[openbeos] Re: New website home page mockup

On 8/28/06, Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki) <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

Hi Urias, Jonas & Tom,

Jonas Sundström wrote:
> "Urias McCullough" <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  ...
>
>> Also, the description of Haiku in the upper left corner
>> seems like a waste of precious space.  People who
>> visit the site often will not need to read that - it should
>> be replaced with a "What is Haiku" link or something IMO.
>>
>
> We need the frontpage to inspire curiosity in first-time visitors, and
> if possible, get them hooked on Haiku. If a person starts reading the
> intro blurb (and likes it), he/she might just stay long enough to
> figure out what other link to click: screenshots, general architecture,
> team page or whatever one might want to know as a new-comer. I think it
> would be a mistake to not have any easy content on the frontpage. It's
> like free sausage snippets at the supermarket.
>

The description may be obvious for many of us, but as Jonas points out,
it is necessary for those who do not know what Haiku is (hopefully there
will be more of those in the future :-).




Maybe we could set it up then so that the page looks /slightly/ different
after logging into the site?  Other aspects of the site could be changed
this way also I suppose. Maybe we can provide some level of "tweaking" in
each user's profile to change the site such that it aspires to their tastes.

Maybe this wouldn't be a good idea - I don't know.  It certainly would be
more work for the website devs.

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