* Improve download discoverability
We know users have trouble simply downloading Pulumi. This used to be
very easy, but over time, as we optimized the Getting Started flows, it
got pushed further and further away from the core user experience.
I don't know about you, but the first thing I care about when I'm
trying out a new open source tool is downloading it!
This change aims to do two things:
1. Make downloading a more prominent CTA.
2. Improve the download page so it's less noisy and more focused.
This entails:
* Adding a DOWNLOAD secondary CTA on the homepage.
* Summarizing the recommended download options at the top of the
download page, very clearly, and without any preamble. This
hopefully tells you instantly what you wanted for the 80% case.
* I exerted some artistic freedom which I'd love feedback on. The
recommended options were our Official Brew Tap for macOS, curl
command for Linux, and MSI Installer for Windows. Peers to those
are simple download links for the binaries, as that's the simplest
possible thing, which today is actually the hardest thing to find.
Notably for Windows, I thought of using Chocolatey or Winget, but
I don't perceive that either is "the default" for Windows users.
Winget is the future but it isn't supported pre-Win11, which I have
to assume most users aren't on yet. MSI has been around since the
dinosaurs, so it seems like the safest choice to promote.
* Moving the list of download options for each operating system
underneath a collapsable accordion list, which is collapsed by
default, and clearly labeling it as "Other"; as in, if the heading
didn't work for you, here are some other options.
* A few other wordsmithing tweaks to make the page a little more
streamlined and to flow better.
This is absolutely NOT the final destination for any of this,
however, I am hopeful it will be a simple incremental improvement
that moves the needle on key metrics. We'll watch it in the weeks
to come and course correct as needed -- as well as continuing to
think about ways we can improve all of this overall!
One note: This depends on a new secondary hero button style that
isn't yet merged in the upstream Hugo component library. Assuming
I did that correctly (a big if!) I'll need to rev the go.mod file
after it merges. See: https://github.com/pulumi/theme/pull/159.
* Apply suggestions from code review
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* Fix up some styling
* Update themes/default/layouts/index.html
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* Use new theme/style
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* Add Metabase Package blog post
* Add meta description
* Appease linter
* Apply suggestions from code review
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* Add a blog about deploying to multiple regions
I got this question over email today and figured I'd turn
the response into a blog post.
* Apply suggestions from code review
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* Add more suggestions from code review
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* A handful of updates
Here are some updates based on recent conversations and feedback:
* Update the homepage subheading to be a bit clearer about what
Pulumi is and what it does.
* Change the Cloud Engineering menu item to Why Pulumi, and sort
it to the right of Product. This more clearly speaks to what
this navigation item represents as well as its importance
relative to learning about Pulumi's Product offerings.
* Change the Pulumi Product landing page to say Pulumi Overview,
not Cloud Engineering Platform, since that's what you click to
get there and it currently feels very disconnected from all of
the surrounding marketing which speaks in terms of IaC.
* Add a paragraph to that overview page speaking simply to what
Pulumi is, and making sure to mention open source.
* Add a sentence to the Get Started page about open source.
* Add more customer logos -- we should be updating this much more
often!! Also change the logos to scroll horizontally so that
we aren't afraid to continue adding new ones from time to time.
* Add recent news stories -- we should be updating this much
more often too!! Apparently it's been over a year, despite having
tons of news coverage to share.
* Run prettier to format things
* Sort the case studies
* crop tfir logo
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* Add docs about plugins section in Pulumi.yaml
* Add (optional)
* Full stop and casing
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* Initial draft of blog post: Pulumi now targets .NET 6
* lint
* Finalize the blog post
* apply suggestions from Robbie ❤️
* Minor updates based on Mikhail's comments
* blog post about C# static-code analyzer
* lint
* lint more
* Improve working as suggested by Mikhail
* Bump the date of the blog
* Better wording provide -> providing
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* creating -> create
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* reword
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* reword
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* reword
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* reword
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* was missing a comma
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* Explicitly mention "false-positive" warnings
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* continuation of the section above it
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* Better blog text preview and update publish date
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