New websites and new domains

It’s been almost two months now and most of you have probably managed to get used to the new websites and domain names. We invested a lot of time into making the right redirects and to not break your browsing habits. Given the very few issues reported it seems we succeeded.

That said, you may have been focused only on the things relevant to you at the moment and missed the big picture. I will explain what changed and why.

New top level domain 

This one was impossible to miss if you have ever used the the community site. We moved from community.liferay.com to liferay.dev.  The reason was not just to save you a few keystrokes. Well OK, keystrokes was why we didn’t go with  liferay.community (which was the original idea) but if it was only about that, we could have chosen liferay.io instead.  

We wanted to use a top level domain because our community is so important to us! In the past years we’ve invested a lot to serve our .COMmercial audience. It was about time to grant the same privilege to our .DEVeloper audience! 

By doing this we made it possible to solve another, long due issue: the lack of product website for Liferay’s flagship Open Source product - Liferay Portal. This has been one of the most frequent community complaints/requests ever since liferay.com started wearing a suit and a tie! That issue is finally fixed!  

Product websites

In a true Open Source fashion, all of our major Open Source products now have their own websites. Many of you know some of our smaller projects have had their own online presence from the start (like https://alloyeditor.com, http://lexicondesign.io, https://clayui.com, http://metaljs.com, ...) but it was never the case for Liferay Portal. And sadly the new kid on the block, Liferay Commerce was also released without one (not counting the documentation buried deep inside the LDN). 

So here are all the new (and transferred) websites:

Portal website (https://portal.liferay.dev)

A dedicated web home for our most popular product - Liferay Portal. There you’ll find:

  • Discover section that aims to explain to newcomers what the product is, what problems it solves, how it is designed and what tools are supported.
  • Get section with convenient download page and link to the source code.
  • Learn section that not only holds the documentation that used to live on LDN (dev.liferay.com) but also has code samples and security advisories.
  • Participate section that explains in detail all the possible ways to get involved and provide feedback.
  • People section where we highlight the achievements of our community members.
  • Solutions section to brag about the great things that we, our partners and you have done thanks to Liferay Portal.

I will be writing more about some of those sections in the upcoming posts, so stay tuned. Also please let us know (developer-relations@liferay.com) what you think, does the website structure make it easy for you to find the information you are looking for and what else would you like to see there. Your feedback is very important to us.

Commerce website (https://commerce.liferay.dev)

The home of our newest Open Source product - Liferay Commerce. For now it only contains the documentation and a download page. If you are using or planning to use Liferay Commerce, please let us know how would you like that website to evolve?

Marketplace developer portal (https://marketplace.liferay.dev)

The website for those community members who would like to sell (or simply distribute) their applications on Liferay Marketplace. As both Liferay Portal and Marketplace evolved, the information about how to develop, build, register and publish application got spread in multiple places (Marketplace site itself, liferay.com, LDN, ...). This new website is laying the foundation for Marketplace developers compendium and self service portal.

Liferay Faces (https://faces.liferay.dev)

This is not a new site. It was previously available at http://liferayfaces.org domain. It is the home of Liferay Faces - an Open Source umbrella project that provides support for the JavaServer™ Faces (JSF) standard in webapp and portlet projects.

Who made all this possible?

As simple as it sounds when you read a post like this, it was an enormous challenge to get all this done. It took many bright minds and several months. So if you like the result, please find a way to say thank you to the following people:

We need your feedback!

Please, please, take a minute or a few to tell is what you think. In the comments here or by email (developer-relations@liferay.com) or in Slack, whatever works best for you. But please tell us what you like, what you don’t like, what you would rather change, remove or add, … Or perhaps you would do it all in a whole different way? 

We are building those sites for you! Help us make the best of them!

 

Read more:

  1. ➡️ New websites and new domains
  2. Liferay Portal website - Discover

  3. Liferay Portal website - Learn

  4. Liferay Portal website - Participate