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.
<br><br>Do we need 2 different buttons for blogs? If so, should they point to the same place?<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> On Jan 20, 2008 5:12 PM, Austin Che <<a href="mailto:austin@csail.mit.edu">austin@csail.mit.edu
</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> 2) I've switched out the community portal button on the main page to instead
<br>> point to blogs. Again, I think blogs are gaining more traction than the<br>> community portal ever did. Please let me know if you object. (We talked<br>> about this idea previously at an SC meeting but we never actually
<br>> implemented it.)<br>><br>> 3) I've removed the random page link from the default mediawiki sidebar.<br>> Again, I don't think it is a particularly useful link to justify being<br>> included on all pages by default. But let me know if you object.
<br><br></div> I agree with the things that have been removed from the<br> sidebar. But we have plenty of extra space there and if really<br> think the buttons on the front page are important, we should just<br> put them in the sidebar. It would reduce the front page
<br> clutter and allow people coming in at a random page to see that<br> there's more on the site than whatever they're looking at.<br><br> BTW, oww is "slow" loading with 71% of sites being faster than us
<br> <a href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main/openwetware.org" target="_blank">http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main/openwetware.org</a><br> I'm sure having many different icons doesn't help.<br><font color="#888888">
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