[hibernate-dev] New layout for the website

[Sanne Grinovero]

On 28 September 2017 at 13:11, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:
> Overall the new design looks amazing.  I do agree with Andrea about the
> gold backgrounds - that looks anything but modern and does not match the
> rest of the site design imo.
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> For another iteration... "Getting started" is another group of information
> that is version specific.
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> A minor thing that I can probably change myself somewhere... I very much
> dislike "Your relational databases. Handy."  I'm sure everyone will have an
> opinion like when we discussed "Everything data" refrain.  Some initial
> thoughts (with varying punctuation options):
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>    1. Your relational data.  Objectively.
>    2. Your relational data - objectively
>    3. Object/Relational Mapping
>    4. All your (relational data)base are belong to us - just for fun :)

I love the fun expression in proposal #4 but I think it would be more
effective if we can avoid the usage of parentheses.

"All your data are belong to us" ?

I've also been wondering if we could better exploit the amazing name we have.

"Winter is coming, have your object hibernate safely".

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> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 6:49 AM andrea boriero <andrea at hibernate.org> wrote:
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>> I think the new layout is fine except for the gold background colour of the
>> project names, I really do not like it.
>> What about an opinion from the jboss.org design team?
>>
>> On 26 September 2017 at 17:08, Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Davide D'Alto <davide at hibernate.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > There is a background behind the title, the subtitle, the release
>> > > version and the  "Documentation".
>> > > The end result is that it's hard to understand what's a link or button
>> > > and therefore can be clicked.
>> > >
>> > > I think it would work better without any background colour.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Yes, as you know, I disagree. I think it makes the website more colourful
>> > and the header less empty.
>> >
>> > I think the buttons have a proper style you can't really mix with a
>> simple
>> > background.
>> >
>> > As for the documentation page, I must agree there is maybe a bit too much
>> > of background in the content of the page but it's really not easy to make
>> > it look appealing.
>> >
>> > Note that I just pushed a commit to make the buttons look consistent
>> > everywhere with the icon at the right so that they are more easily
>> > recognizable. I hope it helps a bit.
>> >
>> >
>> > > I like the documentation page, I was surprised that we didn't use the
>> > > same approach for the releases page.
>> > >
>> >
>> > We might discuss that later. For now, it's basically the same pages Yoann
>> > pushed this morning, just a bit more colourful.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Guillaume
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