[csw-maintainers] Positioning our website

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Maciej,

Am 13.11.2010 um 16:01 schrieb Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski:
> The first one is our domain registration.  Here's a snippet from  
> whois:
>
> Domain ID:D153552903-LROR
> Domain Name:OPENCSW.ORG
> Created On:08-Aug-2008 08:29:30 UTC
> Last Updated On:14-Sep-2010 20:19:19 UTC
> Expiration Date:08-Aug-2011 08:29:30 UTC
>
> I'm not sure what the "Last updated" field means here, whether it was
> the renewal date or an unrelated metadata update.  In either case, I
> believe that extending our registration to 2 or 3 years into the
> future would give us a huge boost.  Google considers domains that are
> registered for a short duration less trustworthy and demotes them in
> search results.  Extending the registration can be a really quick fix
> for our positioning.  Dago, can you take care of that?

Sure, request to my registrar sent.

> The other suggestion requires more people to work together.  There are
> essentially two things we can try doing:
>
> - work on moving opencsw.org up until it gets into the first 10

I proposed a change to the front page, but somehow William is
busy right now so it has not been done yet:

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:

> Von: Dagobert Michelsen <dam at baltic-online.de>
> Datum: 25. August 2010 14:47:42 MESZ
> An: List for OpenCSW maintainers <maintainers at lists.opencsw.org>
> Kopie: William Bonnet <wbonnet at opencsw.org>
> Betreff: Reorganiation of webpage
>
> Hi,
>
> I gave the website some more thought. Personally I find the "Latest  
> News" section
> not really useful as I have to click on it. The news should be  
> relocated/merged
> with "Latest Announcements".
>
> The "Download" box occupies a lot of valuable space not used often.  
> I recommend
> removing the box and renaming "Get it" to the more catchy "Download".
>
> Further I would think "Feeds" as second item in the top-bar should  
> be moved to the
> right as it will be used only sporadically.
>
> One more thing: On http://www.opencsw.org/support/ the link in
> "If you want to immediately use our software, you can go through the  
> quickstart
> documentation page" to quickstart is broken.
>
> Feedback welcome!
>
>
> Best regards
>
>  -- Dago


Maybe someone has the permissions to make the necessary change?


Best regards

   -- Dago