[OWW-Discuss] Front page. It needs more than it has. Anysuggestions?

[Jason Kelly]

agree with steve that we should keep it simple.  Also, I think the
main page is mostly used by new users,  I assume most regular users
never go there, so we could gear the page even more to new users then
it already is.

e.g. a prominent getting started button / prominent join button (not
just a link buried in text), a search box in the middle somewhere,
etc.

might even o with a totally "non-wiki" main page (e.g. lose the side
bar and the top bar) as well.

thanks,
jason

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Ilya Sytchev <ilyas at mit.edu> wrote:
> Also, I've removed the heading "Main Page" from the Main Page.  I think
>  it looks cleaner this way but if you disgree I can revert this change
>  very easily.
>
>  Ilya
>
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>  Reshma Shetty wrote:
>  > Great work!  Looks much better.
>  >
>  > Two minor comments...
>  >
>  > 1) I'd get rid of the blog name on the RSS feed (if that's possible).
>  > I think it is redundant for the feed on the main page.  The time of
>  > the post is likely also unnecessary (but keep the date).  But if this
>  > requires additional recoding of the extension, then skip it.
>  > 2) I am seeing some faint blue lines around each feed element ... not
>  > sure why ... perhaps some CSS oddity?
>  >
>  > I agree with Steve re the main page.  I prefer a streamlined main page
>  > ... especially if it helps with load time (which  was quite slow ...
>  > due at least in part to an unnecessarily large main page image ... not
>  > sure about now?)
>  >
>  > team is the email list for the OWW board + full-time OWWers ... Bill,
>  > Lorrie and Ricardo.  All folks on team are also on discuss.
>  >
>  > -Reshma
>  >
>  > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Steve Koch <koch.steve at kochlab.org> wrote:
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> I can come up with ideas, but my opinion is that it looks pretty good right
>  >> now and more stuff may dilute effectiveness of stuff that is there.  That's
>  >> just my opinion, but brings up another question.  What kind of metric would
>  >> show how effective the main page is?  Maybe this has been figured out
>  >> already?
>  >>
>  >> What's "team at openwetware.org?"
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> From: oww-discuss-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:oww-discuss-bounces at mit.edu] On
>  >> Behalf Of Bill F
>  >>  Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 8:50 PM
>  >>  To: discuss at openwetware.org; team at openwetware.org
>  >>  Subject: [OWW-Discuss] Front page. It needs more than it has.
>  >> Anysuggestions?
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> We've pared it down to the point that it's getting pretty 'minimalistic'.
>  >>
>  >>  Any ideas on what to do to start bulking it up a bit?
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
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