2016/homepage

2016 homepage is a project to refine the IndieWebCamp wiki's homepage or redesign it altogether that was completed and launched in 2016.

Why

Because we can improve the site homepage! For example, make it responsive and accessible to more generations.

Note: we are not trying to redesign the whole site. Just the homepage and its content.

Please add any new issues here:

Past issues:

gRegor Morrill: Suggestion: a graphic for "Getting Started" on the homepage could be good - similar size as the heart icon on there. See discussion https://indiewebcamp.com/irc/2016-06-10#t1465582107200
- Tantek Çelik incorporated into https://github.com/indieweb/wiki/issues/29
Kartik Prabhu: Suggestion: put "home, getting started, discuss, FAQ, search" in some main navigation bar on the top
- Tantek Çelik "home" is already the logo, getting started & discuss & FAQ are already in the sidebar, search is already on top. I don't see anything to do here.

Some examples to look at of nice homepages (ideally of active creator-centric communities)

Community website home pages (that are more than just a single project)

Project-specific examples of nice homepages:

http://habariproject.org/en/
- Tantek Çelik This one has some nice appeal without seeming too marketingy.
http://unhosted.org/
- Tantek Çelik something "off" about it, look very 1990s / geeky
http://jekyllrb.com/
- Tantek Çelik bit of a mess, too much CLI nonsense to be friendly to generations
...

Generic wireframe examples:

which one of the two possible websites are you currently designing?

If you wish to actively help with this project, please list yourself here and be reasonably (e.g. daily) available on IRC

Tantek Çelik - have been copy-editing the homepage (simplifying) and doing some layout/style tweaks for consumability. See July 4-5 changes for example.
Shane Becker
Kyle Mahan
...

Homepage after Mediawiki theme switch at 2016 IndieWeb Summit, but before heavy curation and redesign on and right after 2016-07-04:

Notable changes:

Previous homepage design from 2011 to 2016-06-03: