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

[Barry Canton]

I'm also in favor of getting rid of most of the the wikiness from the main page.

On 4/15/08, julius.lucks <julius.lucks at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with Jason's points - Julius
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> On Apr 14, 2008, at 8:52 PM, Jason Kelly wrote:
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>  > 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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