Re: [dita-fa-edboard] A more engaging nav

["Bob Doyle" <bobdoyle@skybuilders.com>]

Hi Carol,

WiserEarth is a nicely designed site. It's one of few that design for the new XGA monitors (1024x768).

The site could definitely benefit from a usability makeover.

Perhaps we should all read Jakob Nielsen's book on Home pages, especially his five top recommendations.

For example, our home page title is "<soapbox> | DITA.XML.org". I think "DITA.XML.org Online Community" would improve our Google Quality Score.

Another key characteristic of optimized sites is to have the tagline in the meta description. We don't have a meta description.

Featuring the community contribution possibilities is fine, but the site itself cannot easily change the behavior of the community it serves.  

Cheers.

Bob.

On 10/3/07, Carol Geyer <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org> wrote:

I came across an interesting community site, http://www.wiserearth.org/. I
particularly like how the left nav encourages people to contribute content.
Should we consider something like this for DITA XML.org?

--carol

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