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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

+1.  I like it.  We should definitely hide the scarey command line stuff
and usage statistics from the front page.

On 7/13/2015 8:45 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski 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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