[OSM-talk] Front page design and SEO

[wer-ist-roger]

> So, like Richard I don't like the idea of just tinkering with the css and
> layout. Better to be radical. Ideally a concerted effort for different
> people and web developers to come up with the look and feel and then
> compare the different versions. One is likely to win out, or perhaps more
> than one will be preferable, just like the German portal I am sure is
> probably used by many German speakers as their first point of call.

It is right that the German page want to be a more user friendly but I hope we 
don't get something like this for the internation page because the German 
version isn't quite that good (even though it's a step into the right 
direction). The map is just too small and there is just too much to see: 
comercial at the right and tones of links to the left and the bottom.
For that I allways link to the international page and not the german page if 
somebody wants to know more about the project or just want to take a look at 
the map.

I like the p4 mockup from the wiki-page. Some issues about this mockup have 
already been posted here so I won't go into that (I just mention missing 
wiki/help link and the "shop tab" - issu).
p1 is also quite good but still looks a little too much like the current 
version which makes it look a little old. But maybe it's not so bad to have a 
page which looks alot like the current one that the people recognise it.