A large part of all of OWW's traffic comes from referrals from either Google or Yahoo. That means a user sees a small tag on the search result line prior to clicking on it that identifies the page as part of OWW. <br><br>
Once they click on the link to go to OWW, Barry pointed out that when they land on one of our pages other than Main_Page or one of a dozen or fewer other pages, there's nothing on the top of the page or in the sidebar to identify the site. We become anonymous. The viewer has to scroll to the bottom of the page to find a small link for "about <a href="http://openwetware.org">openwetware.org</a>". <br>
<br>Our first attempt to address the problem will go online soon. We're adding a one-time display of the text from the OWW main page telling users who we are and inviting them to join. Once they have a cookie from our site, they will never see it again. If they visit once and see a link that's not relevant to them, the nxt time they visit and get wowed by our info, they may not connect the fact they found value at OWW and thus fail to look around on the site.<br>
<br>Does anyone have any thoughts about other ways to address this? Even in UMS, every page has a banner identifying the site as OWW. <br><br>We can add a banner to the skin over the white area of the page. This banner would not ever be displayed on hosted lab's sites since the dewikify app doesn't export the skins. I'm no artists. If anyone has a simple and clear way to express who we are to visitors in an unobtrusive but clear way, I'd love to hear about it.<br>
<br>Thanks!<br><br>B.<br><br><br>