<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I also feel the landing page and overall feel of the site could do with a bit of work.</p>
<p>As a member of the community I'd be happy to pitch in some cash to pay for a nice design that would be a bit easier on the eye.</p>
<p>The download speed is also a killer. Lots of the buzz on the web around Erlang revolves around how well it can handle web traffic and yet downloading anything off <a href="http://erlang.org">erlang.org</a> takes forever (at least four me and a fair few other people I've spoken to) and I haven't be able to find working torrents for the last few releases.</p>
<p>I think basic site design and faster downloads would have a noticeable impact on the first impression.</p>
<p>Cheers!<br>
OJ<br>
</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sep 10, 2012 12:55 AM, "Olav Frengstad" <<a href="mailto:olav@fwt.no">olav@fwt.no</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The Haskell landing page is very nice.<br>
<br>
Just improving the general styles would make a big different and it's<br>
not that big job, creating an equally appealing landing page would<br>
require a bit more effort tho.<br>
<br>
<br>
Does anyone know what content management system is used for the site,<br>
and if the sources are available anywhere?<br>
<br>
Olav<br>
<br>
2012/9/9 Tristan Sloughter <<a href="mailto:tristan.sloughter@gmail.com">tristan.sloughter@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> I find it funny that it seems Haskell (well Haskell Platform) has the most<br>
> appealing landing page for any programming language :<br>
> <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/" target="_blank">http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/</a><br>
><br>
> Would be awesome to have something like that, and linking to Erlang<br>
> Solutions binary packages of Erlang/OTP.<br>
><br>
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Henrik Nord <<a href="mailto:henrik@erlang.org">henrik@erlang.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On 09/06/2012 12:51 AM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> The subject line is a node to Adlai Stevenson's quip that he<br>
>>> found [St] Paul appealing and [Norman Vincent] Peale appalling.<br>
>>> I happened to visit <a href="http://www.erlang.org" target="_blank">www.erlang.org</a> this morning, and while I<br>
>>> found much good stuff there, I found the entry page unappealing.<br>
>>> The quote from Joe Armstrong is in dark grey on a black background<br>
>>> and is *very* hard to read. The "bleached" Erlang "e" on the<br>
>>> right looked a bit dead, and the way such colour as existed at<br>
>>> the top "faded into the black" for some reason made me think of<br>
>>> the dying Emperor Julian.<br>
>>><br>
>>> On the Downloads page, the word "courtesy" is spelled "curtesy".<br>
>>> (And "OS X" is normally written that way, not "Os X".)<br>
>><br>
>> Thank you for pointing this out.<br>
>><br>
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