Hi all, Please check the proposal below.
The problem =========== Newbie stuff is mixed with community stuff. Web pages have to take both use cases into account which makes them complex. See current www.zeromq.org page that has tremendous amount of links, some of them intended to make life easy for newbies, some of them, on the other hand, are to be used only by experienced users or 0MQ developers. The use cases ============= The newbie ---------- Newbie is trying to solve a problem. He does a google search that returns a list of products. Among them is 0MQ. However, the link points to www.zeromq.org. Newbie has ~30 secs to evaluate whether particular product can solve his problem. He clicks on the link and gets to a www.zeromq.org. There are ~100 links on the page and a lot of expert content. Newbie is confused and moves to another product in the google resultlist. Note: www.zeromq.com is made to help a newbie, however, it doesn't show as a primary link for 0MQ in search engines. Newbie will get to www.zeromq.org. Website statistics show that there's almost no traffic on www.zeromq.com directly from the search engines. Instead, newbies get there by clicking through www.zeromq.org The expert ---------- The expert uses www.zeromq.org site and ignores www.zeromq.com. However, given that all the newbies click through www.zeromq.org, there's a lot of annoying newbie-related stuff on www.zeromq.org: A big clickable picture that points to www.zeromq.com, random marketing texts explaining what 0MQ is and why it's better than competing products, user quotes etc. The solution ============ Move the newbie page (current www.zeromq.com) to www.zeromq.org. Move current www.zeromq.org to www.zeromq.org/community. The impact ========== All search engine accesses would lead to the newbie page. The newbie page would allow for 30 sec evaluation of the project + easy access to the download. Community members would have to click through the newbie page. Nothing would prevent them to bookmark the community page though. The community page could be greatly simplified, given there will no more newbies hanging around there. Martin _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
