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Re:Please review the new tarsnap website by cperciva on Sunday September 13, 2009 @08:13PM (#820798)
What would make the site look more professional? More text? Less text? A logo? A picture of a house burning down along with a smiling man saying "I don't care if my house burns down, because I know all my data is safely stored with tarsnap"?

Ok, that last one is facetious -- but in all seriousness, I'd love to hear something more specific than "unprofessional".

Re:Please review the new tarsnap website by bdr on Sunday September 13, 2009 @11:03PM (#821003)
- At least choose a font for your title.

- "can probably be compiled on many other UNIX-like operating systems" comes across well from one nerd to another, but probably not to managers. This gets into the question of who your target audience is.

- In the intro, talk about what tarsnap does instead of just saying it's a secure online backup service and talking about the "client code". What makes you different from the hundreds of other backup services?

- The red yellow and blue color scheme isn't doing it for me. Looks better if you make the red yellow, but I know you want to draw attention to the call to action.

- The gap between the left column and the news is ugly. Consider not having news on this page at all.

Re:Please review the new tarsnap website by rms on Sunday September 13, 2009 @08:48PM (#820845)
As a start, I would say yes, get a logo -- even if it is just the exact same as your current non-logo run through Photoshop/GIMP's anti-aliasing.