On 03/10/2015 05:29 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
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.
I really like this idea. It would allow us to have select content about
the community on the user-facing site, with a link to the post on the
community-focussed site.
--ryanlerch
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."
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