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[Marcos Chaparro <nitrousnrg@xxxxxxxxx>]

It looks much better IMO. It doesn't need to be an entire website redesign,
just a nice and inviting frontpage like you did.

Thanks

Marcos

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski <
tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 20.06.2015 02:53, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> >  Marcos Chaparro has added a screenshot to the wikipedia entry on KiCad:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KiCad#/media/File:KiCad_3D_with_IDF.png
> Hi all,
>
> Why don't we make a simple front page before the stable release, that
> doesn't scare people away?
>
> The wiki we have now under kicad-pcb.org provides a lot of extremely
> useful information, in particular for developers, but IMHO it's far too
> much for the front page - which should present a brief (3-4 sentences)
> description, basic features, links to download and a donate button.
>
> Unix command line on the front page of the project, just as we have now,
> is IMHO a straight road to make people think Kicad is "for hackers only"
> and drop our stuff without even trying it...
>
> I recently was shown Bootstrap, a very easy framework for making nice
> looking webpages (even someone as ignorant in web development as myself
> could do something that looks like a web page with it). What would you
> say about redesigning the Kicad front page (with links to tutorials,
> Wiki, etc.) so that it lets people quickly discover the features of
> Kicad and download it easily?
>
> Example design (~50 mins to create, with images) here:
> http://twlostow.web.cern.ch/twlostow/www_demo/
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
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