So far, with the
exception of Mike Taylor and Mark Johnson, I have been a bit disappointed with
the feedback on the EPIC home page prototype? Does the
absence of feedback mean you 1) love it, 2) dont have time to look at it or
3) still formulating a response?
I am also hoping
people are not waiting to provide feedback during our conference call next
week. IMHO, we need to be better at using public mailing list or
bugzilla entries to document feedback, so we are viewed as being more
transparent. Also, if we wait until next week for feedback we have
essentially slowed the project down until the meeting. Therefore,
if you do have feedback, please provide it as soon as
possible.
If we dont get
feedback we will proceed with making the current prototype the home
page. To make it easier and more transparent, I have also opened a
bug to
collect feedback. Please respond to the bug or on this e-mail
list.
Thanks
Ian
.
From:
phoenix-epic-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:phoenix-epic-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ian Skerrett
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:20
PM
To: 'The EPIC component of
Phoenix'
Subject: RE: [phoenix-epic-dev] EPIC
Homepage Prototype
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 Id like to try
to do it before the conference starts. Let me know if this is okay
with people.
Thanks
Ian
From:
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[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,
Ive been working for the past few weeks on a new prototype of the EPIC
homepage that Id 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.
Weve 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]