[Marketing] wiki question

[Sean DALY]

I forgot to add, the home link in the navbar is not enough because it
is tiny. A logo link fulfills the same function as a download pancake
button: you don't have to hunt for a tiny text link.

First-time visitors will not want the wiki homepage, they will want
the website homepage. And the homepage is very clean :-) with only
four choices in the top navbar so they can find the wiki no problem



On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes Christian, that was me
>
> My position is that since prior to the press release Google was not
> showing any part of the static intro, most visitors and in particular
> first-time visitors would land on the wiki... and have no idea the
> static intro even existed.
>
> The wiki is so easy to get lost in, I usually pull back to the wiki
> homepage and try to drill down from there. It would be a lot to expect
> from first-time visitors to make that effort.
>
> It's the same situation with a.sl.o by the way, the static page is
> unavailable from there - you can go in right from our homepage, but
> you can't get back to the homepage through nav, only through the back
> button. We mitigated these risks by having the wiki or a.sl.o open in
> a separate window, but of course this creates a problem when viewing
> from the Browse Activity.
>
> David did a great job of rewriting the wiki homepage to orient
> teachers and parents to the static intro and the wiki logo pointing to
> the homepage fulfills the same function.
>
> Now that the press release has gone out, Google is proposing the
> homepage in #1, immediately followed by wiki pages. But, the link
> lacks the "www." and the descriptive text is bad.
>
> So my proposal is:
>
> * fix how Google shows the homepage. Luke has an idea about how to do
> that, we just have to suggest updated text from "Spin-off of the
> "Sugar" desktop environment to another project." I would suggest
> something like "Makers of the Sugar Learning Platform for Children."
> or "Software for learning, with others", etc. Marketers: your ideas
> please!
>
> * Harmonize the top menu bar across the static intro, wiki, and
> a.sl.o. This will probably mean losing some of the wiki links,
> otherwise the bar will be too long.
>
> * Monitor any changes in Google results over the next week. Remember,
> the education mailing has not gone out yet, I've not had the time to
> finalize the target list :-( but each mailing should reinforce
> www.sugarlabs.org
>
> * Analyze the stats to see if visitors are coming in from the wiki or not.
>
> * If the nav problems are solved, fold the wiki and a.sl.o openings
> into the single window and revisit the wiki logo question.
>
> thanks
>
> Sean
>
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> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Christian Marc Schmidt
> <christianmarc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Sean--I noticed that clicking on the wiki logo takes you back to the
>> static site. I know this was debated over the weekend, but I think it would
>> be more intuitive if clicking the logo took you back to the *wiki* home.
>> After all, we also have the "home" link in the top nav. Just a thought.
>>
>>
>> Christian
>>
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