Rob, How should I send the zip to you? I finished four placements, we can create more variations on the wording, it's a simple change.
Samer On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Samer Mansour <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob, > > My apologies holiday season is hectic I haven't had a chance to finish off > the variations. I have an early morning otherwise I would do it now. I will > aim for Monday to have it done. Next week work will also be very quite so I > will start building the 'like us' experiment pages as well then. > > Sam > > > On Wednesday, December 19, 2012, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Samer Mansour <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Ok I had the impression that it had to all be done before we start the >> > experiment to give them a good benchmark. >> >> >> Yes, we should have all of the variations for a given experiment >> before we start that experiment. I don't think Google let's us add >> new variations without restarting the experiment. >> >> > I have 4 done as of last night, I'm almost done a more elegant 5th one. >> The >> > separate section idea, but all the existing backgrounds have arrows >> > suggesting "download" or "get". I created its own "share" background >> > http://postimage.org/image/9brst32ex/ which we can clean up more if we >> > choose to go with it. I changed the Hue and replaced the images with the >> > vector art of Share I created in Inkscape. >> > >> >> Cool. >> >> > I have some errands after work, I might be able to churn out a few more >> > designs. I will also name them correctly before handing them off to >> you. >> > I just have to figure out paths and changes into a document (or here), >> so >> > that its clear what is to be changed/deployed and in what path. >> > >> >> Assume the files will end up in www.openoffice.org/download, alongside >> the current download/index.html page. >> >> -Rob >> >> >> > >> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Samer Mansour <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >> > Oh, I'm sooo excited. I can help with coding the different pages. We >> >> > could >> >> > do the like and share experiments separately so they are not >> affecting >> >> > each >> >> > others results. >> >> > >> >> > Lets start with a sharing experiment. >> >> > >> >> > We could make the labels "test1-footer" "test2-header" >> "test3-searchbar" >> >> > as >> >> > opposed to "facebook", "google", "twitter". We don't care which >> network >> >> > they pick, its the placement/wording/style whether they >> see/convenient >> >> > to >> >> > click it. The metric would sum the three buttons for each test, >> under >> >> > the >> >> > same label. >> >> > >> >> > We can all make friendly bets, like picking which horse will win a >> race. >> >> > Once we collectively come up with 9, we'll start a separate thread >> where >> >> > people can give their prediction. >> >> > >> >> > In the spirit of JFDI, I will make the variations you suggested Rob >> >> > right >> >> > now. I will wait until Tuesday Night for anyone else variation >> >> > suggestion >> >> > on this thread. >> >> > >> >> >> >> OK. I've made some changes to the main website to accommodate the >> >> experiment. The issues was that the website logic would automatically >> >> try to apply the site template to our test pages, wiping them out. >> >> With my change any page that ends in "-passthru.html" will be >> >> unprocessed by the site template and will be displayed as-is. So >> >> we'll need to name our test bases something like >> >> "social-variation1-passthru.html", etc. >> >> >> >> Let me know when you have some variations ready to test and I can get >> >> them provisioned onto the website. >> >> >> >> Also, we should avoid putting the actual test file names and links >> >> onto the mailing list. That would encourage list subscribers to load >> >> the pages and since our behavior differs from the random visitor's >> >> behavior this can distort the experiment, >> >> >> >> -Rob >> >> >> >> > >> >> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Samer Mansour <[email protected]> >> >> >> wrote: >> >> >> > 1. Progress on "Download Share" - Smaller images and text, >> >> >> > anti-aliased >> >> >> > using inkscape. >> >> >> > http://www.winsor.ca/samer/aootest2.htm >> >> >> > >> >> >> > 2. Progress made on possible template placements for "Follow >> >> >> > OpenOffice" >> >> >> > http://www.winsor.ca/samer/aootest3.htm - Left Nav Links & Header >> >> >> > Links >> >> >> > http://www.winsor.ca/samer/aootest4.htm - Title Nav Links & >> Footer >> >> >> > Links >> >> >> > >> >> >> > In 2. should we eliminate some placements? Or should we experiment >> >> >> > all 4 >> >> >> in >> >> >> > separate files? >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> As I understand it each Content Experiment needs to test one thing, >> >> >> have one goal that we measure. For example, we could measure % of >> >> >> visits that generate a page share via a social network. >> >> >> >> >> >> So it looks like we want to have at least two different content >> >> >> experiments: >> >> >> >> >> >> 1) On the download page, to test sharing. >> > > >
