[website-discuss] May splash page

[Shawn Walker]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Derek Cicero <derek.cicero at sun.com> wrote:
>  As a follow-up to Michelle's earlier email about the splash page for
>  May, here is the current thinking for the launch.
>
>   http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/website/splash2/
>
>  The idea is to introduce opensolaris.com as the place to download the
>  binary and to receive end-user help, with more substantial development
>  issues being directed to opensolaris.org.
>
>  Each of the links on the .org side would go to new landing page of
>  existing materials that Michelle is putting together.
>
>  The opensolaris.org graphic would take the user to the current .org home
>  page.
>
>  Any existing bookmarks to opensolaris.org/os/ would still be valid.
>
>  The opensolaris.com graphic will go to that home page, as shown here:
>
>   http://www.gnome.org/~gman/opensolaris-new/index.html

I think it's a great idea and it looks great

However, I think once the user has seen the splash page, it would be
nice to use a cookie to ensure that subsequent visits by the same user
wouldn't result in the splash page.

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben