Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 52378 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2010 20:47:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 11 Jul 2010 20:47:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 98065 invoked by uid 500); 11 Jul 2010 20:47:33 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 97777 invoked by uid 500); 11 Jul 2010 20:47:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 97769 invoked by uid 99); 11 Jul 2010 20:47:32 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:47:32 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests= X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received: from [140.211.11.9] (HELO minotaur.apache.org) (140.211.11.9) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with SMTP; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:47:29 +0000 Received: (qmail 52350 invoked by uid 99); 11 Jul 2010 20:47:07 -0000 Received: from localhost.apache.org (HELO [192.168.0.7]) (127.0.0.1) (smtp-auth username nslater, mechanism plain) by minotaur.apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:47:07 +0000 Subject: Re: CouchDB brand identity and design of couchdb.apache.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Noah Slater In-Reply-To: X-Noah: Awesome Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:47:04 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <32E86459-FA79-4CED-92F3-B88373914971@apache.org> References: <6307C060-1571-44F2-A1DF-1815F460B665@gmail.com> <1C09DD07-CAA2-455D-9E45-27341C160A34@dionne-associates.com> <793380B5-6604-4F2B-823D-77960D9EDAF1@gmail.com> <1B450E8B-99CA-4571-ADF7-6FFD3F7572D1@gmail.com> <0104FEBF-82F3-4719-9959-380FC66C416C@tumbolia.org> To: user@couchdb.apache.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org On 11 Jul 2010, at 20:13, Filipe David Manana wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Avi Flax wrote: >=20 >> I'm no artist myself, but I do a fair bit of diagramming, and when I >> read your description, this popped into my head: >>=20 >> = http://aviflax.com/images/CouchDB%20Website%20Diagram%20Study%20A,%2011%20= July%202010,%20Avi%20Flax.png Holy crap. BRAIN ASPLODE. There's an awful lot going on there. I understand that it is making a = point, but I think that amount of visual clutter on the front page would = be terribly distracting. > I like most the second, simpler, version. However I think this 2nd = version > must mention REST somewhere. Perhaps instead of "JSON via HTTP", you = could > replace with "RESTful HTTP + JSON" or something similar. If we're going to have so much clutter, we may as well at least outline = SOMETHING to do with the details of CouchDB. Heh, heh.=