Proposal: Modernizing the OpenJDK.org Website Design & User Experience

[Wojtek]

Hi

(I hope this will work, mailing list have to be one of the most hostile things when it comes to 
trying to reply to existing message before joining the list…)

On 06/03/2025 16:15, magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com (Magnus Ihse Bursie) wrote:
> On 2025-03-01 22:01, David Alayachew wrote:
> I agree; there are a few issues that could (and should) be addressed to
> make the site more usable. My personal biggest gripe is the super-tiny
> index at the left, where all interesting links are. It's hard do read,
> and hard to find what you are looking for. And it makes like the
> all-important "Developers' Guide" look like it is on the same level as
> the "IRC" link, which I believe is not even functional anymore. (But I
> guess nobody really even notices it in the word soup)
> 
> /Magnus
I once again ended up on JEP page on my mobile phone and after a acouple of seconds decided it makes 
absolutely no sense.

Here is what I saw: https://i.ibb.co/chGWvn0g/Screenshot-20250424-231051-Firefox.png

There is certain resistance when anyone mentions "other sites" but just take a look at any random PEP:
https://i.ibb.co/fzGkSbFy/Screenshot-20250424-231306-Firefox.png
https://i.ibb.co/BVCG4Bt6/Screenshot-20250424-231257-Firefox.png
https://i.ibb.co/F96mnsK/Screenshot-20250424-231254-Firefox.png

On the desktop it doesn't look stellar either, but at least side menu doesn't occlude the text and 
it's readable.

Every couple of weeks I end up on JEP site and repeat usual cycle: I would like to make the website 
better/contribute some changes... search for the sources/how the website is build to tinker and 
tweak it a bit... realise there is none availalbe, give up... this time I went further and actually 
decided to sign up for the list and figured a way how to replay to older thread…

At any rate - my idea would not be to do complete revolution of the website, structure could/should 
stay as is but make it a bit friendlier - adjust fonths here and there and make it usable on mobile 
(dynamically hide menu?). But in order to do that it would be nice to be able to tinker with it/it's 
build so one wouldn't dab with the stored html file just to realise that any suggestion would be 
"incompatible" with the upstream…

tl,dr;
are the sources of the website and build information public?
would there be openness for improving it and if yes - what would be the steps?

w.