Just a quick note: the number of ads on the site has been greatly reduced now. We hope that will make things immediately more usable. Redesign is underway, we will probably ask for more feedback next week.
Thanks everyone, Rainer On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 9:45 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > The good is the content pages > > the bad navigation to find them. The download, bideo tutorials, guides, > and plugins links are less obvious than the advertising links to kiwi syslog > > the ugly, the site has a lot of stuff on it around the content, which > makes it hard to see what's what (and is bad on small screens). some of the > advertisements are setup in a way that doesn't make it obvious that it's an > ad. As I look at the page right now, the add at the top of the page, it > text larger than the orange rsyslog menu bar says > > Log Management System > tibco.com/LogManagement > Secure, Predict, & Manage Big Data with TIBCO LogLogic. Free Webinar. > > _I_ had to look at it a couple times to realize that it was an ad, not > part of the site. > > what to change > > At the risk of making things more cluttered, I think the main page should > have > > A list of the most recent releases, being links to the changelog. > > If there is recent (say within the last month), significant non-release > news, it should be at the top of the page. > > The remainder of the main page should ideally be a varient of the 'octopus > diagram' showing all the modules (I would add the mm modules above the > center rsyslog core box) with all the modules being links to the doc page > for that module, and the core rsyslog box being a link to an index page > that covers all the other topic (a small version of this diagram should be > on every other page as a button to link back to this main page. > > the Professional Services box should also list custom modules > > > We need to go back to basics and think about this main page, with the > question in mind, why do we have it? > > what are people looking for when they hit this page? what do we want them > to do? > > Think advertising and landing page types of things. What makes a visit to > the main page succesful (for us and for the user) > > I think that there are two main reasons for people to hit the main > rsyslog.com page > > 1. they don't know what rsyslog can do, but they've been told to look at > it. > > 2. they have a problem and are looking for help. > > > For the first group, the octopus diagram is a great 'in your face' way of > showing that rsyslog does _lots_ of stuff and isn't the traditional syslog. > > for the second group, this will make it really easy for them to get to > module config info (which is a lot of what they are looking for) > > thoughts? > > David Lang > > > > On Tue, 4 Feb 2014, Rainer Gerhards wrote: > > Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 10:12:51 +0100 >> From: Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]> >> To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]> >> >> Subject: [rsyslog] rsyslog.com site changes >> >> Hi all, >> >> as we probably all know, the web site is not perfect, to phrase it >> politely. Among other problems, it seems to be quite hard to find >> information quickly enough. We are thinking about what could be changed. >> >> We would really appreciate feedback on >> >> - what is good? (and should stay) >> - what is bad? >> - what needs to be changed? >> - HOW should it be changed >> >> If you find nothing is good, please say so. That's why I am asking ;) >> Feedback including suggestions on how a new site should look like would of >> course be extremely useful. Often, it is not obvious how something that is >> considered bad could be done better. If we don't have a smart idea of how >> to improve things, we either do changes that do not really help -- or do >> no >> changes at all (this has happened often enough in the past). >> >> Feedback is deeply appreciated. Also, if you'd like to contribute to >> improving the site, just let us know to gain the proper access >> permissions. >> >> Rainer >> _______________________________________________ >> rsyslog mailing list >> http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >> http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ >> What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards >> NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad >> of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you >> DON'T LIKE THAT. >> >> _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad > of sites beyond our control. 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