I wouldn't mind at all if people completely new to J took a minute to at least skim the home page.
I think we're more likely to lose people because they are bewildered by NuVoc than we are to lose people because it took them a minute and two clicks to find it. On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 3:43 PM Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > Could there be a little graphic of NuVoc on a front-page link? The sort > of user who would be excited by a picture of a table of primitives is > the sort of person we would like to impress. > > Henry Rich > > On 2/27/2020 3:39 PM, Eric Iverson wrote: > > NuVoc is reasonably front and center. > > > > At the web site home page: > > wiki-main page -> main page - guides - Nuvoc > > > > From the home page it is 2 clicks away. > > > > JHS menu wiki has a link to NuVoc. > > > > Jqt menu help has vocab that is a link to NuVoc. > > > > As a community we could perhaps be better in pointing this out to users. > > When answering a question it can be good to follow up with pointers to > > relevant docs such as nuvoc. > > > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 3:20 PM Devon McCormick <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Hi - I was talking with a group of non-J array-programmers last night > and > >> one of them opined that the NuVoc page should be front and center when > >> someone looks at the J site. > >> > >> I agree with this as it presents a high-level overview of the language > as > >> the first thing people will see. I imagine some will be intimidated > away > >> but others will be intrigued and we want to engage the latter. > >> > >> Maybe this should be on "J-chat" but I'm interested in what others > think of > >> this proposal. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Devon McCormick, CFA > >> > >> Quantitative Consultant > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
