On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 19:38:17 -0500 (EST), Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Martin Cooper wrote: > > > On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 17:28:34 -0500 (EST), Henri Yandell > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Martin Cooper wrote: > >> > >>> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 20:50:28 -0500 (EST), Henri Yandell > >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Next up is to clean up various bits on the large front page. Here's the > >>>> list of changes. For each one, if I don't hear a -1 by Tuesday I'll go > >>>> ahead and make the change. > >>>> > >>>> 4) Removal of Graduated from the left navbar. > >>> > >>> I haven't kept up with all of the discussion in the last few days - > >>> why are we removing this? IMHO, it's still valuable for the less > >>> frequent visitor to our site. > >> > >> Graduated is a confusing concept that we then have to somehow explain. > > > > Then let's just call it Ex-Jakarta. > > Seems okay :) I'll promote this suggestion to a new thread, see if anyone > disagrees. > > >> Additionally, how long would we maintain links to said projects etc? > > > > 6 months to a year. > > > > Let me ask the reverse question: How long would you keep the link to a > > subproject once it leaves? Would you remove it as soon as the project > > leaves, or keep it around for a while? If the latter, why wouldn't you > > move it to an Ex-Jakarta section instead? > > Spent an hour pondering it, and I'm swayed by your arguments. > > I'm happy too keep the links to old Jakarta sites. The only real problem > it causes us is when things get closed (Avalon), but those projects should > have sites kept up anyway.
And hopefully what happened with Avalon won't happen very often... > By News section, I'd meant the front page. Given the tighter mock, an item > in the news section of the front page is pretty prominent, but it's > probably more valueable spacewise than the bottom left of the navbar, so > maintaining links to ex-jakarta is much better. > > >>>> 7) Removal of Our Mission. Redirect to front page. > >>> > >>> This seems to me like an important thing to have stated up front. If > >>> what we have now isn't what we think we're about, we should fix it > >>> rather than removing it. If we don't think we can fix it, then we have > >>> a serious problem. ;-) > >> > >> It's a pointless page. The Welcome + Navbars contains all the information > >> it has, so it just adds to the general clutter. > > Any comment on this? Can 'Our Mission' go? I guess so. It just feels like something we should have, but, as you mentioned, we don't really have much of anything to say at the moment. -- Martin Cooper --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
