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

[julius.lucks]

I agree with Jason's points - Julius

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On Apr 14, 2008, at 8:52 PM, Jason Kelly 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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