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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] brain picking (web presense stuff)
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] brain picking (web presense stuff) |
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Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:02:47 -0800 (PST) |
> From: "Robert Anderson" <address@hidden>
> >Wow. That's a lot of replies.
> >By way of a straw-man, when I'm currently thinking is to try to fill
> >in all the links of this:
> > http://regexps.srparish.net/www/view.html
> Frankly, I think you're wasting your time to spend too much on
> content rather than presentation. To me, what you related
> sounded like (although it was a brief paraphrase) the classic
> issue of perception of "professional company with an 800 support
> number" vs. "bunch of hackers with a mailing list", and has
> almost nothing to do with substance.
> I think what was really needed there was a slick corporate
> looking web page, with a professional logo that fades, made by
> "branding experts", and a little picture of a smiling young
> female wearing a headset in one corner, with a phone number under
> her picture.
> Maybe that's slightly over-the-top, but probably not by much.
Yeah. Really, I think the truth is somewhere in between.
Yes, some additional "gloss" would be good. You can't get much more
simple-minded in web design than what I can produce.
But the "content issue" is real, I think. I'm trying to imagine
myself in the position of a manager whose primary focus isn't revision
control, but who is smart and concerned about that topic. What I
_think_ I'd really appreciate is a site that really condensed a lot of
the good stuff into a compact form --- that helped me to quickly come
up to speed on the issues and then understand, in that context, the
solution being offered.
Interestingly, I think that some of the competing sites pretty much
_fail_ at that. I'm not sure what to make of that. But at the same
time, the current arch sites fail even harder --- it's basically
impossible for someone to quickly get oriented about arch and that's a
real problem.
-t