Re: Netbeans Partners and netbeans.org website

Hello Steve,

Firstly apologies for the very delayed reply -

Steve Fleming wrote:
> 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.

I thought at first that was a typo, but now I understand - you
mean the Plugins section is all about Plugins for the IDE.

> 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 we ought to push this more, and I really like your latter
suggesion - having a 3rd section under Products for Partner Products.
I'll ask the internal marketing team if they agree.

If we did that, it might make sense to remove that original "3rd
parties" page ... ?

> 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.

Ugh, definitely :-(  Badly needs some design help.  I'll hold off on
that until we work out exactly what will happen to the content.

Many thanks for your suggestions, and again, apologies for the slow
reply.

Best Regards,
-- 
Jack Catchpoole
NetBeans/Sun Microsystems
http://www.netbeans.org/