Separate front page and blog?

[tsaoyu]

After a bit work on Jekyll, I put this experimental page here. I do think it is a good idea to separate blogging from this front page.

• Elegant and concise front page can present our Core concepts and grasp potential readers
• For those who want goes into detail it easy to re-direct visitor from front page to blog
• WordPress rich text editor is really much more user-friendly to non-technical members

Also, Amber team's, Simon's page use the same design.

[Nanoseb]

I am not fond of these kind of pages, in the end there is mostly pictures and no much content, moreover the blog should really be highlighted because it is really good (thanks for our authors!), and a great source of information as well.

But this is only my point of view.

[tsaoyu]

Thanks for your advice.
Not limited to verbal descriptions, pictures itself is already been an important part as web content.
More words don't necessarily means we can delivery more content to our potential readers now.
It really depends on how can we attract their attention at first glance and then point out those blog post to those who really want to dig in.
The successful experience in Hydro Contest communication strategy tell me: live video is fantastic, video is great, pictures are acceptable, words no way.
If we use a time-line based blog as our front-page, we may get some geeky supporters but we lose most of impatient readers very quickly.

I personally still up for the separation.

[smaria]

We should have more highlights than the blog: Our build description, our code, something about the challenges of sailing. I am assuming when we move away from the mockup phase the blog will not be stuck to the bottom of the page anymore ;)
I think if we make sure we have content and not just pretty pictures, this can turn into a good website. And at least on my machine it neatly fits itself into various browser sizes as well.