I think it ought to be the Zippy cartoon. Seriously though – in the Age of Google, what sort of person makes first contact with a website via the homepage?
On my next night-off, instead of browsing YouTube I think I'll type the name of every dot-com I can think of, and see what comes up. On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 20:55, Eric Iverson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
