Re: Feedback on new site

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 03:39 AM, Mike Cannon-Brookes wrote:

>> First, everyone should don their flameproof suits right now, since I'm
>> going to be a bit mean...
>
> Suitably donned (and FWIW I think you were tamer than your usual self 
> here
> mate - perhaps you're losing your touch?)
>
Ha! No, sometimes it's rantage, sometimes it's harsh constructive 
criticism, it's a very narrow line ;)

>> 1) While it's nice to see a new site, I think it gives a terrible
>> message that this site is now THE opensymphony.com, with 404's right
>> off the main page, and a rather high number of pages looking rather 
>> out
>> of place. I've fixed those that I could fix, but I'm pretty much
>> working in the dark here
>
> Fixed now? (I think you're meaning the ones in the navbar)
>
Yep, cool.

>
> The JIRA should look pretty similar?
>
It does, the issue is that the navigation seems inconsistent (eg, 
different UI for 'current' selected nav, one is right aligned the other 
left, etc. Small stuff really)

> OK - let's just fix it, I hate prolonged beta cycles. I've now cleared 
> up
> almost all the open issues in JIRA's Website module.
>
Excellent! good motivation for the rest of us to also keep up and fix 
those issues!

> What else needs to be fixed?
> Why is it unprofessional? (IMHO it's a lot more professional than the 
> old
> site :))

My unprofessional comment was about the frontpage news story (which is 
now fixed), and the broken links (also fixed), but I do think that we 
should have our own pages for mailing lists and cvs, since we're split 
across java.net and sf.net. I'll see if I can find time to do these 
myself if nobody else steps up.



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