Syncany website

[binwiederhier]

The Syncany website needs a refresh. We need something simple and easily manageable -- most importantly however, something up-to-date.

Material / stuff to work with:

• Generated GitHub pages site: http://binwiederhier.github.io/syncany/
• Current/old website: https://github.com/syncany/syncany-website

[binwiederhier]

@pimotte You should have commit access to the syncany-website repo. Feel free to commit directly to it.

[pimotte]

I will be picking this up. Of course any and all ideas are welcome, particularly regarding the (visual) design aspect, since that is easily one of my weaker points.

[binwiederhier]

Here's a CLI tool website; not the prettiest, but there are not many of them...
http://www.sysdig.org/

[binwiederhier]

I've adjusted your template in syncany/syncany-website@5a337a7 -- as we discussed on IRC.
Also: I downloaded the bak one template and adjusted it in syncany/syncany-website@afb2245.

What do you think?

[pimotte]

Both LGTM (at least the top of bak one). I'm not very picky design-wise as long as the page as a whole looks consistent. I agree with your point about it being a little text focused. If we want to go more towards a "hip" design we will probably need to cut down on a lot of text.

[binwiederhier]

I've done some more work: syncany/syncany-website@80b2fc9

What do you think?

To Do:

• The examples are missing, the preview images must be done after the examples
• The "instructions" panel is still missing, it should be somewhere below "download"
• The responsiveness (mobile/smartphone site) needs to be done
• The the CSS and the HTML must be slimmed down; there are many things in there from the template that are not needed anymore
• The CSS class names are off

[binwiederhier]

I think it's done. At least available for public review: http://www.syncany.org/new/
Comments?

[binwiederhier]

After reflecting a bit (= sleeping), I think we might need a section with some prominent Q&A. Like

Q&A 

Q: So it's a command line tool then?
A: For now, but not for long, check out the (roadmap)

Q: What do you mean by any kind of storage?
A: ...

I think it's not enough to link to the FAQ, because people will not click. When you don't know what Syncany is, you won't know after you've seen the website.

Thoughts?

[pimotte]

Seems like a good idea.
Possible questions:
Do you support storage type X?
At this time we our focus is on the core and stability. Blahblah...
What should I not use Syncany for?
At the moment, critical files. In general, any situation where the client has little computation power and client-side encryption is not necessary.

In addition, there are two small alignment issues. On my laptop, the "Create" example is slightly higher than the others. On my phone the example-images extend slightly to the right, which creates a white bar of the length of the page (Samsung Galaxy S2, 480 x 800 pixels)

[guitarlum]

Instead of when to not usw syncany I would argue when to use it. Positive
case.

Conditions of the pre alpha should not be part of a general FAQ IMHO.

Best
Steffen
Am 08.04.2014 10:26 schrieb "pimotte" notifications@github.com:

Seems like a good idea.
Possible questions:
Do you support storage type X?
At this time we our focus is on the core and stability. Blahblah...
What should I not use Syncany for?
At the moment, critical files. In general, any situation where the client
has little computation power and client-side encryption is not necessary.

In addition, there are two small alignment issues. On my laptop, the
"Create" example is slightly higher than the others. On my phone the
example-images extend slightly to the right, which creates a white bar of
the length of the page (Samsung Galaxy S2, 480 x 800 pixels)

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/83#issuecomment-39823205
.

[pimotte]

Second part seems reasonable. First part also, but depending on how big this FAQ will be, i think it wouldn't be a bad idea to have both "Why should I use Syncany?" and "Why shouldn't I use Syncany?". Being honest about disadvantages ensures that people attempt to use it for a usecase for which it is actually fit. http://sparkleshare.org/ does something similar.

[binwiederhier]

I'd keep the FAQ on the website reeeaally small (2-10 word answers); with a reference to the wiki FAQ.

Another (very practical) problem: The b/w pattern will be broken; or "Contact / Contributing" has to go black. Any solutions?

[binwiederhier]

It just went live. Without the FAQ.
Bam! http://www.syncany.org/

I cannot reproduce Pim's issue. Reducing the window size to 480px doesn't create this issue in my browser. I'll close this for now. Pim, you'll have to find it yourself ...