[MARKETING] Draft Pages for New OFBiz Website

[Nick Rosser-2]

Nice work Sharan!

Agree with Ashish about the white text on grey background. Hard to read.

Would suggest that the site is "full width" (100%) -- we are all getting larger monitors and the trend is for full width with RWD taking care of all other devices / sizes.

Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: Ashish Vijaywargiya [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 3:53 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [MARKETING] Draft Pages for New OFBiz Website

Hello Sharan,

Thanks so much for sharing the template for new website. It looks very good. Thanks Taher and Fernando for your help on this.
I am sharing few points where we can discuss and conclude:

1) If we talk about slider then it has Grey Background and text is written in White and it is hard to read those content. In recent conversation it is discussed that it will be changed with Actual images so probably this point will be taken care at that time.

2) Can we shift "Download OFBiz" block to second position? I think when a
*new* user comes to the page then first he has thoughts in mind like What is OFBiz, What are the features supported by OFBiz, Whether it can be right fit for my business or not. And if user thinks those details convincing one then he can go ahead and download the software. So putting second block to the first position seems more logical to me.

3) Now if we talk about second block: Can we improve the second line? A common architecture ..... This line particularly addresses the interest developer. I think we can phrase a line that says "End User" or all the user. I know it can be tricky one but we can talk like what can be better line that can be used there.

4) Inside Powerful Java Web Framework -> Can we change "sporting" word to "featuring" or may be some other better word.

5) Does this "Mature" word looks good to be used with ERP, specially using it with main heading looks good? I was exploring the usage of this word and landed to this page - http://sentence.yourdictionary.com/mature. Any other word can be used in place of Mature?

6) Please confirm that "Community" link will be navigating user to Mailing List page? And "Users" link will be navigating user to this page - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/IQFk. Please confirm?

I hope my points are valid one and will be helpful to make ofbiz new website more user friendly. Please feel free to ignore any points that you think are not relevant.
Thanks!

--
Kind Regards
Ashish Vijaywargiya
HotWax Systems - est. 1997

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Sharan-F <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone
>
> It's taken a bit longer than I anticipated but I've finally managed to
> put together some draft pages for our proposed new website. (Thanks
> very much to Taher and Fernando who helped get things moving.)
>
> Rather than start completely from scratch, our team selected what we
> think is a nice clean template with a modern look that also includes a
> lot of features such as :
>
> - Responsive
> - Twitter bootstrap integrated
> - Slider functions
> - CSS animation
> - Grid system
>
> We have setup a header format that follows the menu structure that was
> agreed by the community a few months ago. There is also a footer that
> incorporates our links and also the twitter feed.
>
> I've loaded some draft pages onto the wiki as follows
>
> Draft Home Page -
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/61317052/Main
> _Page_Example_Slider1.png?api=v2
>
> Draft FAQ Page -
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/61317052/FAQs
> _Example_Screen.png?api=v2
>
> Draft Downloads Page -
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/61317052/Down
> loads_Example_Screen.png?api=v2
>
> Draft Mailing List Page -
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/61317052/Mail
> ing_List_Example_Screen.png?api=v2
>
> Before we go any further I'm keen to know what the community thinks so
> please take a look and let me have your feedback.
>
> Thanks
> Sharan
>
>
>
>
>
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> Website-tp4681379.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive
> at Nabble.com.
>

[Sharan-F]

Thanks Nick. Feedback noted and will be incorporated.

On the graphic design side - Hotwax have allocated one of their graphic design people (Kenneth Paskett) to help me out - so I'm sure the next website iteration will be a lot better :-)

Thanks
Sharan

[taher]

Hi Sharan,

Please ensure writing the changes to the templates, not the HTML files
directly, and then publish. Maybe we should create a build.xml or
build.gradle to automate publishing the website whenever we make changes.

Taher Alkhateeb

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Sharan-F <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Thanks Nick. Feedback noted and will be incorporated.
>
> On the graphic design side - Hotwax have allocated one of their graphic
> design people (Kenneth Paskett) to help me out - so I'm sure the next
> website iteration will be a lot better :-)
>
> Thanks
> Sharan
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/MARKETING-Draft-Pages-for-New-OFBiz-Website-tp4681379p4681506.html
> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>

[Sharan-F]

Hi Taher

Thanks for the reminder. I'll make sure Kenneth is aware of this too as we start modifying things.

Thanks
Sharan

[Sharan-F]

6) Please confirm that "Community" link will be navigating user to Mailing
List page? And "Users" link will be navigating user to this page -
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/IQFk. Please confirm?

Hi Ashish

I'm sorry I realised that I didn't respond to your question. I'm still thinking and planning the layout of the site, the links and what the pages will look like so I can't confirm this at the moment.

I'll put together what I think will look nice and then bring it back to the community for discussion and feedback.

Thanks
Sharan

[Ashish Vijaywargiya-4]

No problem Sharan. Please take your time. We all are here to help you out
so please feel free to write back as you are in need of some help or
feedback. Thanks!

--
Kind Regards
Ashish Vijaywargiya
HotWax Systems - est. 1997
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashishvijaywargiya1

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Sharan-F <[hidden email]> wrote:

> /6) Please confirm that "Community" link will be navigating user to Mailing
> List page? And "Users" link will be navigating user to this page -
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/IQFk. Please confirm?/
>
> Hi Ashish
>
> I'm sorry I realised that I didn't respond to your question. I'm still
> thinking and planning the layout of the site, the links and what the pages
> will look like so I can't confirm this at the moment.
>
> I'll put together what I think will look nice and then bring it back to the
> community for discussion and feedback.
>
> Thanks
> Sharan
>
>
>
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/MARKETING-Draft-Pages-for-New-OFBiz-Website-tp4681379p4681726.html
> Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>