[maemo-community] Minutes of web design meeting, 13/1/2009
From: Tim tim at samoff.comDate: Wed Jan 14 18:24:09 EET 2009
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<496DCCE6.5020608 at maemo.org> <496DD257.6040003 at nokia.com> <63CBF049-BA7A-4890-B3FD-31294F863444 at gmail.com> <20090114065736.57b5d739 at Nokia-N810-23-14> <496DEA6D.5030402 at maemo.org> <2795CD14-DC7C-4039-97D8-255BCC18F5D0 at gmail.com> <20090114140637.11D205AFF00 at www.maemo.org> <9401d2550901140804r34766ae2l7b64c0d58c260822 at mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <a115937650eee5ba14fbba7c1b10e541 at mail.samoff.com> X-Sender: tim at samoff.com Received: from ppp-70-244-240-232.dsl.ksc2mo.swbell.net [70.244.240.232] with HTTP/1.1 (POST); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:24:09 -0700 User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1-rc2 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_c3ec5b05f47c8ef47d14197525ae0a1f" --=_c3ec5b05f47c8ef47d14197525ae0a1f Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reggie, Concerning the front page of maemo.org, one of my suggestions during the IRC meeting yesterday was to "mashup" all of the news/planet/talk excerpts into a single _hot topics_ (or "Latest News" or whetever) area, so that all of the content was equal on the front page. Of course, each of these different types of content could be signified by an icon (or something)... What is your opinion of this method? Or, is it important that news/etc be distinctly separated from the forum content? Thanks, Tim On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:04:58 -0500, "Reggie Suplido" wrote: From my experience, the labels don't really mean much -- it's really how you lead the visitors to the forum/discussions pages. I've seen successful sites using Forum, Forums, Community, Discuss, etc., even just plain talk bubble icons with no labels. The way to encourage visitors to join the discussion is to have some sort of 'Active Topics' or "Hot Topics" somewhere on the main page and other important pages of the site. Once they see where the forum is, they know where to go next time. Btw, majority of first time visitors find the forum threads via Google. On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Tim wrote: Message-ID: X-Sender: tim at samoff.com [1] Received: from ppp-70-244-240-232.dsl.ksc2mo.swbell.net [6] [70.244.240.232] with HTTP/1.1 (POST); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:06:38 -0700 User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1-rc2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Let's CC Reggie. I think he's on maemo-community. T. On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:02:51 -0500, Ryan Abel wrote: > On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > >> Ryan Abel wrote: >> >>> On Jan 14, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Dave Neary wrote: >>> >>>> Why the insistence on "Talk" (which anyone not currently on ITt >>>> won't >>>> understand the meaning of) rather than "Forum" (which everyone and >>>> his >>>> dog now knows the meaning of)? Is there some justofication I'm >>>> missing? >>> >>> Because that is what was decided. >>> >>> > http://www.internettablettalk.com/2008/12/02/internet-tablet-talk-to-become-talkmaemoorg/ [8] >> >> I can understand that Internet Tablet Talk is to be renamed as >> talk.maemo.org [9] - what I'm wondering is why we have to refer to it as >> "talk" rather than, say, "forum". A label which some people not in the >> Maemo community might have some chance of understanding, and thus >> clicking more often. > > Let's CC Reggie. > > -- > Ryan Abel > Maemo Community Council chair > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-community mailing list > maemo-community at maemo.org [10] > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community [11] -- http://tim.samoff.com [12] _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list maemo-community at maemo.org [10] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community [11] http://tim.samoff.com Links: ------ [1] mailto:tim at samoff.com [2] mailto:1C662167-381E-42A8-8AE4-3EC60C09D22A at gmail.com [3] mailto:496DF00C.8010700 at maemo.org [4] mailto:2795CD14-DC7C-4039-97D8-255BCC18F5D0 at gmail.com [5] mailto:e79680cec1dec4381f5cecebb36176b8 at mail.samoff.com [6] http://ppp-70-244-240-232.dsl.ksc2mo.swbell.net [7] mailto:rabelg5 at gmail.com [8] http://www.internettablettalk.com/2008/12/02/internet-tablet-talk-to-become-talkmaemoorg/ [9] http://talk.maemo.org [10] mailto:maemo-community at maemo.org [11] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community [12] http://tim.samoff.com --=_c3ec5b05f47c8ef47d14197525ae0a1f Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <p> Reggie, </p> <p> Concerning the front page of maemo.org, one of my suggestions during the IR= C meeting yesterday was to "mashup" all of the news/planet/talk e= xcerpts into a single _hot topics_ (or "Latest News" or whetever)= area, so that all of the content was equal on the front page. Of course, e= ach of these different types of content could be signified by an icon (or s= omething)... </p> <p> What is your opinion of this