Re: [dita-fa-edboard] Tweaking the navigation

On 10/4/07, Carol Geyer <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org> wrote:

Okay, I'll ask Neil again.

He was looking at Drupal's nodewords module
http://drupal.org/project/nodewords. It would allow us to set descriptions for
every page, plus give us a lot more control over things like robots.txt files
to specifically disallow friendly search engines from indexing certain content.
He wasn't sure we'd actually use it. Would we?

--c

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Esrig [mailto:esrig-ia@esrig.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 6:22 PM
To: Carol Geyer; 'Bob Doyle'
Cc: 'DITA Editorial Board'
Subject: RE: [dita-fa-edboard] Tweaking the navigation

It's not just for SEO.

The description in the meta tag shows up in abstracts in some search results.

Bruce

At 06:01 PM 10/4/2007, Carol Geyer wrote:
>Bob,
>Thanks for the feedback on the tweaks. The teasers on the homepage are not
>just
>blogs, they're the most recent new posts of any kind. We can make them just
>blogs if we want--and/or publish more or less of them. It's pretty easy to
>configure.
>
>As for the meta description, Neil feels that meta tags are largely ignored by
>search engines these days. They're most often used by sites trying to
>artificially inflate their search engine rankings. He feels the best way
>to get
>good search engine rankings is to have good content, that other sites link to
>as good content, and to link to other good content.
>
>Thanks,
>Carol
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bob Doyle [mailto:bobdoyle@skybuilders.com]
>Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 2:49 PM
>To: Carol Geyer
>Cc: DITA Editorial Board
>Subject: Re: [dita-fa-edboard] Tweaking the navigation
>
>Hi Carol,
>
>I like the action/task orientation of browse - conribute, etc.
>
>I also like the title bar, where you incorporate the full tagline of the
>website.
>
>Now get Neil to add that tagline to the meta description.
>
>I like the full tease from five blog posts instead of the lonely titles we
>have
>on DITA.XML.org.
>
>Search in upper right would be a distinct improvement.
>
>Cheers.
>
>Bob.
>
>
>On 10/4/07, Carol Geyer < carol.geyer@oasis-open.org> wrote:
>
>         When you have a minute, please take a look at
> http://bpel.xml.org. This
>focus
>         area is still under construction, but I used the space to play
> around a
>bit
>         with the FA navigation in an effort to encourage contributions
> and make
>it
>         easier for people to quickly understand what's on the site.
> Instead of
>         organizing around "Knowledge base, Today, and Wiki", we give people
>ways of
>         interaction--Browse, Contribute, Discuss, Syndicate.
>
>         The wiki pages are the only Drupal "book" on the site, so users can
>easily add
>         new pages into the outline. The outline will be displayed in full at
>         http://bpel.xml.org/wiki-pages .
>
>         The homepage body features teasers of the five most recent pages. We
>can make
>         our current <soapbox> article "sticky" so it's always the first.
>
>         We could eliminate or reduce the horizontal orange rule and move
>everything up
>         a bit.
>
>         We could move the Search box to the upper right corner and move
> "About
>this
>         site" into the footer.
>
>         Please let me know what you think.
>
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