I won't go in to whether the current design is good enough or better than Sinatra (that appears to be a matter of taste), but I can note that these ideas don't contradict each other.

A web designer works on a website, a programmer and general contributor can help on docs. I'd rather have a web designer look into creating a better website (if she deems it worthy - I've received a "nothing is wrong with it" responses from designer before) than ask her to patch up the docs.

That way a person's gift doesn't go to waste and we might get an even better website! :)

(and excuse me for top posting)

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Naveed Massjouni <naveedm9@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't disagree that Dancer should have a professional looking
website.  I just think that Dancer already has a professional looking
website.  When I show off Dancer to my friends, I'm proud to show them
the perldancer.org website because I think it is very nice, clean and
useful.  The website is designed much better than Sinatra's for
example.  My opinion is that energy would be better spent on improving
the pod docs on cpan.

Naveed

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Alexis Sukrieh <sukria@sukria.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Dancer project started in august 2009, when I saw Sinatra[1] and
> thought Perl needed something like that.
>
> At first it was just a basic route disptacher, but soon people started
> to pay some attention to it, and contributors started showing up.
>
> At the time of this writing, Dancer is 8 months old and has more than
> 100 followers on GitHub[2], the project is more and more popular and
> still attracts new users.
>
> A domain name has been registered[3] and a mailing list has been
> created[4].
>
> Almost all of the features we want for the 1.2 release are done and are
> heavily tested, we're quite happy with the overall quality of the code
> (more than 80% of the codebase is covered by the test suite).
>
> So what's next?
>
> Well, we want to give Dancer a better website, one with a
> professional-looking design. To do so, we don't have many options:
>
> Either we find a profesional web designer willing to offer his time to
> do it or we pay one.
> Facts are that web designers willing to work for free projects (for
> free) are very rare, and we'll end up with a satisfying result
> faster if we hire a web designer.
>
> Hence this email: if you like Dancer and use it, either personaly or
> professionaly here is a very good way to contribute to the project:
>
> Help us hire a professional designer, make a donation[5] and contribute
> to give Dancer a better look for the outside world.
>
> All donators will be listed in a credit page, with a link to their
> website if they provide it.
>
> Of course, if you are (or know) a good web designer willing to offer
> his/her time to build a new pro-looking design, feel free to contact us.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>        Alexis, for the Dancer development team.
>
>
> 1: http://www.sinatrarb.com
> 2: http://github.com/sukria/Dancer
> 3: http://perldancer.org
> 4: http://lists.perldancer.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/dancer-users
> 5: http://perldancer.org/donate
>
>
>
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