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Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:05:19 -0800
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First thought: "noooooooooooooooo!" ;)

Second thought: As ACS is a fairly major project and not a CI engine =
(sorry, but=85), our website has three purposes:
a) Get operational folks to want to try ACS
b) Get developers interested in contributing to ACS
c) Educate others about why ACS is so #@$@#$ awesome and they (or their =
teams, or their companies) should be using it.
(feel free to expand/contrast on this)

So, with that said - =46rom my experience, the stereotypical Twitter =
Bootstrap sites do not say that to me. They say "this is a site that was =
quickly set up by a developer so he could get back to something else." =
There's not a single graphic element on inria's site - except for 2 =
buttons. Not pretty by any means, IMHO. I'm reminded of Ruby projects or =
Github projects who think 15 lines in their README.md is AWESOME for =
their project's website.

Take a look at the other cloud provisioning project's site. Both looks =
better and does a better job of communicating what it is.

Here's a few sites I've seen recently that I consider "pretty" and =
"modern" sites:

https://jawbone.com/up - admittedly complicated
https://www.meldium.com/ - probably bootstrap based, but at least looks =
good IMHO
http://www.qualtrics.com/
http://couchdb.apache.org/ - Just pulled it up while looking through the =
ASF project list - not bad!

One thing that we should probably do - look at the websites of other =
players in the space - OnApp, Eucalyptus, VMWare, etc. Our site has to =
play at that level, not a website built for an engineer looking for a CI =
platform (sorry, but=85)

I realize we need a site that's easy to manage and update, but let's see =
if we can balance that with something that people remember.

John

On Mar 5, 2013, at 5:11 AM, Sebastien Goasguen <runseb@gmail.com>
 wrote:

> Hi, thinking about website designs, I ran into this one:
>=20
> https://ci.inria.fr
>=20
> It's simple, yet modern.
>=20
> I think something along this line with CloudStack logos and some good =
thinking of categories would work well.
>=20
> -sebastien

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