[OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

[Tom Hughes]

SteveC wrote:

> The other thing that could be better is the search engine optimisation  
> of the front page so that it shows up higher for some search terms  
> like "free maps" and stuff.

Why do I always want to barf when I hear somebody mention SEO...

> Anyway some thoughts are jotted down here:
> 
> 	http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Front_Page
> 
> There are a bunch of open questions like what design elements should  
> stay, what should go, what colour schemes would be neat. Feel free to  
> contribute and if it's useful we can build a design brief based on  
> comments and ideas... then if it's useful to the community we can have  
> them do some more design work to build some cool front page mockups.

In some ways of course the design is the easy bit, then we need a 
volunteer to do battle with javascript and try and implement the changes 
which is no mean feat on our frontpage I can assure you ;-)

Tom

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