[Lazarus] Reconstructing Lazarus Website 2: the content

[Bee Jay]

On Feb 3, 2010, at 8:16 PM, Klenongan wrote:
> And here's mine, with more 'elegant' touch to it. I use large fonts
> and white overall to make a neutral appearance --as I don't know
> Lazarus' "color"--.

Yes, it look more elegant. It's a nice design, I must say.

> The page uses less text as possible on the front
> page, inspired by Mercurial, VLC, Wordpress website so that new
> visitors wont be overwhelmed by it.

It depends on the target audience. For visitors who already know how  
to get informations from the website, my design indeed look a bit  
overwhelmed as I put almost *everything* important on the first page.  
But for visitors who come for the first time, the lack of information  
would make them less interested because they're pushed to digg around  
the site to get the information they need. I made a compromise by  
putting the important links on the footer bar so they don't scare nor  
bore regular visitors up front, but new visitors would find those  
informations only a scroll-down away. This is also good for the search  
engine scrawler.

We can't compare FPC/Lazarus with some thing that already very  
popular. It's a different case. Wordpress doesn't need to be too  
verbose because virtually anybody on the internet know Wordpress, at  
least ever heard of it once in a while. And their community is a lot  
bigger than ours.

> The image at the front page taken from a National Geography wallpaper
> featuring Cheetah. I cant find any quality image featuring a Cheetah,
> so I use that one. It might be copyright encumbered but feel free to
> use a substitute like screenshot of Lazarus in action, uncopyrighted
> Cheetah image, etc.

I suggest we use our own images. I already asked help from someone on  
the other thread to help us on this.

> The texts are obviously mockup, I just want to show the design and to
> engage others in discussion to this design. Any feedback would be
> appreciated.

Understood. Mine as well. My 2 mockups are intended to show the  
*layout* and content *structure* of the website that I proposed.  
They're not yet touched by any art works (images, colors, fonts, etc).  
They're just the skeleton of the design. I'm not yet discussing about  
the *real* content of it (words, sentences, etc), whether in the main  
page or in the deeper pages.

The things I want to emphasize on my proposal are uniqueness (so we're  
not accused as being plagiat anymore) and newcomers friendly (to guide  
them on their first venture with FPC/Lazarus). The main goal is FPC/ 
Lazarus gets adequate popularity and respect from other developers,  
both who comes from other pascal-variant languages (delphi, etc) and  
other languages (java, c, etc).

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