Complete index page

[AesaraB]

Why have a landing page?

The landing page will:

• Provide the first impression of the MyPaint project for many first-time visitors.
• Act as a gate to the rest of the website for recurring visitors.

Who will visit the landing page?

Everyone who visits the MyPaint website will probably visit the landing page. The MyPaint website may be relevant for the following audiences:

1. Non-users who may be interested in MyPaint
2. People who use MyPaint
3. Developers
4. Organisations with a professional interest in MyPaint

How do we help these people?

Non-users

We need to sell MyPaint to people who don't use it. This means telling them why MyPaint is great, and helping onboard them ASAP.

Suffice to say, increased usage and awareness of MyPaint brings in more interested parties, some of whom may eventually turn into contributors.

Users

Users will either want to download MyPaint, or access one of the pages intended for users:

• Blogs
• User manuals
• Community forums
• Donation page

Developers

Developers will want to use the website as a point of reference when working on the application.

Organisations

Organisations will want to know how to contact us.

[AesaraB]

The landing screen is nice, what with the massive image and all that.

That being said, repeating that for multiple screens feels lazy.

In particular, I'd like a "features" section to be interactive. i.e. users should be able to click on a feature showcase button and have a visual of how it works presented to them.

The socials and contributing sections probably don't need a heroic image accompanying it, but what could keep up with such a powerful image in terms of background, gradients? I'd prefer to use backgrounds that have meaning and context with a painting application.

[AesaraB]

This was a previous draft:

Landing screen

• Beauty by Default
• MyPaint v2.0.X
• \<Full release notes>, \<User Manual>
• \<Downloads>

Tagline: Less is More

• The biggest selling point is that it's either simple as hell, or that it simplifies complexity.
• "Reject the Labyrinth"
  • "Complexity in interactions between tools, not quantity of tools"
  • "Focus on intuition"
• No-Distraction Full screen UI
• We still have Layers with group folders,vector layers and external application support.

Tagline: Work in Flow

• Background: Something classy
• Foreground: Motion
• MyPaint was explicitly designed to remove small annoyances, which may not have been the case for Photoshop, GIMP, and Krita
• "Measured in milliseconds"
• "Focus on your art, not the tool you use to draw it with"
• True Infinite Canvas.

Tagline: One Brush Engine to Rule Them All

• Background: Something that looks more technical
• Foreground: Technical diagram of MyPaint, or shot of UI
• Customizable Brush Engine that emulates not only Traditional brushes but also more exotic ones.
• Need to understand MyPaint's brush engine better for this. People seem to like it, though.

Who's Using MyPaint?

• A random photo from:
  • Instagram, Twitter, Mastodon, DeviantArt
• Should be vetted
• Link to Forums

[AesaraB]

I'm going to close this for now, because it's "good enough" to publish.