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From: "Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com>
To: TEC <tecosaur@gmail.com>
Cc: Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>,
	org-mode-email <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Website revamp?
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 12:18:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF-FPGPtrMe+QGs2yo8UvFnuw9iSVVi6c++sXJVA=DUYJ+edgQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875z9y4cma.fsf@gmail.com>

On a large monitor, there's so much space that I think the features
content would best fit underneath a small banner.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 12:12 PM TEC <tecosaur@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks for the feedback!
>
> Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 03.08.2020 12:11, TEC wrote:
> >>
> >> To see how orgmode.org currently appears, see
> >> https://i.imgur.com/XPFfBaB.png
> >
> > Sorry for negative (and maybe discouraging) feedback. I would
> > not mind if you just skip my complains since I am not a
> > contributor to org-mode.
>
> Please, share your thoughts!
>
> > Concerning the screenshot, when first impression, that
> > everything is broken and do not worth reading at all, is over,
> > in my opinion, the text makes much more sense than "innovative"
> > marketing stuff got priority on the demo of the new design. I
> > consider the list of tasks, that org mode could help with, is
> > the most important thing to attract new users. It should just be
> > properly formatted.
>
> Re content for the index page, my current thoughts are:
>  - Some sort of informative introductory paragraph
>  - List of most common applications of org - Note latest version,
>  and when it was released
>
> I also have a styled equivalent of the screenshot on the current
> site.
>
> These things just need to move from my mind, to the page :)
>
> Do let me know if you have any other specific ideas on content for
> the index.
>
> > It seems that new variant is too mobile-centric. On a 24in
> > monitor I expect something more than just a banner. There is
> > plenty of room for brief news related to new releases, for more
> > details of most important features (on the other hand I am
> > against arbitrary scaled screenshots with excessively huge
> > characters in comparison to surrounded text), etc. I am aware
> > that my taste is against of modern design trends.
>
> If you have specific suggestions on how I could smoothly work in a
> better design for the index on the desktop, I'd love to hear them.
> If you could pair any such suggestions with reference to my
> earlier thoughts* on the purpose of each page that will make it
> easier to glimpse your thought process, and how it compares to my
> own.
>
> \* see email in reply to Colin sent on Mon 03 Aug 07:53 UTC
>
> > A couple of remarks unrelated to new look but should be
> > addressed in the case of rework.
> >
> > I am surprised that Emacs is explicitly mentioned only in html
> > head title. The relation should be clear for new visitors.
>
> That's:
>  a) been removed from the head title. I couldn't find a browser
>  which would
>     display the whole thing without chopping it off the last
>     ~third
>  b) going to be mentioned prominently in the body, at least in my
>  current thoughts
>
> > As to installation, I believe that org-mode bundled with Emacs
> > is more than enough for first try. It is a shorter path to
> > become familiar with most prominent features just to start
> > editing of an .org file (or to download a prepared demo .org).
> > Getting the latest stable version could be a next step for the
> > hooked users.
>
> Are you saying that you find the current mention of Emacs in the
> instillation page works well? I'm currently just linking to Emacs.
> Looking at the page though, I think I should make a more prominent
> action to download Emacs.
>
> I love the idea of a demo org file! If anyone would like to help
> out with creating one by sending in contenders / snippets that
> would be brilliant!
>
> Even better - having two or three different demo files based on the use case of
> the new user - e.g. programmer, author, organisation - or something like that.
>


  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-04 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-14 13:55 Website revamp? TEC
2020-07-30 13:00 ` TEC
2020-07-30 13:20   ` Russell Adams
2020-07-30 13:36   ` Amin Bandali
2020-07-30 14:19     ` TEC
2020-07-30 14:47       ` Bruce D'Arcus
2020-07-30 15:53       ` Amin Bandali
2020-07-30 17:22       ` Russell Adams
2020-07-30 17:57         ` TEC
2020-07-30 19:03           ` Russell Adams
2020-08-01  8:15             ` TEC
2020-08-02 18:08               ` TEC
2020-08-03  5:10                 ` Colin Baxter
2020-08-03  5:11                   ` TEC
2020-08-03  7:01                     ` Colin Baxter
2020-08-03  7:53                       ` TEC
2020-08-03  8:03                     ` tomas
2020-08-04  5:54                       ` Eric S Fraga
2020-08-05 10:17                         ` Bo Grimes
2020-08-05 10:26                           ` Eric S Fraga
2020-08-05 10:40                             ` Bo Grimes
2020-08-05 10:43                               ` TEC
2020-08-03 10:54                     ` Gustav Wikström
2020-08-04 15:48                     ` Maxim Nikulin
2020-08-04 15:53                       ` TEC
2020-08-04 16:18                         ` Bruce D'Arcus [this message]
2020-08-04 16:23                           ` TEC
2020-08-04 16:30                             ` Bruce D'Arcus
2020-08-05 11:56                         ` Maxim Nikulin
2020-08-05 12:03                           ` TEC
2020-08-06 11:25                             ` Maxim Nikulin
2020-08-06 11:52                               ` TEC
2020-08-24  7:43                                 ` TEC
2020-08-25 10:28                                   ` Maxim Nikulin
2020-08-25 12:02                                     ` TEC
2020-08-25 15:09                                       ` TEC
2020-08-27 16:09                                   ` Maxim Nikulin
2020-09-01 16:39                                     ` TEC
2020-09-30 16:24                                       ` Maxim Nikulin
2020-08-11 15:24                         ` Maxim Nikulin
2020-08-04 15:53                       ` Bruce D'Arcus
2020-08-04 16:09                         ` TEC
2020-08-04 21:43                       ` Bo Grimes
2020-08-05 15:24                         ` Maxim Nikulin
2020-08-05 16:00                           ` TEC
2020-08-07  5:19                     ` David Rogers
2020-08-04  5:59               ` Eric S Fraga
2020-08-04  6:27                 ` TEC
2020-08-04 20:44                   ` gyro funch
2020-08-24 15:39                   ` Maxim Nikulin
2020-07-30 19:40           ` Scott Randby
2020-09-01 16:44 ` TEC
2020-09-01 18:07   ` Tom Gillespie
2020-09-01 18:11     ` Tom Gillespie
2020-09-02  3:48       ` TEC
2020-09-02  2:59     ` TEC
2020-09-04  9:37   ` Bastien
2020-09-05  9:08     ` Martin Schöön
2020-09-05 10:16   ` Colin Baxter
2020-09-07 17:24     ` TEC
2020-09-07 18:13   ` TEC
2020-09-08  5:41     ` Tom Gillespie
2020-09-08  5:49       ` TEC

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