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

[Bill F]

I added flags that allow you yo now turn off either the title, timestamp, or
description in RSS feeds. The default is that they're all enabled.

To disable, just add one of the following flags:

notitle="Y"
notimestamp="Y"
nodescription="Y"

Just omit the flags to enable.

Note: setting them to "N" has "unpredictable" results. Just delete the flag
to enable any of them.

Thanks.

B.


On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Jason Kelly <jasonk at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  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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