On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, guy keren wrote: > and if they had a very clear link, at the top of the page, written in > hebrew, that links to the newcomers series, that's all they realy need. > what you're doing now, is fix a bug in the ads, by breaking the web site. > now, didn't the ads contain '/newcomers' as part of the URL?
The ads didn't include '/newcomers' because it breaks the ad design and people remember shorter domains of the form "www.something.tld" better than a longer URL. > > Most new visitors to Haifux come via a search engine to an internal page, > > and are not affected by the redirect. I agree the we should not redirect > > people who visited Haifux via a link (from a search engine or otherwise), > > but just those who typed the URL in (I can add this simple fix). > > well, what are you waiting for? add it, until you come back to your > senses, and disable this silly redirection. and until then, make the > english link at the top of the site _MUCH MUCH_ larger.. for example, > large enough so it will be noticeable - they way it is written, it seems > like a link to some legal mambo-jambo, that is common on sites, and > usually appears in a very very small font (not to mention making it black, > which makes it hardly noticeable). I've made the English link larger. Changing the redirect requires root access, which I currently do not have. The script that does the checks is already ready at http://www.haifux.org/cgi-bin/ipredir.pl > lets try to avoid breaking things that work, while trying to fix things > that don't. I agree. > > This link exists in any case. There is also a small English link at the > > top of the newcomers site for people redirected by mistake. > > the link on haifux's front page is written in english, and using wording > that makes it not so clear that it is indeed a link. better write instead > "click here to get to the new 'welcome to linux' page". and have it in > hebrew, with words such as "lich'tzu kan kedei lir'ot et hadaf shel > sidrat ha'hartzaot 'bruchim habaim lelinux' hachadasha". if you have the > link in this way, you'll be able to drop the redirect, and avoid the > confusion. Orna, can you do this change? I still perfer the link to be in English though. > and until then, at least make the english link at the top of the W2L page > much much more visible. Done. Alon -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ:1366540 GPG public key at http://alon.wox.org/pubkey.txt Key fingerprint = A670 6C81 19D3 3773 3627 DE14 B44A 50A3 FE06 7F24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=[ Random Fortune ]=- Nothing happens. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
