[OWW-Discuss] I vote for putting text under OWW logo & joinbuttonRE: Oww-discuss Digest, Vol 18, Issue 27

[Ilya Sytchev]

As a general note: here are two fairly successful (i.e., having an 
active and growing user community) social sites that got a lot of UI 
features right in my opinion:

http://www.yelp.com/boston
http://boston.going.com/

I think we should learn from their experience and borrow some of their 
ideas.

Ilya


Steven J. Koch wrote:
> I wasn't exactly clear on my concern either.  Just unintended consequences,
> I guess, and I was thinking of it screwing up formatting or something.  For
> me personally, I am fine, but there may be other users who want their
> content showing up exactly as they set it each time?
> 
> Another alternative would be to replace two of the top right links (IP
> address, talk for this IP, which I think are useless, right?) with a "what
> is OpenWetWare?" link (next to the "log in/ join" link which I just realized
> is there).  This would have the advantage of showing up on all non-logged-in
> visits, as opposed to only the first visit.  And to me it seems less subject
> to bugs and maintenance issues.
> 
> --Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oww-discuss-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:oww-discuss-bounces at mit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Jason Kelly
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 6:40 PM
> To: Austin Che
> Cc: oww-discuss at mit.edu
> Subject: Re: [OWW-Discuss] I vote for putting text under OWW logo &
> joinbuttonRE: Oww-discuss Digest, Vol 18, Issue 27
> 
> I really like the idea of the "new visitor banner", as I understand it
> there wouldn't be any changes to the wiki-code underlying any page -
> it would just pop-up a small bar at the top explaining what the site
> is (and would only do this the 1st time you visit the site).
> 
> I think having the 'join oww' link and the name 'openwetware' under
> the logo are good ideas, but they don't tell the visitor what
> openwetware is at all.  And without being told, unless they are very
> curious, I doubt many will click a "join OWW" link.
> 
> It seems like this is a very easy thing to try out for a week or two,
> and we can see if there is an uptick in new accounts.
> 
> I'm thinking something like this:
> http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:New_visitor_blurb
> (I inserted the DNA ligation page below it as an example)
> 
> keeping in mind jason's comments about treating the spiders properly,
> what other downside is there?  I wasn't clear on exactly what your
> concern was, steve.
> 
> thanks,
> jason
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Austin Che <austin at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
>> "Steven J. Koch" <sjkoch at unm.edu> wrote:
>>
>>  > 1.  Text under the wonderful OWW DNA handshake logo, similar to
> Wikipedia
>>  > (title plus motto) is a great idea for branding.
>>
>>     Agree.
>>
>>
>>  > 2.  A Prominent / Permanent "Join OWW" would be nice.  I too have to
> search
>>  > when referring people.
>>
>>     Agree.
>>
>>
>>  > 3.  I am hesitant to endorse the one-time "new visitor" addition.  It
> does
>>  > sound fine as described, but I'd vote for erring on the side of caution
> when
>>  > automatically modifying the page content.  A different idea would be to
> add
>>  > an OWW "motto" to the title bar (again similar to Wikipedia), instead
> of
>>  > just "OpenWetWare" as it is now.
>>
>>     I think adding a motto to the title is a great idea and less
>>     intrusive than adding a banner to all pages.
>>
>>  --
>>
>>
>> Austin Che           <austin at csail.mit.edu>          (617)253-5899
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