[Design] Banners on the Front Page

[Shaun McDonald]

Another option may be to have markers that appear on the map that can be turned of that give the locations of the events, so that if you can to a particular area you'll find out about those events.

Shaun

On 23 Mar 2013, at 19:40, Harry Wood <mail at harrywood.co.uk> wrote:

> > does it really make sense to have a banner on the
> > main page advertising a conference at all?
> 
> Yeah I think that's good point. I think people reflexively enjoy the shiny graphics of these banners on face value, but when we really think about it, it might not be a well targeted use of this screen space.
> 
> There's lots of things we could do with this screen space, including nothing at all, by which I mean the 'Make a donation' button and hosting credits get to be higher up the page (as it is now, during a "quiet" period when there's no banner there) Note that the side panel looks different and has more text appearing when you're not logged in, which can push these things below the fold anyway. It's not like we actually have spare screen space for a banner anyway.
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> While we're thinking outside the box, someone else was suggesting to me we bring in a feed, with the top three upcoming events, as decided by... some community process.  So a technical solution which would not involving asking sysops to deploy something with each change. I guess it might combine with the geoIP idea.
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> Kai was also making me think, given GeoIP look-ups, a more pertinent use of a bright banner would be to let visitors know about their "local chapter" main community website. e.g. german visitors to openstreetmap.org see a banner about openstreetmap.de
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> Of course if you think outside the box too much then you're into re-designing the front page :-)  I *was* thinking we'd end up designing a policy as a moderate variation on what we do already. Have banners for big events, but only allow SOTMUS to have a small banner for 3 weeks followed by a larger one for 3 days or something like that.
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> Harry
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