[OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

[Celso González]

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:16:21AM +0100, "Jonas Krückel (John07)" wrote:
> Ian Dees schrieb:
> > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:51 PM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com 
> > <mailto:steve at asklater.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     I asked the CM designers for some quick hacks on what different front
> >     pages could look like which you can see on the wiki page below. There
> >     are some very quick ideas there but it's not a full picture by a long
> >     way.
> >
> >
> >  To get some conversation going:
> >
> > I really like the Fp4.jpg[1] example on the URL you gave, Steve. It's 
> > important to make the map (and thus its data) the largest GUI element 
> > on the page. The buttons along the top draw my eye up there to see 
> > what's available. I also like the "Shop" link idea.
> >
> > After looking at all of the examples, Fp4.jpg seems to be the one that 
> > is the simplest and most eye-catching.
> >
> > [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Image:Fp4.jpg
> I also like that. Unfortunately i can´t find a link to the wiki :-) I 
> think the wiki is very important and must get a big link.

Yep in fp4 Wiki is missing and we have User diaries, News and Blog. Without entering in
the opengeodata blog war i think they are similar things

> I also like Fp1.jpg because of the news section. I would change "Edit" 
> to "Edit Map"!

I prefer fp1. 

Anyway I think the greatest thing of the new designs is to show the 'Map Legend' 

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Celso González (PerroVerd)
http://mitago.net