On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Samer Mansour <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
If it is less than 25MB, you can mail it to me directly. Thanks! -Rob > 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. >>> > >> >>
