Re: Main page: about us

[Anastasios Hatzis <ahatzis(at)gmx(dot)net>]

Harald Armin Massa wrote:
> Robert,
>
>     Yeah, cause a lot of people accidentally type in postgresql and
>     end up on our
>     page wondering what we are.  ;-D
>
>
> In fact they do. At least I do this every day: I find a word I do not 
> understand, highlight it, right klick and search in Google.
> Hopefully www.postgresql.org <http://www.postgresql.org> is on high 
> page rank for searches for  PostgreSQL.
>
> So there ARE a lot of people dropping to www.postgresql.org 
> <http://www.postgresql.org> to find out what it is.
> It is nearly agreed within the web usability communities, that a clear 
> information
> "what is this about" is the most important thing of the "homepage".
In the case that someone - after seeing an interesting word like 
postgresql - can spend the time to start the browser, browse to 
search-engine, browsing several results (hopefully at first 
www.postgresql.org) and then coming to the entry page, I'm rather sure, 
that then he will be still interested enough and will also have the 
three seconds to do another click on the 'About' link which is placed on 
a very common and highly visible place on the left corner below the 
logo. :-)

And in addition there is still the key sentence on PostgreSQL on the 
right side, very eye-catching, too: "The world's most advanced 
open-source database'.

> -
> on different matter:
> EuroPython 2006 is over. It was a GREAT conference. If you missed it, 
> now you can prepare budget for visiting EuroPython 2007. 
Harald, do you know if there are transcripts or presentation slides of 
the presentations hold on the EuroPython 2006 I couldn't take part of?

Anastasios

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