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

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

Bob,
As usual, you've taught me something. I changed the home page title as you
suggested, and I'll ask Neil about the meta description.

Carol

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Doyle [mailto:bobdoyle@skybuilders.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 1:20 PM
To: Carol Geyer
Cc: DITA Editorial Board
Subject: Re: [dita-fa-edboard] A more engaging nav

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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