One option would be to fold Labs and Groups into one button and then put Protocols back into the fourth button spot. That would help maintain a balance between content and "social networking" type features.<div>
<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Barry<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 22, 2008 10:31 AM, Jason Kelly <<a href="mailto:jasonk@mit.edu">jasonk@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I took a look at the google analytics on the main page (attached).<br>There were a fair number of clicks on the protocols link, but<br>unfortunately it doesn't distinguish between those that were on the<br>tool bar and those that were on the main page.
<br><br>I'm kind of against removing the protocols button on the main page,<br>personally. someone new to the site (e.g. the people I think the main<br>page is targeted to) might not notice the small links on the left
<br>hand side. same goes for help and about us, which I think should be<br>featured prominently. resources could probably go.<br><br>thanks,<br><font color="#888888">jason<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
On Jan 22, 2008 10:01 AM, Reshma Shetty <<a href="mailto:rshetty@mit.edu">rshetty@mit.edu</a>> wrote:<br>> I went ahead and implemented these changes. I'm not 100% sure it is a good<br>> idea because Protocols are pretty heavily used on the site so having a
<br>> prominent button can be useful. This button bar isn't just on the main page<br>> but also shows up on several other pages. But we'll give it a shot.<br>><br>> Let me know what folks think. We can always roll back the change.
<br>><br>> -Reshma<br>><br>><br>><br>> On Jan 21, 2008 11:24 AM, Austin Che <<a href="mailto:austin@csail.mit.edu">austin@csail.mit.edu</a> > wrote:<br>> ><br>> > While we're on redundancy, the About Us link is present three
<br>> > times, and the Help and Protocols links are present twice on the<br>> > main page. It seems the Resources button should go into the<br>> > sidebar with the other resources. It's unclear why Protocols is a
<br>> > button but Materials isn't. I think it would be easy to make that<br>> > bar into a single line of buttons and remove the duplicates and<br>> > move some into the sidebar. Perhaps a bar with just Labs, Courses,
<br>> > Groups, and Blogs.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > > I was thinking the same thing. Everything on it is either a button, in<br>> the<br>> > > blog already or has been a news highlight for a while. Plus, this at
<br>> least<br>> > > slightly decreases the size of the main page.<br>> > ><br>> > > So I just went ahead and removed the news highlights. New highlights<br>> can be<br>> > > posted to the blog in the future.
<br>> > ><br>> > > -Reshma<br>> > ><br>> > > On Jan 21, 2008 11:11 AM, Bill F <<a href="mailto:bill.altmail@gmail.com">bill.altmail@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > ><br>> > >> Good idea. That gets rid of the redundant use of 'news' on the front
<br>> page<br>> > >> as well. It makes the top buttons unambiguous. We should move the<br>> contents<br>> > >> of the new highlights into the blog and flip the switch.<br>> > >><br>
> > >> So are we going to do it?<br>> ><br>> > --<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Austin Che <<a href="mailto:austin@csail.mit.edu">austin@csail.mit.edu</a>> (617)253-5899
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