Re: Main page: about us

["Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders(at)acm(dot)org>]

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> > I wrote:
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> > > > The main page (www.postgresql.org/) no longer states anywhere
> > > > except in the top banner graphic what exactly PostgreSQL *is*.
> > > > ...
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> > Joshua D .Drake replied:
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> > > I don't agree. Most people know what PostgreSQL is. People will
> > > also not likely "fall" upon us.
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> > I stand by my assertion: the main page should absolutely say
> > what Postgres is. Take a look at what other .org projects have
> > as the first text on their pages:
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> I am not disagreeing with that :) I am saying we shouldn't use the nice 
> big box to do it. Not to mention our site does say it... right at the 
> top on the right hand side.
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> http://www.postgresql.org/
> "The world's most advance open source database."
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> So what is the problem? ;0

According to the "Web Style Guide", Second Edition the tag line should 
be closer to the logo.  :-)

That is; in a more prominent position so the first time visitor knows 
right off what the site is ( about ).

For the left-to-right reader it is not visually _there_.

This is not to say I don't like the site ( and I am not a professional 
designer ) but that it doesn't exactly fit this (WSG) guide/research.

I had never noticed this until this thread came up.  I was always 
looking for the section; docs, downloads, warm-fuzzy's; I needed not 
looking at the site.

What could, IMHO, look really neat is a tag-line under the logo/header 
area but above the menu bar.  I was really taken with humorous tag line 
that floated through a few months ago.

"Huge database power for peanuts."  or was it "Mammoth database power 
for peanuts." ( Josh? )


Rod
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> > Amen to that. We could certainly be using our screen real estate more
> > effectively as well: see www.python.org for a good example. There's
> > more I could say about the page, but I want to keep this thread focused
> > on getting some "who we are" text back on the main page, as soon as 
> > possible.
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> See above ;)
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> Joshua D. Drake
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