On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 03:29:27PM -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:51 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:44:25AM -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: > > > That being said, I along with sijis from the websites team personally > > > invested a *ton* of time and effort into the spins.fedoraproject.org > > > redesign to make sure our spins look just as sexy as the default > > > install. > > > > And it looks fantastic: http://spins.fedoraproject.org > > > > As was planned and reported here in the past several times, when the > > whole redesign is finished all the sites will match this level of > > awesome. Everyone felt it was important to prioritize the spins site > > *first*, not *last*. > > A point made more visible here is that we had a redesign of both get.fpo > and www.fpo planned to happen in conjunction with the spins.fpo website > to ensure traffic was directed towards spins.fpo. > > Because of time and resource constraints during the F12 cycle, the > spins.fpo site was implemented as a bit of an 'island' so the drivers to > the site we'd had planned (banners on the main www.fpo site and get.fpo > page) never happened. Whoops. (I assure you this was not due to malice, > more many rushed, late nights and a failure on my part to plan out a > proper plan B instead of leaving those threads to spins.fpo completely > loose.) > > So I would like to propose that we make some extremely short-term > changes to get.fpo right now, as we strive towards the full get.fpo [1] > and www.fpo [2] redesigns that will drive traffic to and integrate with > spins.fpo in the fashion we'd originally intended: > > - Where it says, 'KDE fans, go here!' on the current get.fpo, we replace > that text with: 'Go to KDE and other spins!' and it will instead link to > spins.fpo - > http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora > > - On the buttom of the column of blue buttons on the right, we place the > attached banner to link users over to spins.fpo > > Do these proposals seem a reasonable short-term solution while we wait > on the full website revamp? > > ~m > > [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Website_redesign_2009/Mockups/Get.fpo > [2] http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/fedora-website-design-ideas/ The top button has been changed as above. I'm afraid I didn't see the second banner when I read this so it wasn't mentioned in my ticket, so I'll file another to get that added too. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
