Example of a Good Open Source Project Website
Open Source projects are known for dodgy websites, and rubbish documentation. I was overjoyed to see a project that got it right (URL Rewrite Filter). There are a number of things that I really appreciated with this site, and in the hope that people might take notice, I’m going to list the good bits here.
The landing home page has a nice concise description of what the project is all about. When I get to the front page, I can read the overview of the project, and get an understanding of what problems it was created for, and the goals of it. The front page told me enough to want to see more, but didn’t overwhelm me. I got a good feeling from the front page.
The other nice thing about the front page is the navigation structure. The side navigation bar provides the links which I am most interested in. One click to get to a download link (which has a direct link to the files). One click to the source code page (with instructions on svn access via http and the commandline). One click to the documentation. One click to get to the community support.
The documentation is excellent, and provides a good baseline for what documentation of a project this size should look like.
There are good examples of what the configuration file looks like, annotated in a way that makes it easy to understand what the code is there for.
The documentation provides a good reference for how to do the configuration.
It is a great site and provides a good example of what most open source project websites should look like.