[Gluster-users] Gluster project site revamp update

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Soumya Deb <deb at redhat.com> wrote:
> Here's the staging page: http://code.debs.io/glusterweb/

This looks nice and is a good change from the current look-n-feel. I
wonder if you would consider figuring out how to include the "Try"
(ie. download and experience the functionality for yourself) link in a
manner that is immediately obvious. In other words, the landing page
would thus end up providing the following detail for various persona
of visitors - (a) how to download; install and set-up; (b) what is the
latest release and where is the project release timeline; (c) any
specific social media links relevant to the project; (d) how to get
involved; (e) where does the community get together.

> Here's the source code: https://github.com/debloper/glusterweb
>
> Here's some key-factors for the motivation to start anew:
> 1. This is a completely a static site - no server side, or static-site generation involved
> 2. Which means, one only needs to know just about HTML/CSS/JS/Git to start contributing in it
> 3. Which also means, the entry barrier is so low, even student community easily can contribute
> 4. One just needs to fork, edit & push to get a live staging on <username>.github.io/glusterweb
> 5. Managing/maintaining the site becomes trivially easy - so is the code-review (Pull Requests)

I was wondering if you have a set of baseline requirements that you
are designing against. And whether those can also be referenced in
order to provide the commentary/narrative structure to the designs you
are putting up for feedback.

> The setup is such that it plays well with the new URLs to the documentation, blog, code repos etc. makes contribution really easy for everyone and doesn't require much overhead on the devop side as well - it's as WYSIWYG as it gets.




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