[osol-mktg] Re: [website-discuss] top-right jumble and other concerns

[Laura Ramsey]

Glynn Foster wrote:

>Hey,
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>On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 13:43 -0800, Dan Price wrote:
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>>On Fri 16 Dec 2005 at 01:42PM, Glynn Foster wrote:
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>>>>...and hopefully we'll get a plan/process in place for a light evolution 
>>>>of the site to re-arrange some links, move things up more, etc. over the 
>>>>course of the next quarter. The key is keeping the site's recognition 
>>>>value high. We don't want to do redesigns that might inconvenience 
>>>>fellow surfers...and we don't want to mess up the front page too much 
>>>>because it will wreck bookmarks --
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>>>I doubt too many people will be bookmarking the front page ;)
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>>Huh?  There are 185 del.icio.us bookmarks to it alone.
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>Hrm, ok, that did sound rather silly. I just wonder then if we've got
>all these people bookmarking the front page, how regularly they are
>coming back to it. Should the news section be more prominent?
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I would say, Yes  and it would also be cool to have one of the chicklets 
in the right hand column devoted to "WHAT'S NEW" because I get alot of 
inquiries that go;"I hit your site today and couldn't find anything 
new."  Now, if these were lazy people I'd say, GO-on!  But they are 
people who drive significant visibility to our community and cause. 
(Berlind, McMillan, Shankland, Vance, Coffee, Gardner...)  I tell them 
to read the announcements section, but that doesn't always say what's 
new in the individual communities. 


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>>>I do think that we need a steady evolution of the front page though to
>>>push the community off into different directions that are hot. It's all
>>>about cheerleading, excitement and growing the community. How are we
>>>going to get them back after their first browse - is it a sense of
>>>technology, or community, or both? others? How do we get them back on a
>>>regular basis...then the $1,000,000 question, how do we get them to
>>>contribute? I think opensolaris.org has a powerful part to play in that.
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>>I agree that interesting art to thematically replace our "open" thingy
>>would be great-- something to commemorate the ZFS launch, something for
>>BrandZ, etc.  But right now the only artist (AFAIK) we've had is
>>Chandan, whose real job is engineering.  So it seems a little unfair to
>>draft him continuously.
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>Ahh, yes...but there's potentially 1000's of graphic artists out there
>to be able to do a similar job [1] - another avenue for community
>contributions that don't necessarily involve code.
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>Glynn
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>[1] With no discredit to Chandan - if he could be cloned that would be
>    great ;)
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