1. [tip of the week] "Tips" button at top of OE site?
- Posted by DanM Oct 04, 2010
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The "Tip of the Week" idea is so good, shouldn't there be a button at the top of the OE site to see accumulated Tips?
Dan
2. Re: [tip of the week] "Tips" button at top of OE site?
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Oct 04, 2010
- 1306 views
The "Tip of the Week" idea is so good, shouldn't there be a button at the top of the OE site to see accumulated Tips?
Dan
We have a wiki, so why not use that?
3. Re: [tip of the week] "Tips" button at top of OE site?
- Posted by DanM Oct 04, 2010
- 1316 views
The "Tip of the Week" idea is so good, shouldn't there be a button at the top of the OE site to see accumulated Tips?
Dan
We have a wiki, so why not use that?
Wiki's not a bad place for them, I just thought at the top of the OE site would be a better visual reminder that there are Tips, and to send tips, and slightly easier to find them.
4. Re: [tip of the week] "Tips" button at top of OE site?
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Oct 04, 2010
- 1297 views
We have a wiki, so why not use that?
Wiki's not a bad place for them, I just thought at the top of the OE site would be a better visual reminder that there are Tips, and to send tips, and slightly easier to find them.
Yeah, there are benefits to either approach. It actually wouldn't be a bad idea to integrate tips into the forum somehow. Especially as a submission. Obviously, that will require changes to the forum and isn't trivial.
The wiki does seem like a good place to put these. We can link to it from wherever, and other people can edit or add to them. And we've already got the mechanism for doing so.
Matt
5. Re: [tip of the week] "Tips" button at top of OE site?
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Oct 04, 2010
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We have a wiki, so why not use that?
The reason I suggested the forum is that it could be a weekly thing bringing traffic to the website on a weekly basis to read the new Tip of the Week. Also in my thinking is that most people don't visit the wiki or check what's new yet. Being on the forum it would gather more exposure.
It would be cool to archive the Tip of the Week on the Wiki. Maybe that would attract some attention to the wiki which is a great resource.
Jeremy
6. Re: [tip of the week] "Tips" button at top of OE site?
- Posted by DanM Oct 04, 2010
- 1350 views
We have a wiki, so why not use that?
The reason I suggested the forum is that it could be a weekly thing bringing traffic to the website on a weekly basis to read the new Tip of the Week. Also in my thinking is that most people don't visit the wiki or check what's new yet. Being on the forum it would gather more exposure.
It would be cool to archive the Tip of the Week on the Wiki. Maybe that would attract some attention to the wiki which is a great resource.
Jeremy
I don't think POSTINGS of Tips of the Week would bring traffic to the website, as posts "disappear" as new posts come in, whereas if there were a [tips] button at the top of the website, that would be a constant visual reminder to both read and post tips. But I also think they should be archived in the wiki as well.
7. Re: [tip of the week] "Tips" button at top of OE site?
- Posted by ChrisB (moderator) Oct 04, 2010
- 1283 views
Hi
A really great place to start would be to send some tips to
tw@openeuphoria.org
Remember, you can always do a forum search for 'tip of the week'
How about a tick box to 'show only 1st post in list' as otherwise get the whole thread which lengthens the search results. Or have a button that searches and displays only the Tip of the week titles.
Chris
8. Re: [tip of the week] "Tips" button at top of OE site?
- Posted by euphoric (admin) Oct 04, 2010
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A really great place to start would be to send some tips to
tw@openeuphoria.com
Isn't it totw@openeuphoria.org?
9. Re: [tip of the week] "Tips" button at top of OE site?
- Posted by CoJaBo Oct 04, 2010
- 1265 views
Er, why not post them as news, right on the homepage?
Right now, theres like, one news post every few month month on average- having weekly updates right on the front page would go a long way in making people think "hey, news updates posted just this week, this Euphoria website isn't dead afterall".
10. Re: [tip of the week] "Tips" button at top of OE site?
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Oct 04, 2010
- 1283 views
The "Tip of the Week" idea is so good, shouldn't there be a button at the top of the OE site to see accumulated Tips?
Dan
We have a wiki, so why not use that?
Wiki's not a bad place for them, I just thought at the top of the OE site would be a better visual reminder that there are Tips, and to send tips, and slightly easier to find them.
Sorry, I wasn't too clear. The Tips button is a good idea and it should link to the collected tips so far, which would be on the wiki. The most recent ToW could also be on the site's home page.
11. Re: [tip of the week] "Tips" button at top of OE site?
- Posted by DanM Oct 05, 2010
- 1263 views
The "Tip of the Week" idea is so good, shouldn't there be a button at the top of the OE site to see accumulated Tips?
Dan
We have a wiki, so why not use that?
Wiki's not a bad place for them, I just thought at the top of the OE site would be a better visual reminder that there are Tips, and to send tips, and slightly easier to find them.
Sorry, I wasn't too clear. The Tips button is a good idea and it should link to the collected tips so far, which would be on the wiki. The most recent ToW could also be on the site's home page.
Sounds good to me!
And another complementary idea might be to "thumbtack" the most recent Tip as a post at the top of the forum's list of posts, or maybe the whole "thread" of tips?
12. Re: [tip of the week] "Tips" button at top of OE site?
- Posted by ChrisB (moderator) Oct 05, 2010
- 1235 views
Hi
All these are great ideas, so why not start by sending me your tips to
tw@openeuphoria.org
That way I can start storing and releasing them, weekly, into the forum, as first intimated.
Lets not let this descend into the usual morass of ideas with subsequent disagreement and inaction that has so often littered euphorias history. (No, I'm not trying to stifle ideas, just trying to get things moving)
Send me your tips, and we'll let the idea grow and develop over time.
Chris
13. Re: [tip of the week] "Tips" button at top of OE site?
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Oct 05, 2010
- 1217 views
All these are great ideas, so why not start by sending me your tips to
tw@openeuphoria.org
No. Don't do that, please. Tips should go to totw@openeuphoria.org.
Matt
14. Re: [tip of the week] "Tips" button at top of OE site?
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Oct 05, 2010
- 1217 views
Sounds good to me!
And another complementary idea might be to "thumbtack" the most recent Tip as a post at the top of the forum's list of posts, or maybe the whole "thread" of tips?
The current focus is on moving to a new host. So far, things are looking pretty good. Once that is done, we can start looking into improving the site more.
Matt
15. Re: [tip of the week] "Tips" button at top of OE site?
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Oct 05, 2010
- 1254 views
All these are great ideas, so why not start by sending me your tips to
tw@openeuphoria.org
No. Don't do that, please. Tips should go to totw@openeuphoria.org.
Matt
Maybe we should make tw@ an alias of totw@ ?
