Apache Wicket site designs

Designs for wicket.apache.org, published side by side for comparison. The sketches show a homepage only; the full designs include every page. Content on the older designs is as of their date.

  1. The new structure

    October 2026

    The current look, refined, with the restructured navigation: Docs, Releases, Blog and Community, a homepage that shows a page as Java and HTML, a page per release line under /versions/, and the user guide as documentation by topic and kind. Content as on release day, 26 October 2026 (a working date): Wicket 11.0.0 and 10.12.0 LTS out, 8 and 9 just ended.

  2. The departure board

    October 2026

    The restructured site as a station hall: a departure board of the release lines beside a ticket per line with its Maven dependency, Why Wicket as a route of code stops, and every page on the same signage. Content as on release day, 26 October 2026 (a working date).

  3. The reveal

    October 2026

    The restructured site in monochrome with Wicket orange: a homepage that builds an order page's component tree in seven steps of real code, the releases beside the hero, and the same component-tree rail through every page. Content as on release day, 26 October 2026 (a working date).

  4. The ribbon as component tree

    October 2026

    The restructured site in the ribbon design: a seasonal photograph opens every page, the release lines stand in the hero, one orange ribbon runs through a page's component tree on bookcloth and through every page's sections, and How Wicket works grows that tree in seven steps. Switch the season on the photo. Content as on release day, 26 October 2026 (a working date).

  5. Sketch: grid system

    October 2026

    Homepage sketch in the Swiss International Typographic Style: a module grid with one committed field colour.

  6. Sketch: drawing sheet

    October 2026

    Homepage sketch as an engineering drawing: Wicket drawn as a part in two views, releases in the revision table.

  7. Sketch: reveal

    October 2026

    Monochrome with Wicket orange, after vercel.com/eve: scroll through seven steps that build a page's component tree in real code.

  8. Sketch: component tree on bookcloth

    October 2026

    The original provenance ribbon's world without a photo: the component-tree ribbon enters from the left edge and opens the page.

  9. Sketch: ribbon as component tree

    October 2026

    The ribbon runs through a page's component tree, joining each Java component to its tag; release facts shrink to one small block.

  10. Sketch: ribbon with seasons

    October 2026

    The provenance ribbon under a seasonal photograph, with the big logo lockup and a light body. Try ?season=summer or ?occasion=halloween.

  11. Sketch: provenance ribbon

    October 2026

    Homepage sketch that follows Wicket's release lines as one ribbon through twenty years, splitting at the present.

  12. The April attempt

    April 2026

    The previous redesign, published at this address until October 2026.

  13. The current site

    2015 to today

    wicket.apache.org as it is live today, on the Taiga theme.

  14. The 2020 layout

    June 2020

    Andrea Del Bene's new layout for Wicket 9, with content as of June 2020.

  15. The Wicket 8 draft

    May 2018

    A first draft for the Wicket 8 site, with content as of May 2018.