Suggestions about Homepage

[PureKrome]

❤️ the new look 👍

I do have 2 thoughts about the communication of the product, on the homepage.

GOAL: Have an utter noob (cough like me cough) spend 5 seconds looking at the page and going "Ahhhh!!! I get it!".

CURRENTLY: Too much text. IMO, doesn't explain the product in <= 5 seconds.

Title / Catch phrase / Sales pitch / whatever the first line a person reads.

PROBLEM 1: It's not specific enough
SUGGESTION 1: change it / make it specific

Whatever the text says (enable? enabling? .. ?? ) it tells the USER what it means to them in plain, simple, english.

I still don't see any quick visual 'gotcha'

PROBLEM 2: too much text after that..
SOLUTION 2:
a) Shrink the image with the fire and sharp (and that blurb) (to make more realestate above the fold
b) Then add an animated gif under with each browser and it showing some simple .NET dev with autocomplete, etc (and have a little watermark in the corner with the name of the Editor => vim, atom, whatever.. (now that we have more space to use..)

CONCLUSION

• Make me read one line only.
• Make me see this stuff in action .. in 10-20 seconds and go 'AHH! GOTCHA'.

UPDATE / EDIT:

What can we do, now?

• Discuss this idea, in this thread.
• Post animated gif's for the Editor you use or are developing on.
• Come up with a consensus ... then I (or anyone) can create a PR.

now, have a sloth.

[akoeplinger]

👍, had the same thoughts when looking at the new page. Like I said on jabbr, I feel like the "We say yes!" section doesn't really convey what Omnisharp is about (the middle section about OWIN/Azure seems particularly unrelated).

Love the suggestion about a gif with Omnisharp in action.

[Mpdreamz]

Absolutely! This is step one from which we can grow further 😄

I hear you on the above fold needs less logo and more video/animated gif but we need to have that content which we do not at moment.

As far as I'm concerned the whole screen estate now taken up by the logo should be seen as placeholder for a carrousel of video's or animated gifs showcasing the different integrations. Our logo is not that important 😄

I personally like the "Cross Platform .NET development!" better then "Enabling .NET development in the editor of your choice". The former is spoken from a position of strength where the latter feels more meh. If we have more visual content both the logo and catchphrase will be a crapload smaller.

I quite like the "We say yes!" and the "Here's how you can too" flow as well to be honest though.

Also not a fan of changing the icons to animated gifs, to much visual noise. (although we could incorporate them into hover states).

The current behaviour of having modals containing the setup information is also less then ideal I would like to work towards a setup as envisioned here: #5 (comment)

But current state is as far as I got yesterday.PR's welcome! 👍

[PureKrome]

logo should be seen as placeholder for a carrousel of video's or animated gifs

👍

I personally like the "Cross Platform .NET development!"

I agree that it's nice .. maybe I need to see what it looks like with the animated . I just though that it didn't link to an editor/editors obviously enough.