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provide a top level entry page #53

Open cmungall opened 8 years ago

cmungall commented 8 years ago

We have a few possibilities for sending people to:

  1. the org -- https://github.com/phenopackets/
  2. the main format repo -- https://github.com/phenopackets/phenopacket-format
  3. Getting Started in the wiki (linked from the README in 2)

all are a bit geeky to the non-github familiar

It may be better if we have a splash page (authored in github pages and visible on phenopackets/github.io). Could just be very minimal, with quick links to the wiki, possibly duplicating the getting started page?

jmcmurry commented 8 years ago

Looking at the grand challenges app again and I love it. Any objections to just tweaking that to be less proposal and more tightly scoped and putting up on GitHub.io? @cmungall @mellybelly

cmungall commented 8 years ago

Sounds good. I was imaging the entry page to be text-light, with links to wiki, detailed description (app) etc

On 22 Mar 2016, at 20:51, Julie McMurry wrote:

Looking at the grand challenges app again and I love it. Any objections to just tweaking that to be less proposal and more tightly scoped and putting up on GitHub.io? @cmungall @mellybelly

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jmcmurry commented 8 years ago

Makes sense. But given how important context is to understanding the technical aspects, perhaps front wiki page that is truly text light, with a link to more wiki text?

cmungall commented 8 years ago

caveat: I suck at design

But I was thinking something quite modern, like this: https://datascience.nih.gov/commons

where we have an attractive background, a mission-y blurb, and a menu (corresponding roughly to the quick start links), and then scrolling down take you into text (heavily imbued with images, examples, etc).

obviously we don't have a lot of resources or time to design this, but I perhaps naively imagined something reasonably clean could be knocked together using some standard 3rd party templates

jmcmurry commented 8 years ago

Sure; lemme take a crack at it :)

mellybelly commented 8 years ago

From: https://www.joomconnect.com/msp-marketing/websites/website-templates.html here is a simple one that I kinda liked: http://anacron.mspwebsite.com/

even more simple: https://www.squarespace.com/websites/templates/om https://www.squarespace.com/websites/templates/bedford

Is there a way to tell what the BD2K used?