I was speaking with Maher and I think
there might be some confusion about the prototype for the EPIC home
page.
The prototype for a new EPIC home page can
be found at http://sandbox.eclipseplugincentral.net/proto/proto.php.
We are interested in getting your feedback on the
content and layout. The ‘look, ie the colour, fonts, graphics
still need to be updated. We hope to use a similar ‘look’
to the new Eclipse Live site that we just launched. http://live.eclipse.org
However, this will be done by a graphics company,
so I wanted to get a general consensus on the content before engaging with them
on the graphics.
It would be appreciate if people could
send their feedback on the prototype to the mailing list, so everyone can see
it.
I also think it is appropriate to have a conference
call for the EPIC Council. Can I suggest we schedule at call for
Tuesday May 8 at 7:30amPT/10:30ET? I will be in California for JavaOne, so I’d like to
try to do it before the conference starts. Let me know if this is
okay with people.
Thanks
Ian
From: phoenix-epic-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:phoenix-epic-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Nathan Gervais
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007
1:54 PM
To: 'The EPIC component of Phoenix'
Subject: [phoenix-epic-dev] EPIC
Homepage Prototype
Afternoon all,
I’ve been working for the past few weeks on a new prototype of the EPIC
homepage that I’d like to gather some feedback on. Keep in mind that this
is a prototype. Nothing is set in stone and a lot of the data is made up.
It is NOT a working page.
We’ve received some great feedback on the look and feel that were using
on http://live.eclipse.org
and our plan at the foundation is to bring all of our web properties in line
with a common look and feel. This new prototype for EPIC is a step in that
direction.
Here is a list of the things that we tried to focus on with this new design.
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Better Navigation of Categories
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Less Focus on News, More on Updates
/ New Plugins.
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More Focus on Featured Plugins
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More prominent google ad.
Please visit the prototype here http://sandbox.eclipseplugincentral.net/proto/proto.php
to see it in action.
Any and All feedback is welcome.
This is just the first step in the process.
Nathan Gervais
Web Developer
Eclipse Foundation
[http://www.eclipse.org]