Website Rework v2

[paul]

The need to professionalize our operaton.org web presence becomes more relevant, as we grow as a project and community.

The first website iteration was about telling everyone, that we forked Camunda 7 as a community project, the second iteration about getting the content and the message right. The now proposed third iteration is about creating a design that is more appealing to interested technical and non-technical Operaton users, as well as revisiting the content and improving on it.

The main idea of the new website proposal

• Friendlier: more colors, more appealing design
  • More creative (visual) elements
  • More positive formulated text (e.g. (“Operaton is the next generation…” instead of “It inherited its source code from the legacy of Camunda”)
• Adress non-technical users more (aka. information for decison makers) → restructuring of the content (e.g. compare the current feature section with the mockup feature section)
• Add more “Call to actions”, to get people to interact with the page and click around
• Improve the usage of the first screen: most important content up top, everything visible at a glance
• Simplify and new focus with the navigation bar

Take a look

Words can only say so much: Take a look at the figma prototype

We want your feedback

@kthoms and I took some time to create a first draft. Some things have to be finalized, but this is the perfect time for some community feedback. What do you think? What do you miss?

[kthoms]

Thanks for the credits, but the initiative and work is all your achievement and hard work. I only gave some feedback which you already implemented. I really like the new draft. Would be great to advance here soon.

[javahippie]

I really like the design, kudos to you two! Would this be a chance to try and define a color palette which should be assiciated with Operaton?

[paul]

I think so too. We should get the branding locked in for the 1.0 release.

[Julian]

Another Idea for a color palette:

[paul]

Thank you for the suggestion.

I stayed away from a (dark) blue hue, to avoid looking like a boring law business.

Would you prefer a blue color in general over the light magenta/cyan from my design?

[Julian]

Yes, the magenta/cyan palette definitely gives me more of a “fancy lifestyle product” vibe. I’m not sure it has to be blue though. Blue feels like the safe, default choice (and I get why you’d call it boring) for a product like Operaton.

[kthoms]

I’m fine with any color palette, as long as they have a consistent theme with colors that suite to each other. I’m no expert here.

Concerning the style I like what Paul created.

[paul]

[Julian]

hi paul, thanks! I like it!

[paul]

Alrighty, how do we want to review the text content of the redesign?

I changed a significant portion and would advice for at least one review.

Would anyone like to contribute? I can provide the rendered site in a zip package, if you don’t want to check it out (it can be run locally with docker)

[Julian]

Is it all in the service-providers branch? I can make a review.

[paul]

Yes, indeed. That would be great, thanks!

[Julian]

Btw it’s looking like this on my MacBook (with Dark Mode enabled). I guess this is not intended?