Wayne, I would gladly help with the redesign. I would also like to suggest features that make the environment more of a social network like ning. That would be a dream come true. Thank you. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction http://www.wikieducator.org/EL4C21 http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller skype:nelliedeutschmuller
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Wayne Mackintosh <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi everyone > > Open questions: > > 1) Should WE redesign its homepage and important landing pages? > 2) Will improved information design of the WE main page and important > landing pages improve retention? > 3) Should WE form a working group to consider proposals for Website > redesign? > 4) If so -- do we have any volunteers who will put their hands up in > thinking about redesigning the website? (Especially folk who have good > experience in this area -- but everyone is most welcome to give a hand). > > A little background info > > Website referrals and direct traffic account for 26% of our total visits > with search engine referrals making up the balance. On average visitors > to WE view 3.62 pages per visit. What's interesting is that our home > page makes up only 3% of our total page views -- suggesting that folk do > find specific content pages in the wiki. > > Other top ranked pages, include, for instance: > > * The recent changes page > http://www.wikieducator.org/Special:RecentChanges > * The Content page which lists content projects > http://www.wikieducator.org/Content > * The India national page node > http://www.wikieducator.org/India > * The Iniatives page which lists projects in the wiki > http://www.wikieducator.org/Initiatives > * The Otago Polytechnic sales and marketing course page > http://www.wikieducator.org/Sales_and_Marketing > * The eXe online manual > http://www.wikieducator.org/Online_manual > * A lesson on Forms of Energy developed by the HOD of Technology > Education, University of Education, Winneba in Ghana > > http://www.wikieducator.org/Lesson_1:_Forms_of_Energy_and_Energy_Transformations > > It's risky to postulate definitive conclusions based on these stats but > I guess its reasonable to say: > > 1. Educators are interested in monitoring and observing changes in the > wiki > 2. Important landing pages include content listings, WE > initiatives/projects and national project nodes > 3. Individual content projects in WE do attract significant traffic. > > What does this mean for the information design of our site? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
