small (only 2 people, but we are in the process of hiring 2 more), but we have a lot of contributors.
It would be nice to have everyone who has contributed to be listed (if they want).
We could use the GitHub API to get all contributors to the Vert.x repositories:
On the other hand the Vert.x organisation has many repositories so we would produce a lot of requests. Alternatively we could use this:
Another alternative would be to use 'git log' for example to get all contributors from the local repositories.
Of course we could also go the static route and just insert the avatars and other info in plain HTML.
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looks way better than our previous attempts, I like it.On 26 Mar 2015 at 07:29:16, Michel Krämer (michel....@googlemail.com) wrote:
Now here's a *very very rough* sketch of what the website could look like. I made it in Inkscape in a couple of minutes so don't take it too serious. Just wanted to give a quick impression.
Cheers,
Michel
Am Donnerstag, 26. März 2015 07:16:45 UTC+1 schrieb Michel Krämer:
Dear Tim,
I have some experience. I'm not a pro, but I think I should be able to do the job. You can have a look at my latest work (my personal website) for a reference:
http://www.michel-kraemer.com/
What do you think? Shall I try my luck?
I suppose https://github.com/vert-x3/vert-x3.github.io is the right repo?
Any preferences? Colors that should be included (like the purple color in the logo)? Dark theme (like the old site) or light theme?
Cheers,
Michel
Am Montag, 23. März 2015 18:50:29 UTC+1 schrieb Tim Fox:
Hello folks,
The current Vert.x 3 web-site contains pretty much all the information,
is a single page, and is functional:
http://vert-x3.github.io/
It's very simple and written using Twitter Bootstrap. Although it does
the job, it looks.... well, how do I put it? A bit boring and a bit
amateurish?
I was wondering if there was anyone with a bit of web-design experience,
nothing fancy required, who would like to take a stab at putting a bit
of lipstick on it?
Just thinking along the lines of, maybe a bit more colour, fonts,
alignments etc, not thinking of any grand redesign.
Anyone interested?
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