[OWW-SC] New icons for OWW Feedback and Lab Notebook

[Bill F]

Good idea. That gets rid of the redundant use of 'news' on the front page as
well. It makes the top buttons unambiguous. We should move the contents of
the new highlights into the blog and flip the switch.

So are we going to do it?

If so, who?


On Jan 21, 2008 10:21 AM, Jason Kelly <jasonk at mit.edu> wrote:

> we might just drop the "news highlights" altogether and just use the
> SC blog for that as well.  Seems like funneling more content through
> the blog increases the odds that it stays fresh.  Will also help to
> de-clutter the front page.
>
> thanks,
> jason
>
> On Jan 21, 2008 9:50 AM, Bill F <bill.altmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The front page now has 2 buttons for blogs; one in the top bar and
> another
> > below in the "News Highlights". They both say, "start a blog" below
> them.
> > One points to a Wiki page while the other points to a raw  HTML page.
> >
> > Do we need 2 different buttons for blogs?  If so, should they point to
> the
> > same place?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  On Jan 20, 2008 5:12 PM, Austin Che <austin at csail.mit.edu > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > 2) I've switched out the community portal button on the main page to
> > instead
> > > > point to blogs.  Again, I think blogs are gaining more traction than
> the
> > > > community portal ever did.  Please let me know if you object.  (We
> > talked
> > > > about this idea previously at an SC meeting but we never actually
> > > > implemented it.)
> > > >
> > > > 3) I've removed the random page link from the default mediawiki
> sidebar.
> > > > Again, I don't think it is a particularly useful link to justify
> being
> > > > included on all pages by default.  But let me know if you object.
> > >
> > >    I agree with the things that have been removed from the
> > >    sidebar. But we have plenty of extra space there and if really
> > >    think the buttons on the front page are important, we should just
> > >    put them in the sidebar. It would reduce the front page
> > >    clutter and allow people coming in at a random page to see that
> > >    there's more on the site than whatever they're looking at.
> > >
> > >    BTW, oww is "slow" loading with 71% of sites being faster than us
> > >    http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main/openwetware.org
> > >    I'm sure having many different icons doesn't help.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Austin Che           <austin at csail.mit.edu>          (617)253-5899
> > >
> > >
> > >
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