2016/homepage

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2016 homepage is a project to refine the IndieWebCamp wiki's homepage or redesign it altogether.

Contents 1 Why 2 Non-goals 3 Issues 4 Examples 5 Participants 6 Previously 6.1 2016-06-04 to 2016-07-04 6.2 2011 to 2016-06-03 7 See Also

Why

Because we can improve the site homepage! For example, make it responsive and accessible to more generations.

Non-goals

Note: we are not trying to redesign the whole site. Just the homepage and its content.

Issues

Please add any new issues here:

• https://github.com/indieweb/wiki/issues

Past issues:

• gRegor Morrill: Suggestion: a graphic for "Getting Started" on the homepage could be good - similar size as the heart icon on there. See discussion https://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2016-06-10#t1465582107200
  • Tantek Çelik incorporated into https://github.com/indieweb/wiki/issues/29
• Kartik Prabhu: Suggestion: put "home, getting started, discuss, FAQ, search" in some main navigation bar on the top
  • Tantek Çelik "home" is already the logo, getting started & discuss & FAQ are already in the sidebar, search is already on top. I don't see anything to do here.

Examples

Some examples to look at of nice homepages (ideally of active creator-centric communities)

Community website home pages (that are more than just a single project)

• ... still looking for good examples of such

Project-specific examples of nice homepages:

• http://habariproject.org/en/
  • Tantek Çelik This one has some nice appeal without seeming too marketingy.
• http://unhosted.org/
  • Tantek Çelik something "off" about it, look very 1990s / geeky
• http://jekyllrb.com/
  • Tantek Çelik bit of a mess, too much CLI nonsense to be friendly to generations
• ...

Participants

If you wish to actively help with this project, please list yourself here and be reasonably (e.g. daily) available on IRC

• Tantek Çelik - have been copy-editing the homepage (simplifying) and doing some layout/style tweaks for consumability. See July 4-5 changes for example.
• Shane Becker
• Kyle Mahan
• ...

Previously

2016-06-04 to 2016-07-04

Homepage after Mediawiki theme switch at 2016 IndieWeb Summit, but before heavy curation and redesign on and right after 2016-07-04:

Notable changes:

• new logo
• switch to Mediawiki default "Vector" skin

2011 to 2016-06-03

Previous homepage design from 2011 to 2016-06-03:

See Also

• 2016
• 2016/newskin
• wiki/redesign - Previous IndieWebCamp 2014 sprint effort to redesign the wiki. Incomplete.