Feedback on landing page for upcoming project
I've just launched a landing page for an upcoming open source project I've started working on - lococms.net
The project is a CMS package for Laravel aimed at developers, with some easy to use feature designed for their clients.
I'd love some feedback on the page - I'm a developer and that is definitely reflected in my design skills.
It would also be good to get any other feedback about the idea and project in general, I value your input.
Thanks,
Gavin
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I use Laravel quite extensively and I have also been using Laravel Nova (https://nova.laravel.com) which I'm sure you've heard of. I've done some research into a CMS for Laravel and my personal experience is that if you need something lightweight (eg manage some user stuff) it's easiest to build it yourself, and if you need power features you often need something that can be fully customised for which Nova is really good. The $99 price point to me is an absolute bargain. Not sure how Loco would stack up against Nova and if you're planning to charge for it in the future?
I've come across Laravel Nova before but I haven't used it myself. My understanding of Nova is that it's designed to help build any sort of dashboard (correct me if I'm wrong).
My plan is to just release a lightweight CMS as a Composer package to save developers the time of having to build it themselves, or at least have a some more specific pre-built code to start from.
I don't plan on charging for it in future - it's something that I'll be using so I thought why not release it as open source software so other people can give it a go as well.
Nova can be used as a CMS and/or admin panel for your app. There's some videos about it that will give you a good idea of what it can do. The magic is really in that it takes the models that you've already defined, and uses these to build the admin panel. The basis is really quick to setup, customisation takes some but hey, that's almost always the case ;-).
Releasing is as open source is nice! It's probably going to be learnfull as well as you'll (hopefully) get feedback quicker vs when it's paid.
Agree that the header should just be opaque. Also, adjust the copyright for 2020. ;-)
That aside, can you make it easier to understand what the tool does and how it helps? The tagline says "the content management package for laravel", and then below it says "Easily add common CMS features to new and existing Laravel projects with a single Composer package". These seem slightly different (although maybe I just don't know enough about Laravel.
Good spot.
I'll flesh out the explanation a bit more, hopefully that will make it clearer.
Nav bar opacity throws me off. It's a small thing though. I'd probably either make the background color black, white, or grey and have 100% opacity.
Thanks for the feedback. I think I'm going to tweak the colour scheme as a whole.
Would this be a framework for building a CMS service on top of laravel?
Why would I want CMS features mostly?
It's not a bad page
I created a Laravel site last year that was mostly custom stuff, but the client wanted a blog as well. I had a look for a package I could use for the job but all I found were either fully-fledged CMSes built on Laravel, or things that were a bit too clunky for what I wanted.
After adding the blog I decided to make my own package for future use so I don't have to reinvent the wheel, and I thought why not make it open source.