The current version of Vanilla does not appear on the site

[deadlight]

Summary

Nowhere in the vanillaframework.io site or the documentation is the current version number of Vanilla stated. This is important information (especially since we give links to the hosted version with "x.x.x" placeholders).

[kwm14]

@deadlight thanks for raising me and @anthonydillon were discussing this point a couple of weeks ago.

I would like to implement something similar to MAAS displaying the latest version in the footer, it would also be good to roll this out on docs.vanillaframework.io also.

[deadlight]

@kwm14 that sounds like a good idea. Perhaps we could enhance the download instructions to give the real URL rather than the "x.x.x" one, too. If we're putting it in the footer then it can be done with a variable to avoid any manual content updating.

[anthonydillon]

I would go one further the highlight the latest version on the homepage as we have a short release cycle.

[kwm14]

@deadlight @anthonydillon 👍

[kwm14]

Discussion

We discussed yesterday instead of putting the version in the footer we will explore putting it in the hero of the site. I will provide a design for @deadlight to reference when building 👍

• Either add a 'Download button' as seen on our Docs or something similar to Bulma (@Caleb-Ellis fav site)

• Alternatively it could be a simple solution of adding the version below the CTA buttons

[kwm14]

Some numbers from Event tracking which could influence the position/arrangement of the versioning.

[kwm14]

Design explorations

Looking at event tracking numbers and how other frameworks display versioning.

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• Removing GitHub repo external link
• Add 'latest version' download button as primary
• 'See the docs' becomes secondary

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• 'See the docs' changes to primary as 66% users click this
• Update 'Vanilla on GitHub' from a link to secondary button
• Latest release shown below buttons in same style as Twitter stream release image

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• Same as above but replacing 'Vanilla on GitHub' to 'Download' as we want more users downloading the framework, currently we're only getting 9% of users clicking it

[kwm14]

Design review

with @spencerbygraves

• the green button on orange isn't great, and makes the white one stand out more, for me anyway
• if docs is already getting lots of clicks, and you want people to download, could we do this...

[kwm14]

Consistency

• Download button on docs.vf.io
• We should reflect the same pattern in both instances

[kwm14]

Design updates

• updates based on feedback
• we will go forward with this design and see how it tests 👍

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