On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 09:49:05AM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Hi, > > On 03/09/2015 05:58 PM, Zacharias Mitzelos wrote: > >Where do you think we should place the > >Categories of the Magazine? In our current theme, we've placed them next > >to the Magazine logo. Any ideas? I really like that the top blue bar is > >empty though, and contains only the logo and the social media buttons. > > I gave Ryan some feedback while he was working on this and recommended that > we just drop the categories. We talked it over at length and concluded it > was the best way to go. The problem with our current categories is that for > the most part they are audience-focused, eg "For Contributors" "For users." > But we couldn't find any examples of magazines online that do this - online > magazines use topical categories, not audience-based ones. Let your readers > decide what they are interested in instead of choosing for them - if you > really feel the need to have a dividing line like that it'd make more sense > to have a separate publication for each audience. > > The other thing is that a lot of users hitting Fedora magazine posts, based > on our referral logs, are coming from start.fpo in which case we have a far > more powerful way to direct them to other content they'd be most interested > in on the site - we know they clicked on the link to the article they're > viewing, so if we want to keep them on the site and pursuing around we'd > best offer articles related to or similar to that. You can see Ryan > exploited this in the design by having related posts as the most visible > piece of content besides the article content in the upper right side of the > article display; recent posts are below that which - in part - helps the > users understand this is a living site and actively updated so they know > they can visit again to get more, newer content later. > > Make sense? It does. One of my concerns has been the invasion of inward-looking Fedora community articles, which seem out of place for appealing to a broad audience. (e.g. "What's FESCo?") At first the idea of a separate site appeals to me. However, it would be interesting to see if the bit of redesign you raised -- the related content feeds -- would serve that purpose partly. On top of that, we could base the front page's feed on a desired topic, as opposed to just "latest news." -- 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/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List info or to change your subscription: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
