URGENT: create landing/splash page

Oh and having the headline container the same size as on the main page would be nice.

Hi Jonne, all those things you point out are elements of the original design (by the founders). It's not how I would have set about writing a page, but it's what I got handed. I agree it's a bit of a mess. I've done what I can to sort it out. Yes, of course they can and should be ironed out, but for now my main concern is to get some up-to-date, accurate and easy to digest content out there so that newcomers can know a bit more about Diaspora - and particularly how to sign up without all going to joindiaspora.com. Thanks for your useful comments.

I've been updating links and the contributor lists this morning. The contributor lists are of course incomplete, but I've removed people who haven't been involved for a year or more.

Fla, agree that 'features our community loves' should be included, but on a separate page, 'more about Diaspora' - not on the front page. The front page should contain as little text as possible. I think there's a bit too much text as it is, but it will do for now. I had originally added 'more about this' links at the end of the various elements, but I have removed these just so we can get this page out. Once it's up we can write supplementary pages and add links to them.

Sean, I see you've added text from the old project site on to your copy-ed doc. Some of that is good, but please don't let's reintroduce horrid phrases such as 'Diaspora won't force your awesomeness'!

I think links and information are at least up to date now, even though incomplete (in case of contributors and supporters), and there are design issues, but I think it's right now to get these three pages (index, contribs, supporters) up there on diasporafoundation.org asap and then people can edit them afterwards.

Sean, I'll email these files to you. Let me know if you don't receive them.

Is https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora-project-site the current website on diasporaproject.org? We need to put the website on github to work on it.

For the moment, I'm for removing everything on the get involved page from "Diaspora*'s Contributors The people who work on Diaspora* every day " because it's not really useful and not up-to-date, we'll work on that later.

About the home page, I agree it should contain the minimum, but just adding the description of some features is important. Most people coming in this page don't know what's Diaspora*, it's even not indicate that Diaspora is a social network! If we want users to register, we have to explain how they can use Diaspora.

I'm for replacing the "Want to help?" part (which is a summary of the "get involved" page) by "features our users love" :)

@seantilleycommunit and I are working on a relaunch which will be live in the next days. stay tuned.

Good thinking, @flaburgan . I've added the features section.

Have sent the files to Sean. If you can work out a place on Github where I can upload them, I will, although if that involves cloning the repository I'll leave it to Sean to do it.

Right, must rest now. Silly of me to do so much work when I'm not well, but it needed doing. At least there's a base on which others can build.

Thanks everyone for your comments, very useful.

@seantilleycommunit , let me know if you don't receive my email or can't download the files.

Thank you for your amazing work ;)

Awesome stuff, looking forward to seeing the site live and the code on github :)

Thanks everyone for all your feedback. I've been making revisions, using some new copy from Sean, and writing fuller explanations of various elements.

There are updated files back at http://diaspora.goob.me.uk/

I think at this stage I need to pass it on, once @seantilleycommunit has OKed it @dennisschubert will work his magic on it, and I'll try to find a way to get it on GitHub so others can build on what I've done, as it's only really a stop-gap measure.

I had to create some graphics for things like Freedom and Aspects, tried to respect the existing designs, hope mine fit in OK. I've also created a new logo, with a slight gradient on it, as the 'THE DIASPORA* PROJECT' logo was a real alpha logo from way back. Hope it's OK, but anyone else is welcome to create a better logo.

Thanks again for all your help.

@goob nice work. On the supporters page one link to the wiki misses the http:// prefix. Also I think we have to revisit the text about Ilya :/

Well spotted! Thanks. Have fixed.

You're right about Ilya. I didn't really feel like writing an obit. In fact, the whole contributors page needs a big overhaul. All I did was remove people who haven't been involved for over a year, and add a few I knew about. But my knowledge of contributors is not extensive, so others will need to give their input, I guess you or Florian for developers and Sean for other contribs. It definitely needs further work once the pages go up. Likewise, I haven't touched the supporters page, and that only lists the original Kickstarter funders.

There are two options: either put up these versions for now and collate and upload new data as soon as possible, or replace the 'get involved' and 'supporters' pages with a 'coming soon' placeholder until the pages can be improved.