Re: Revamp of the www.ietf.org website

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Hi,

> On 26 Jul 2017, at 07:51, Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> FWIW, I also agree with Andrew.
> 
> But I had an added comment about the front or other entrances.
> If I look at the current IETF website, I don’t think it would be too
> hard for the “front door” to be an entrance for everybody. Most
> of us don’t need an explanation of what the IETF is or the like,
> but even on the current website, there aren’t too many things
> that I normally click. I click on the “next meeting”, “next meeting’s
> agenda” a *lot*. I don’t remember if the datatracker is hiding
> somewhere on the current website, but I certainly go to the
> datatracker a lot. I also go to the WG list quite often, to
> look up something that I don’t remember from an unfamiliar
> area etc. I click on the blog now and then. But that’s about
> it.

Mentally I have already retreated from beta.ietf.org as a useful page for a participant. But I can accept that; the current page is unwelcoming or an “outsider”, and we could use a better public “face”.

> If those things were one click from the new web site…
> and the rest would be neatly organised, that would certainly
> do it for me. I don’t see how adding those to the otherwise
> more “information about the IETF” website would be hard.

Well, if it’s “one click away”, participants will just bookmark or go directly to that page, and not www.ietf.org. I know I will.  Just like I sometimes also go directly to the datatracker. 

> For added bonus, maybe the most recent last
> call / most recent blog article / most recent call for
> hotel reservations opening or the like were to be also
> displayed, the front door would give me an added
> benefit of possibly stumbling on information that I
> needed.

Put all that on a one screen, participant oriented “index” page that we can go directly to.  Leave www.ietf.org to be the public shop window.

Tim





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