Re: Lets lets add a home page!
Reply #49 –
Yes, I'd put a description and the download button at the "top", something like the attachment maybe.
But the general look is very :+1:!!
Re: Lets lets add a home page!
Reply #50 –
If I get a moment this week, I'll try to do a couple of layout options to see if we like something best.
Re: Lets lets add a home page!
Reply #51 –
I do like the design, and I agree with eman, we need more text.. It's currently a good info for developers, however the "normal" user needs to be the focus.
Some recommendations:
1) What is ElkArte?
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We do have supercool features such as Post by Email, mentioning users, notifications, likes and all that cool stuff you may already know from the common social networking platforms.. Blablabla.. Wanna test ElkArte yourself? register an account on elkarte.net community forum.
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ElkArte is a comepletely free software, licensed as open source under BSD-3clause Blablabla..
4) Infos for developers / contibutors
Want to get involved in developing ElkArte? We are an open source project and community that encourages others to help! Join us at our space on GitHub. we use common standards such as jquery, unit-testing and travis build service to reduce the amount of bugs.. our software is OOP and follows strict MVC standards (with link to our docs @ github wiki)...
Not too much infos, just a short "spot" for those sections to to arouse the user's interest.
Re: Lets lets add a home page!
Reply #52 –
Not sure about the mass of green with white text. Thinking it would maybe be easier for people to deal with if the other way around. Maybe try both and get feedback?
Re: Lets lets add a home page!
Reply #57 –
Feel free to work on it. Wasn't aware anyone wanted any real changes, so I haven't touched it for a while. There's one function in the index file that pulls from the github api that will likely need to be cached. Api only allows so many connections before hitting their rate limit.
Files attached.
Re: Lets lets add a home page!
Reply #58 –
thank you..
I've modified it a bit and this is the current result, it's based on SSI.php. Hope you like it..
The php function has been replaced with a javascript version. Should be better for the api rate limit, it's now the viewers IP instead of the server ip which will be blocked.