method? Or, is it important that news/etc be d= istinctly separated from the forum content? </p> <p> Thanks, </p> <p> Tim </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:04:58 -0500, "Reggie Suplido" wrote: </p> <blockquote style=3D"border-left: 2px solid #1010ff; padding-left: 5px; mar= gin-left: 5px; width: 100%"> From my experience, the labels don't really mean much -- it's really how y= ou lead the visitors to the forum/discussions pages. I've seen successful s= ites using Forum, Forums, Community, Discuss, etc., even just plain talk bu= bble icons with no labels. The way to encourage visitors to join the discus= sion is to have some sort of 'Active Topics' or "Hot Topics" some= where on the main page and other important pages of the site. Once they see= where the forum is, they know where to go next time. <div> <br /> </div> <div> Btw, majority of first time visitors find the forum threads via Google. </div> <div> <br /> </div> <div> <br /> <br /> <div class=3D"gmail_quote"> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Tim <span><<a href=3D"mailto:tim at samof= f.com">tim at samoff.com</a>></span> wrote:<br /> <blockquote style=3D"border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0= .8ex; padding-left: 1ex"> <div class=3D"Ih2E3d"> <<a href=3D"mailto:1C662167-381E-42A8-8AE4-3EC60C09D22A at gmail.com">1C6= 62167-381E-42A8-8AE4-3EC60C09D22A at gmail.com</a>><br /> </div> <<a href=3D"mailto:496DF00C.8010700 at maemo.org">496DF00C.8010700 at maemo.= org</a>> <<a href=3D"mailto:2795CD14-DC7C-4039-97D8-255BCC18F5D0 at gmai= l.com">2795CD14-DC7C-4039-97D8-255BCC18F5D0 at gmail.com</a>><br /> Message-ID: <<a href=3D"mailto:e79680cec1dec4381f5cecebb36176b8 at mail.s= amoff.com">e79680cec1dec4381f5cecebb36176b8 at mail.samoff.com</a>><br /> <div class=3D"Ih2E3d"> X-Sender: <a href=3D"mailto:tim at samoff.com">tim at samoff.com</a><br /> Received: from <a href=3D"http://ppp-70-244-240-232.dsl.ksc2mo.swbell.net= " target=3D"_blank">ppp-70-244-240-232.dsl.ksc2mo.swbell.net</a> [70.244.24= 0.232] with<br /> </div> HTTP/1.1 (POST); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:06:38 -0= 700<br /> <div class=3D"Ih2E3d"> User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1-rc2<br /> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"UTF-8"<br /> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit<br /> <br /> <br /> </div> > Let's CC Reggie.<br /> <br /> I think he's on maemo-community.<br /> <br /> T.<br /> <div> <div class=3D"Wj3C7c"> <br /> <br /> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:02:51 -0500, Ryan Abel <<a href=3D"mailto:rabel= g5 at gmail.com">rabelg5 at gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br /> > On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Dave Neary wrote:<br /> ><br /> >> Ryan Abel wrote:<br /> >><br /> >>> On Jan 14, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Dave Neary wrote:<br /> >>><br /> >>>> Why the insistence on "Talk" (which anyone not= currently on ITt<br /> >>>> won't<br /> >>>> understand the meaning of) rather than "Forum"= (which everyone and<br /> >>>> his<br /> >>>> dog now knows the meaning of)? Is there some justoficati= on I'm<br /> >>>> missing?<br /> >>><br /> >>> Because that is what was decided.<br /> >>><br /> >>><br /> ><br /> <a href=3D"http://www.internettablettalk.com/2008/12/02/internet-tablet-t= alk-to-become-talkmaemoorg/" target=3D"_blank">http://www.internettablettal= k.com/2008/12/02/internet-tablet-talk-to-become-talkmaemoorg/</a><br /> >><br /> >> I can understand that Internet Tablet Talk is to be renamed as<b= r /> >> <a href=3D"http://talk.maemo.org" target=3D"_blank">talk.maemo.o= rg</a> - what I'm wondering is why we have to refer to it as<br /> >> "talk" rather than, say, "forum". A label wh= ich some people not in the<br /> >> Maemo community might have some chance of understanding, and thu= s<br /> >> clicking more often.<br /> ><br /> > Let's CC Reggie.<br /> ><br /> > --<br /> > Ryan Abel<br /> > Maemo Community Council chair<br /> ><br /> </div> </div> <div class=3D"Ih2E3d"> > _______________________________________________<br /> > maemo-community mailing list<br /> > <a href=3D"mailto:maemo-community at maemo.org">maemo-community at maemo.o= rg</a><br /> > <a href=3D"https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community"= target=3D"_blank">https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community= </a><br /> </div> <font color=3D"#888888">--<br /> <a href=3D"http://tim.samoff.com" target=3D"_blank">http://tim.samoff.com= </a><br /> </font> <div> <div class=3D"Wj3C7c"> <br /> _______________________________________________<br /> maemo-community mailing list<br /> <a href=3D"mailto:maemo-community at maemo.org">maemo-community at maemo.org</a= ><br /> <a href=3D"https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community" targ= et=3D"_blank">https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community</a><= br /> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br /> </div> </blockquote> <span id=3D"_rc_sig"> <pre> http://tim.samoff.com </pre> </span> <p> </p> --=_c3ec5b05f47c8ef47d14197525ae0a1f--
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