I've been working on a new anoncoin.net.
The new site is an one page only with as little text as possible, referring to the wiki for details and social media or forums for news.
It's important to communicate to 2 groups - normal users and hard core tech people.
Since they want different information in different channels the page should be simple but informative enough for the normal user to get interested and started. The tech guy should be satisfied by the wiki easily found just around the corner and filled with detailed info.
So - no detailed info or news feed, just links to it.
The style is supposed to be techy yet simple, old school in a modern way, underground but fresh.
Plain html/css, no php/sql/javascript/ajax/google/facebook.
http://image.bayimg.com/24527a19f17592d44c7d9eaab5b350b2f9d159ea.jpgThe texts have not been my priority and are "work in progress" together with lunokhod2.
But please give input on all levels.
Hi n00n,
I really like the design of the web site. My comments here will only be related to the text and the choice of a "one page" format.
I realize that the text is not finished, nevertheless, I feel that there is not enough information on the one-page format to describe what anoncoin is, how it is different from other coins, and why a casual internet user should download the client after reading the page. I totally agree that we should keep the tech talk down to a minimum, but I feel that it might be a good idea to have a link to a second page that describes what the coin is all about. I personally would have created a second page that copies this text from the actual web site:
https://anoncoin.net/index.php/the-coin In particular, I think that we need to address the question: Why does anonymity matter? And What is Zerocoin? I don't think that the text as written is too tech oriented (but I could be wrong...).
Second, I think that it would be very useful to have a third page that describes how to download the client, how to set it up, and to give some real basic security advice (such as encrypting the wallet and using I2P). I worry that if we burry this in the wiki (which is heavy on text) that the average user will have a hard time finding this (or simply will chose not to look). In general, the average user will probably not read the wiki, so all information should be in the graphical web site.
Finally, I think that the main web page should probably include a list of the developers, along with their expertise. This is useful so that the casual user will realize that there is a team of developers, and not just one person. This could probably be appended to one of the three pages.
In the end, I feel that a 3-page web site should be sufficient to address my concerns. With the given format, it should be trivial to add such pages, if that is what the consensus turns out to be. Of course, this is just my opinion...