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

[Reshma Shetty]

I was thinking the same thing.  Everything on it is either a button, in the
blog already or has been a news highlight for a while.  Plus, this at least
slightly decreases the size of the main page.

So I just went ahead and removed the news highlights.  New highlights can be
posted to the blog in the future.

-Reshma

On Jan 21, 2008 11:11 AM, Bill F <bill.altmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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