[PD] puredata.info cleanup

[Jesse Mejia]

That all sounds great!

1 minor edit - in the front page description of pd-extended, OSC is mentioned as one of the differentiating features from Vanilla - but it's been a feature built into Vanilla for awhile now. 

Also, I think the processing page is a great ui model.

-Jesse


> On Aug 1, 2016, at 5:03 PM, Derek Kwan <derek.x.kwan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I don't know if this is the proper list for this, I found there is a
> pdweb mailing list but it looks to be quite inactive so I figure I start
> the discussion here... 
> 
> I finally got an account on the puredata.info page so I took the liberty
> of cleaning up/clarifying some of the writing on the front page if
> nobody minds... I didn't want to do anything drastic, just try to make
> things less wordy and clear up some things (like move the description of
> deken to the Pd vanilla bullet, clear up the description of objects and
> canvases, bold things like operating systems).
> 
> I don't want to attempt to do anything drastic without consulting the
> list, but I feel that the front page could use some changing up. When
> you load up puredata.info, you're immediately hit with this wall of
> text, which can be quite overwhelming (especially for newbies).
> Pd-vanilla and Pd-l2ork are featured downloads to the right of the page,
> but you have to wade through the wall of text to actually figure out
> what they are. Taking a page (haha, pun) from the processing.org
> website, it's clearly marked where to download Processing right near the
> top (in a larger font even, along with a link to tutorials and an object
> reference guide) with a video above it explaining exactly what
> Processing is and what it does (and what's new with Processing 3).
> Granted, historically we've had two main distributions of Pd with vanilla
> and extended so perhaps there needs to be a little more words explaining
> which is what (adding on to that, since extended is defunct and l2ork
> isn't ready for multi-platform yet, would it be helpful just to point
> everybody to Pd as the main distribution?). Describing Pd and what it
> does might be shortened up (and perhaps if you want the longer
> description, make an About link on the sidebar) and perhaps throwing a
> few pictures and/or visual eye candy while remaining relatively
> lightweight/datafriendly could help  Also, posting the current versions 
> next to the download links (can this be automated?) would be helpful.
> 
> Summing up, I just think the front page of puredata.info isn't as
> clear/user-friendly as it could be and it's not particularly helpful in
> welcoming new users. Thoughts?
> 
> (Also, how do things get added to the News list? The last entry is from
> 2015 and things such as Pd updates and the NYC conference on there would
> be nice.)
> 
> =====================
> Derek Kwan
> www.derekxkwan.com
> 
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