[Haskell-cafe] Leaner Haskell.org frontpage

[Don Stewart]

bulat.ziganshin:
> Hello Don,
> 
> Thursday, July 9, 2009, 8:33:17 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, the current layout is actually based on previous analysis of Popular
> > Pages a few years ago, so that we have O(1) access to key resources.
> 
> yes, and it means that page is optimized for regular Haskell users
> 
> what is proposed, though, is to optimize it for newcomers so they will
> find their way to Haskell
> 
> so first we need to decide what category of users homepage should be
> optimized for. who can set up poll?


Perhaps a newbie page can be designed separately first, and hosted
concurrently.  Then we can offer both:

  Newbies:
    http://haskell.org

  Everything regular users need at fingertips
    http://dashboard.haskell.org/

A newbie porthole is a great idea.

-- Don