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Textpattern's face to the public
textpattern.com is where Textpattern starts for curious users who’ve heard about the platform.
We can do more to promote what makes our platform special; focus entirely on its core concepts (with tighter wording as attention spans are low). Lean and clean, like Textpattern.
How does everyone feel about revisiting the homepage design?
Personally I’d like to:
- drop the animations and sketch diagrams; they do little to add to our message, and feel out of place with the rest of the site.
- promote languishing content in the about section instead (its excellent :)
- make more of the typography and text patterns (no pun intended)
The top of the page is critical; whatever we place there has to juggle many needs. I have an ideas for this, but first: comments, please!
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I’m always open to ideas, but have very little input on .com. That’s 100% Phil Wareham so you’ll need to win him over!
I actually like the sketches because they have a lovely homemade aesthetic, which echoes the fact that Txp is for people who like to craft things, rather than making stuff the same as everybody else. And it has throwbacks to Dean’s original “carver”.
Not married to the animation, but it is quirky.
By all means put some ideas out.
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giz wrote #340216:
textpattern.com is where Textpattern starts for curious users who’ve heard about the platform.
How does everyone feel about revisiting the homepage design?
Revisiting can only but be beneficial: Good to re-examine, gain new insights, and fine tune the message.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
…. texted postive
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Yes, I’m with you. I share your general sense that there’s potential for visual modernisation and more clarity in the messaging, and your initial suggestions sound good to me.
The sketch-puns and the underlying ‘craft’ notion make me smile more than the animations and sketches themselves. I’d prefer to see adaptability and versatility rather than homegrown as the message. The lone carver was fun in its day, but the actual image never transported the idea very well.
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jakob wrote #340219:
I’d prefer to see adaptability and versatility rather than homegrown as the message.
Works for me. I’m crap at visuals, so anyone with skillz, let’s see it.
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Thanks all; I’ll see what I can do.
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