The New Developer Express Homepage

I'll give you my two cents;

Ok, on the left side, you have several sections to cover:

Latest news, Support & Community and Demos & Resources.

Good enough!

On the right side you have product info, which is good.

Then top center, you have latest blog entries. That's useful before leaving this page.

But, what don't seem to have any identity or position, are the three boxes under Latest blog:

A Better ASP.NET Grid Control

Six Categories, Six Awards

ExpressSkins Library Beta is Available

Are these, ADs, or info, or what?

You already have three ADs on the top, so these three (mentioned) are making the screen too crowded, mainly because they are loose without identity.

Sometime, less is more. Now the page is too crowded.

That was my 2 1/2 cents ;-)

..Ben

>>Good grief, if we can't advertise on our own site, where can we? ;-)

;-) I meant it in a "Constructive" way!

Julian, it would also be great to use WebParts, so we can customize it to our liking.

Secondly, I don't think anyone can knock DX graphical work. I have even hear it on other forums, how good looking DX stuff are!

..Ben

It's easy to understand how dynamic Developer Express is as an organization because their site, just like their products, are continuously evolving!

If that weren't the case, I would think they believed  nothing more could be done or offered to "Improve on the Developer Experience!" :>)

You guys are a rockin' bunch!

Gary

Hi Mehul;

>>Thanks for the constructive criticism. :-)<<

I'm one of the first customers since the company opened up and I always wish the "best" for DX at all time.

>>Google says that most new people who come to our main page don't know about all of our products, awards, etc.<<

Good point. Actually, it was last year that I had a conversation with Julian about "Having announcements" that most ASPx controls are based AJAX, since other companies were starting to brag about it. So yes, new users want to see the awards and also"Road maps".

The big buzz word now, is "SilverLight", [although after spending some time on it, it's lacking many fundamental components], but I'm already hearing people who want to develop new apps using SL. Just a thought...

>>I like your webparts idea and I'll run it by our community server guru.<<

I was in a web page last night that had used many web parts, I closed a few that I didn't need to see, exited out of the IE, went back and it remembered all my closed webparts, so now that page is custom to what I want to see.

Hope that helps!

Mehul;

>>but more importantly we're working on some WPF stuff for now.

Excellent News!