Comments on: Reimagining www.asp.net, Part One: The Home Page Experience

By: nintendo r4

nintendo r4 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:09:50 +0000

This home page is what I am unfamiliar with……Does it belong to VS 2010?????……..

By: nintendo r4

nintendo r4 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:09:50 +0000

This home page is what I am unfamiliar with……Does it belong to VS 2010?????……..

By: gregor suttie

gregor suttie — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:14:09 +0000

I agree entirely, I hate adverts on a site where your trying to find out about new technologies.

The problem I see is that there are so many new technologies coming out that an everyday developer just doesnt always have the chance to fiund out more about them - what about a section for new technologies that you can read about quickly and either learn or dismiss pretty quickly.

Dont like the idea of twitter streams on asp.net either - more videos and more code examples n how to use the new technologies.

By: Mallioch

Mallioch — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:07:31 +0000

I think your point about focusing on new users is especially important. As someone who has been on the platform for a few years, with the exception of the downloads, I can do just fine without ever visiting this site. I know the people to follow to get any important information. And, in fact, I hardly ever visit.

But if I were new it would be different. I would want this site to have a very clear path from noob to intermediate user. The getting started section just does not stand out enough.

A change I would make to the above is to use color to bring out the noob section. All the sections on the site have the same styling. The same could be said of your mock up. Bring out your noob section more and you have even greater improvement.

By: John Sheehan

John Sheehan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:58:50 +0000

Yeah I'll cover filtering the Twitter feed in Part 3 when I talk about the community stuff. That feed will be modeled after the .NET Twitter Stream I built at http://managedassembly.com/twitter

I like the video idea as well.

By: javery

javery — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:08:45 +0000

I think the twitter hashtag stream would become the biggest spam mess ever. :) I would instead do a filtered list of certain people, or even have someone filter the list. (even the best people tend to twitter things MS might not want on their front page)

In the end though what I would do is replace that twitter section with a huge embded video player with a quick intro to building an ASP.NET MVC app. Like the Rails build a blog demo that got so many people interested in rails.