[10:57] <mpt> newz2000, you mentioned too many links as a clue to lack of credibility in a Web site
[10:58] <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..."
[11:02] <mpt> and looking at the respective sites you can see he has a point
[14:53] <newz2000> mpt: yes, good examples
[14:55] <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
[14:56] <mpt> Maybe I have a subconscious synonym detector. :-) (Parked domains often have lots of synonyms)
[14:57] <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?
[14:58] <mpt> They're both pretty dire
[14:59] <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.
[15:01] <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.
[15:02] <newz2000> By banner ad do you mean somethign that people instintctively ignore?
[15:02] <newz2000> i.e. is that why you dislike it?
[15:05] <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
[22:27] <jpds> newz2000: I think I'll sigh at bug #258444.
[22:28] <ubot3> Malone bug 258444 in ubuntu-website "Please change Turkish mirrors location to Europe" [High,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/258444