Re: Give more space on Home page for Upcoming Events

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 08:02 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:

> There's, IMHO, absolutely no need to fit the entire frontpage above
> the
> fold as it is now.

Not sure what you mean

> We only need to fit the most important parts for
> new/casual visitors, which is latest version and latest news.

*most important parts* surely includes latest events as well?

General comments:

I'm not sure if my analysis of what is happening with the events section
got lost in the noise? Events are appearing on the home page with
insufficient time to book them, sometimes as little as 1 day. That
wasn't the case when the current design was thought out; it is now. News
mostly stays news whenever you read it - that isn't true for the events.

New/casual visitors are exactly the audience that we want to attract to
events, especially the ones like Devrim's or my planned event that are
information sessions for PostgreSQL newbies. New/casuals cannot see
events further than a few days ahead and they have no visual clue to
indicate that there are any others. That seems pretty much guaranteed to
lower attendance at events, which is bad for PostgreSQL.

Do we have any figures to confirm/deny that? Clickthru rates on events
on main page vs events on secondary event page? ISTM there will be a
clear quantitative effect from not putting things on the home page.

My main point was not Home Page redesign, I think its very good. I'm
happy to make the Home Page less busy, but not at the expense of
important information. IMHO "less busy" is a qualitative judgement, not
a measurement. I'm discussing measurable effects on our advocacy
efforts.

--
Simon Riggs
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com