Re: Why the change? (was Re: Today's transition for www.ietf.org)

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On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 04:07:54PM +1300, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> I think the problem of new people finding themselves on the home page
> could have easily been fixed on the old site by adding a prominent
> "Who we are and what we do" link there.

My reading of the literature on user engagement with web sites --
particularly new users -- is that such a strategy does not work.  I'm
by no means an expert, though.

> I think it was not to break any *important* links, wasn't it?

Point taken.  Still,

> There was a quite long list of "sacred" links that was available for
> community comment. If your favourite link is not in there, you know who
> to blame. If a link in that list is broken, the contractor is to blame.
> I'm not sure if it's the final version, but a version is included in
> https://iaoc.ietf.org/documents/IETF-Website-SOW-20140604-Final.pdf

various meetings-related items are there, which appeared to be among
the notable complaints people have.

Best regards,

A

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