hero, header and footer look-feel improvements

[reveurguy]

Signed-off-by: reveurguy [email protected] Made initial improvements to the website by making changes in hero section, header and footer. Please provide any feedback or changes. Will make improvements to the rest of the website as well.

Thank you for contributing to CoreDNS' website!

Note:

• All text listed in /plugins is a copied from https://github.com/coredns/coredns/tree/master/plugin.

• The release notes are copied from https://github.com/coredns/coredns/tree/master/notes.

Any pull request that updates either of those should be directed to the CoreDNS repository: https://github.com/coredns/coredns .

[chrisohaver]

Please put a description of the changes you are making in the PR Description.

[reveurguy]

I have mentioned the changes.

[chrisohaver]

I have mentioned the changes.

“Made initial improvements to the website by making changes in hero section, header and footer.”

This is too vague. Please describe the changes.

[reveurguy]

Made initial changes to improve the website look and design.

1. I changed the background of the header, hero section and footer.
2. Improved the navbar look and added twitter, slack and github links as logos.
3. Improved the hero section buttons looks and style, also improved the version-release notes section look.

[reveurguy]

@chrisohaver I have made more changes to the homepage. Now it is fully improved. please have a look at it and do provide me any feedback or suggestions.

[chrisohaver]

This is a pretty significant re-design ... reviewing a change of this scope isn't my wheelhouse.

Maybe a website-designy person from CNCF can help review the proposed new look?

[reveurguy]

I didn't understand what you meant by CNCF resource.

[chrisohaver]

On the whole, I prefer the existing cold condensed presentation over the more whimsical proposed design. This is just my preference. That said the website isn't made for me (a CoreDNS maintainer); it exists for other people (new CoreDNS users), and I don't know what their preference is.

[reveurguy]

We can share the website in the slack channel and ask other maintainers and members for their view. That would help.

[reveurguy]

This is a pretty significant re-design ... reviewing a change of this scope isn't my wheelhouse.

Maybe a website-designy person from CNCF can help review the proposed new look?

Yes we can do that as well if you want.

[chrisohaver]

@bradbeam @chrisohaver @dilyevsky @jameshartig @greenpau @isolus @johnbelamaric @miekg @pmoroney @rajansandeep @stp-ip @superq @yongtang @Tantalor93

Please see this proposed redesign of coredns.io, and provide feedback:

https://deploy-preview-267--coredns.netlify.app

[Tantalor93]

On my phone it is quite a regression in a UX I cant even see the header

[chrisohaver]

On my phone it is quite a regression in a UX

Thanks for taking a look! I noticed the mobile display issues too. Although I think we should make sure there is a consensus to move forward with the proposed look and feel before spending time ironing out bugs in the new design.

[reveurguy]

These are the initial changes only, so i made it w.r.t to laptop size only, haven't made it responsive, that's why it will not look good on mobile, would be visible perfectly on laptop.

[bradbeam]

On the whole, I prefer the existing cold condensed presentation over the more whimsical proposed design. This is just my preference. On the whole, I prefer the existing design over the proposed design.

I fall into this bucket as well. Some general comments/opinions,

• I find the gradient header to be very busy and sometimes hides/obscures the text/links ( ex, on the plugins page, the text under Plugins; when hovering over the Documenting Plugins link, the box nearly disappears )
• The shadow(?) under the landing page topics made me think I had the text selected; I find it a bit distracting
• I do like the CNCF graduation banner

[Isolus]

On the whole, I prefer the existing cold condensed presentation over the more whimsical proposed design. This is just my preference. That said the website isn't made for me (a CoreDNS maintainer)

I'll go along with that as well.

Also, I'm not sure what problem the new design is supposed to solve. Functionally it seems to be similar. And compared to other sites that have a design that is deemed modern, the old design seems more modern to me than the proposal.

[dilyevsky]

Also, I'm not sure what problem the new design is supposed to solve

+1 unless there's a specific issue we're trying to address my preference is to keep it as is.

[reveurguy]

if required I can make the changes suggested, these were only the initial changes so most of them were on the landing page itself, that's why on other pages there would be some issues. my suggestion and changes were just to make the site look visually better, it doesn't solve any major problem. if you would like to remain with the current site, i'll close this PR, that's no issue.

[reveurguy]

[Tantalor93]

I think it seems that the general agreement is to keep the UI of the site as it is, so I think we can close this @reveurguy ? But thanks for the time you spent on this overhaul. Do you agree with closing this PR and keep the site as it is? @chrisohaver @dilyevsky @bradbeam