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| mpt | newz2000, you mentioned too many links as a clue to lack of credibility in a Web site | 10:57 |
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| mpt | http://www.zmogo.com/gear/the-new-year-linux-resolution-day-5/ includes the morsel: "So, the first step in my clandestine scheme is to get Wine set up. I chose Wine mainly because its site is more appealing looking than VMware’s, which has all the sleek design features and well-considered organization of an expired domain name..." | 10:58 |
| mpt | and looking at the respective sites you can see he has a point | 11:02 |
| newz2000 | mpt: yes, good examples | 14:53 |
| newz2000 | yet if you worked at VMware what would you tell the people on your team was wrong with your website? | 14:55 |
| mpt | It hadn't occurred to me that I can tell whether a site is a parked domain within about 1 second | 14:55 |
| mpt | not sure why | 14:55 |
| mpt | Maybe I have a subconscious synonym detector. :-) (Parked domains often have lots of synonyms) | 14:56 |
| newz2000 | Wow, that would have to be a remarkably fast synonym detector to operate within 1 second | 14:57 |
| newz2000 | mpt: do you like the wine website better than vmware's? | 14:57 |
| mpt | They're both pretty dire | 14:58 |
| mpt | but the Wine one has at least stuff that's obviously supposed to be looked at first | 14:59 |
| mpt | It has a focus. | 14:59 |
| mpt | With the VMWare site, there are five-ish areas of text that have almost identical emphasis, and the other big block looks like a banner ad. | 14:59 |
| mpt | I think the single biggest improvement to the VMWare site would be to freeze the animation, and make it colored text on white background instead of white text on colored background. | 15:01 |
| mpt | That would make it look 90% less like an ad. | 15:01 |
| newz2000 | By banner ad do you mean somethign that people instintctively ignore? | 15:02 |
| newz2000 | i.e. is that why you dislike it? | 15:02 |
| newz2000 | I mean why do you dislike the idea of banner ads on a homepage promoting stuff? You've mentioned this complaint before about the graphics on ubuntu.com | 15:05 |
| * newz2000 is curious, not trying to go psychiatrist on you | 15:05 | |
| jpds | newz2000: I think I'll sigh at bug #258444. | 22:27 |
| ubot3 | Malone bug 258444 in ubuntu-website "Please change Turkish mirrors location to Europe" [High,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/258444 | 22:28 |
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