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dougal
Joined: 15 Jan 2005
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 Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 4:01 pm Post subject: |
 
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| I'm going to be a heretic and say that I think that "popular" articles would be a good thing to wave at newcomers..."Editor's choice" ought to be a showcase of whats best... |
But that would make them both the same thing  |
I'd been thinking that "popular" was auto-generated on a page 'hits' count, (over a short enough interval that a popular winter article wasn't still showing strongly in midsummer, despite not having been accessed at all for months) and Ed's choice was a selection of what the site was most proud of that was currently relevant.
**Starting from the assumption that the front page should be designed to interest the arriving *stranger* and tempt them further in**
the more I think about it, one should offer the *stranger* a smorgasbord of the articles that best represent what the site is about, (obviously seasonally relevant, and varied occasionally - hey could it handle 4 random ones from an occasionally changed list of say 20?)
Newcomers shouldn't be interested in particular articles for their *novelty* -- its **ALL** new to them. Regulars would be interested in *new* articles, not newcomers...
Be clear about the target market, then choose things, find ways, to appeal to that market... |
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