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From: Matt Pavlovich <mattrpav@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 14:40:58 -0500
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@tbish Good point. We'll want to bring NMS, CMS, etc along for sure.


On 12/15/16 2:21 PM, Timothy Bish wrote:
> On 12/15/2016 02:08 PM, Matt Pavlovich wrote:
>> @tbish.. haha.  Yeah, the Karaf site can be a bit much, but the use 
>> of color and pictures is good.. lot of other popular open source 
>> projects have similar layouts.. spring.io, etc.
>>
>> @clebert- IMO the plain apache.org is pretty bland. Prolly one step 
>> up from openbsd.org level blandness ;-) The current Artemis docs have 
>> nice l&f. I agree w/ clean site, but I think we should shoot for 
>> better font usage and at least an updated logo.
>>
>> A nice logo that looks good as a laptop sticker, backpacks, t-shirts, 
>> etc seems to be attainable.
>>
>> Others to consider:
>> wicket.apache.org
>> spark.apache.org
>> cassandra.apache.org (meh on the font, but clean look, good use of 
>> font face and font color)
>> mesos.apache.org
>> couchdb.apache.org (less karaf'sh, simple layout. good font faces and 
>> logo)
>>
>> -Matt
>
> Keep in mind that ActiveMQ has several subprojects (multiple brokers, 
> multiple clients) so the site design and layout needs to scale along 
> with the subprojects
>
>
>>
>> On 12/15/16 1:40 PM, Clebert Suconic wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Timothy Bish <tabish121@gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 12/15/2016 12:11 PM, Matt Pavlovich wrote:
>>>>> +1 website needs to be updated and will to assist.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd also throw out there kafka.apache.org and karaf.apache.org as 
>>>>> design
>>>>> concepts to consider as well.
>>>>>
>>>> The Kafka one isn't bad, the Karaf site make me feel like I need to 
>>>> contact
>>>> someone from sales to get a trial license.
>>> LOL
>>>
>>> I think Karaf and Kafka have too much of their project's personality
>>> to bring it as a template.
>>> I was looking for a plain template. qpid is very clean. the main
>>> apache.org is also a very good example.
>>
>>
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