From:
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[mailto:phoenix-epic-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ian Skerrett
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:29 AM
To: 'The EPIC component of Phoenix'
Subject: RE: [phoenix-epic-dev] EPIC Homepage Prototype
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) don’t 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 don’t 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
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From:
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[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
I’d 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,
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]