What Eclipse does... Fwd: Re: [nbmarketing] Netbeans Partners and netbeans.org website

Hi Folks,

I thought you might find the attached picture of eclipse.org interesting.
At the top level of Eclipse's website is a navigation link to Community.
Under community you receive a 2nd navigation menu letting you navigate to:

Open Source Plug-ins
Commercial Plug-ins
RCP Applications (this is what Creator corresponds to)

Creator folks are hoping to improve netbeans.org to match the visibility 
Eclipse is
giving to their platform partners.  We will be able to measure the number 
of users
that come to Creator's homepage from netbeans.org.

Thoughts?

- Steve

>Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:32:50 -0700
>To: [email protected]
>From: Steve Fleming <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [nbmarketing] Netbeans Partners and netbeans.org website
>
>Hi Jack,
>
>Thanks for the helpful post. It's good to see that the community has 
>already recognized the need
>and I'm glad a news section may be of interest.
>
>Looking at the website top level navigation bar, under "Products" we 
>present both the
>Netbeans IDE and Netbeans platform.  The next top level navigation bar 
>section after "Products" is
>"Plugins" which maps to the Netbeans IDE product.
>
>My sense is that we should consider a top level navigation bar section 
>"Platform Partners".
>I know the nav bar screen real estate is valuable, but it does look like 
>we have a large number
>of platform partners. We probably should highlight that our platform 
>partners, particularly since Eclipse
>is pushing this angle.  Alternately another approach could be to use the 
>products page and create a 3rd
>top level section "Partner Products".  Thoughts?
>
>I agree the page would benefit from a bit of redesign. Perhaps some sort 
>of table of contents or
>tabular summary at the top of the page since it is quite lengthy.
>
>Thanks,
>Steve
>
>At 07:41 AM 4/27/2005, Jack Catchpoole wrote:
>>Steve Fleming wrote:
>>>I would think many in the Netbeans community would also be interested
>>>in information about other products that have been built using Netbeans 
>>>as a platform.
>>>Information could include both links to products as well as recent news 
>>>about partner products.
>>
>>Mktg team, pls correct me if wrong, but that's exactly what the "Third 
>>Parties" page should do :
>>
>>   http://www.netbeans.org/about/third-party.html#gtable1
>>
>>Needs a bit of a redesign IMO, but AFAIK content is up to date.  No
>>recent news though, that's a nice idea ...
>>
>>There's a link at the top of the page about getting listed there :
>>
>>   http://www.netbeans.org/community/teams/marketing/partner-add.html
>>
>>
>>--
>>Jack Catchpoole
>>NetBeans/Sun Microsystems
>>http://www.netbeans.org/