We’re very happy to announce that our WPFpedia.com site redesign has just been published and is now live! Here’s a screenshot:
Take it for a spin now at: www.wpfpedia.com
What is WPFpedia?
WPFpedia is a free reference guide we created for WPF developers. There are a ton of useful resources on WPF development out on the web but finding them can be tricky. Our reference guide site provides a one-stop shop way to access WPF development resources.
However it’s not just another link site. All our content is completely moderated meaning we only list resource items that would truly be helpful to developers. We tag all items and you can easily search by tag if you wish, or even filter search results by multiple tags. We provide summaries of each resource item and even provide summaries of the source web sites.
Once you create a free account, you can vote on resource items you like and can add comments to them as well. You can suggest your own resource items too.
We have backend logic that watches the web for interesting blog posts that could be useful to WPF developers. Once found, we can read each one and determine whether it should be added to the resource guide or not.
About the design
We’ve tried our best to create a design that isn’t cluttered and really allows you to focus on the content of each page. There is a minimal amount of advertising as well, currently one banner ad on each page. We did this so as not to distract you from the content you are trying to find since this is first and foremost, our contribution back to the community.
Use case example
Say I’m a WPF developer (which I am :) ) and I have been directed by my manager to use MVVM in our new WPF application. I can log onto wpfpedia.com and click the MVVM tag link on the search page. This will provide me with a list of all the MVVM-related blog posts that have been loaded into the guide. I can examine the details of each resource item and if it looks interesting to me, jump directly to it.
The old WPFpedia site
Our first iteration of WPFpedia was hosted inline with our main Actipro web site under the support section. With this new redesign we wanted to move it out into its own site that is completely focused on delivering resource content to its viewers.
More information
I invite you to check the site out, sign up for a free account, and start voting and commenting on resource items you like. Please use the Contact form on the site if you have any suggestions for further improvement as well.
Over the coming days, I’ll expand on some more capabilities of the site.
Then following that I’ll start posting some screenshots of the work we’re doing on our upcoming Silverlight controls as we prepare Silverlight Studio.