Re: Feedback on new site

I'll work on some of the 404s right now... Mike, can we get the SnipSnap RSS
feed read instead of our personal blogs? I think that'd go a long way.

-Pat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hani Suleiman" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:06 PM
Subject: [Opensymphony-developers] Feedback on new site


> First, everyone should don their flameproof suits right now, since I'm
> going to be a bit mean...
>
> Now, here are a bunch of issues with the new site (not including issues
> that have always existed, like the confusing and mostly irrelevant
> architecture diagram)
>
> 1) While it's nice to see a new site, I think it gives a terrible
> message that this site is now THE opensymphony.com, with 404's right
> off the main page, and a rather high number of pages looking rather out
> of place. I've fixed those that I could fix, but I'm pretty much
> working in the dark here
>
> 2) Given that the site is now 'the' main site, I'd expect that the wiki
> be updated to look consistent. This would have been fine if it was a
> day or two later, but it's been 4 days now and it makes me wince every
> time I see it. The navigation is also very different between jira and
> os.com
>
> 3) The front page story is incredibly unprofessional and gives across a
> TERRIBLE message. Some reasons:
>
> a) It assumes we all know who the author is, 'I am back' doesn't
> inspire much confidence in the organisation
>
> b) 'god that sounded cheesy' is somewhat inappropriate.
>
> c) 'we're planning an overhaul of the site'...err, the site HAS been
> overhauled
>
> d) 'things are looking AWESOME'...again, not exactly stuff that serious
> users buy into.
>
> The fact that there is a new website is a wonderful thing, it does look
> more modern than the old one (although the pastel colours are not to my
> taste, but oh well). Beyond the pretty colours though, I think it's
> unprofessional and gives across a pretty bad idea of what OS is and
> what it has to offer, which is a terrible shame. Granted, it's a beta
> site, but why couldn't it have been mapped onto a /beta url, so we can
> iron out these kinks before moving it over as the official website?
>
> Hani
>
>
>
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