Thoughts about our website

[lars . sonchocky-helldorf]

Hi dear GNUsteppers,


I lately came across a website which impressed me by its usefulness and 
simplicity:

https://www.qemu.org


It impressed me with its clearness and to the point information: you can see 
everything important at a glance:

On the top there are the most important links (Download, Support, Contribute, 
Docs, Wiki, Blog), followed by a big logo and title as well as a one sentence 
description of the project.

Then follows a section of three Screenshots, which each show a certain aspect 
of QEMU in detail.

And finally there is a section "Latest releases“ at the bottom, showing the 
latest available releases.


This is all visible at first glance right on the homepage, which is important 
today in the times of short attention spans. Of course there are links to more 
detailed information on subpages. 


I propose now that we learn from the concepts and ideas of QEMU’s website.


We could, for instance reduce the copy text on the homepage to just:


GNUstep is a [free software](-> Link to fsf.org or gnu.org) implementation of 
[Apple’s Cocoa Frameworks](-> Link to Cocoa Documentation at Apple) (formerly 
[NeXT's OpenStep](-> Link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep )) for 
[Application Development](-> Link to Developer subpage at gnustep.org).

GNUstep can be used to create a desktop environment. (Here we could place a 
link to a reference implementation)

GNUstep is not Window Maker and [Window Maker is not GNUstep](-> Link to 
https://www.windowmaker.org/docs/wings.html ).


Then I would propose to follow the Concept of the QEMU homepage closely: 

show three recent screenshots, ideally with theming running on various OSes 
including Windows. Short explanation of what it shows below.


All this followed by I recent releases section and at the very bottom the legal 
stuff like imprint, link to bug reporter and such stuff.


This is just my proposal, I am open for discussion, so let’s discuss this (also 
since we are on discuss-gnustep@gnu.org here). The more involvement the better, 
I am not saying my ideas are perfect or such, I post those to get the ball 
rolling towards a better GNUstep Homepage!


Kind regards,

        Lars