Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

fix(landing): try to pimp the landing page #57

Open
wants to merge 1 commit into
base: source
Choose a base branch
from
Open

fix(landing): try to pimp the landing page #57

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
12 changes: 9 additions & 3 deletions index.liquid
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -10,18 +10,24 @@ layout: landing.liquid
<article>
<h3>Simple</h3>
<p>Cobalt will help you get up and running quickly but scales to handle
your more complex cases</p>
your more complex cases: multiple <b>collections</b>, <b>tagging</b>, <b>categories</b>…</p>
Copy link
Member

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

multiple collections doesn't exist yet. I also feel like tagging and categories are too weak right now (without your index work) to really talk them up.

Copy link
Contributor Author

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Ok, I'm gonna find something else and we'll add tags and categories once indexation for them are done :)

</article>
<article>
<h3>Easy</h3>
<p>Cobalt tries to be no-hassle, from being easy to install, a
workflow-centric command line, to a familiar template language.</p>
workflow-centric command line, the familiar <b>Liquid</b> template language,
to the <b>Markdown</b> support.</p>
</article>
<article>
<h3>Fast</h3>
<p>Written in Rust, Cobalt is blazing fast and allows you to quickly see
<p>Written in <b>Rust</b>, Cobalt is blazing fast even with
<b>sass</b> and <b>syntax highlighting</b>, and allows you to quickly see
Copy link
Member

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Again, can we really say it is fast? How is our sass and syntax highlighting compared to others? For example, I think both are relying on C libraries.

Copy link
Contributor Author

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Yeah this is quite arbitrary but it's what a landing page do :-/ I know you want to be honest, but I can't say that cobalt feels slow neither, it behaves pretty fast to me (until the indexation on tags which is slow in debug, as I said in cobalt-org/cobalt.rs#548). So we're not really lying. That's what marketing is about :-/

Copy link
Member

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Justifications don't need to be on the landing page but we should be able to back them up. Whenever I see a program get posted to Hacker News, or Proggit, it gets shredded by people if the numbers can't be backed up which can then hurt perception.

btw regarding justifications, I've been considering ideas for sharing more information on the claims

  • Sections below the fold
  • Provide details below when hover or select each claim
  • link to pages with more detail

Whichever one we choose, it doesn't have to be in this PR.

Copy link
Contributor Author

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Whenever I see a program get posted to Hacker News, or Proggit, it gets shredded by people if the numbers can't be backed up which can then hurt perception.

Oh, I didn't know that as I don't go there myself. I'll change that.

I think link to pages with more detail is clearer. Section below the fold will make the page too clutter, and on hover seems not really intuitive as there nothing to click, it's not natural to put the mouse hover.

Copy link
Member

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

I think link to pages with more detail is clearer. Section below the fold will make the page too clutter, and on hover seems not really intuitive as there nothing to click, it's not natural to put the mouse hover.

And yet ive seen each of them on company websites :)

Copy link
Member

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

To be clear, Im not defending just finding it amusing the trends in site layout and their problems.

Copy link
Contributor Author

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

And yet ive seen each of them on company websites :)
Since when a company website is a good practice ;-p

the results of your work.</p>
</article>
</div>
<div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 3em;">
<h1><a href="/getting-started" class="button start" style="color: white;
padding: 1em 2em;">Get started now!</a></h1>
Geobert marked this conversation as resolved.
Show resolved Hide resolved
</div>
</div>
</section>