For redesigning functionality , some input must be given to the path of web pages followed by users. This would rely on the current analytics software installed on the main website (?) .
I use a software called called clicky from www.getclicky.com and use the user input to tweak pages,posts including time of pause at web pages. I can also in addition to the coding of the HTML, CSS help with the online analytics for the website- It is actually best if someone who knows the users is given the row level records ( which is done in clicky but not in Google Analytics) Some websites offer a choice at the entrance - light HTML version and heavy Flash version. This can be done as well just for the main pages (2-3) ,and then link to the same cran page . Given that next website upgrade (after this one!) would take some years- There could be section for leading R blogs/practitioners, as well as some social networking links (Twitter) and a Journal /Books Recommended page .There could also be spaces for Video Tutorial ( Embed only in HTML ) from other sides. This group can also meet /talk via voice talk ( using skype or Gtalk) if possible on getting this project ahead- chaired by Moderator and Co-ordinator of the project. Best Regards, Ajay www.decisionstats.com Doug Larson - "Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: > [coming late to an interesting thread ...] > >>>>>> "Ao" == Ajay ohri <ohri2...@gmail.com> >>>>>> on Mon, 2 Feb 2009 18:14:03 +0530 writes: > > Ao> Plain HTML coding is simple enough for this list ( I think)...but > aesthetic > Ao> design....hmm > > I tend to agree. A few months ago, we had volunteers to improve > the ESS homepage (http://ess.r-project.org/), and I had asked > for a similar .. but different! .. restriction : > Yes: the result should be maintainable by SVN > BUT: it can depend on server-side functionality > > Consequently, the two volunteers, Domenico Vistocco and Wilmar > Igl, confined the code to using PHP (+ HTML + CSS), and while > the result is not as if it had be done by (highly paid!) > professional designers, it is a big step forward, and we've been very > grateful for Domenico's and Wilmar's initiative and its result. > > Ao> But a contest would the best way to get the best design and can be > Ao> publicly asked from the graphics community ( not just the R > Ao> community)..remember Tom Sawyer and the fence :) > > I would find it fun to have a contest on this... > with the restriction of "ASCII-files (+ a few pics) maintainable by SVN" > but *not* restricting it to "no-server-side modules required". > > Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich > > Ao> - I volunteer in both cases :) > > Ao> Winner of Design Contest should get > > Ao> some bragging rights in a small hyperlink (with nofollow tag -so no > seo) > Ao> on main page ,French Wine in the user conference location , > Ao> etc etc... > > > Ao> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:26 PM, > <friedrich.lei...@stat.uni-muenchen.de>wrote: > > >> >>>>> On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:44:21 +0100, > >> >>>>> Thomas Petzoldt (TP) wrote: > >> > >> > Hi, > >> > you are probably right, though I must say that I like *spartanic and > >> > efficient* homepages and I don't think that the example given by the > >> > first mail is a good prototype for the R homepage. But, yes, > occasional > >> > face lifting may be adequate. Anti-aliasing is of course simple, but > >> > that's probably not the point. (And I know that there are graphics > >> > experts with a masters in psychology between us.) > >> > >> > So, why not a new Homepage Graphics Competition 2009? There is still > >> > some time until useR!2009 in Rennes: > >> > >> > http://www2.agrocampus-ouest.fr/math/useR-2009/ > >> > >> Perhaps we should extend that to a competition for the complete design > >> of the homepage? > >> > >> We often get emails like the first in this thread that R could do with > >> an update on homepage design (I fully agree) ... but actually nobody > >> volunteers to do it. Hence, we still have what I did when the > >> worldwide number of R users was probably less than 1000. > >> > >> For technical reasons there are some conditions: the homepage is > >> maintained via SVN like the R sources, so all should be plain HTML, no > >> content management system etc. > >> > >> Ad frames: the main reason that I used them in the first place is to > >> have the menus etc in only one file, no need for updating several > >> files when a link changes. Today I would probably use iframes, but any > >> other soultion is fine, too. > >> > >> Another plus would be if we could use the same design for CRAN, and > >> that means no server-trickery like server-side includes etc (because > >> we do not control the server setup of the mirrors). > >> > >> Best, > >> Fritz > >> > >> -- > >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Prof. Dr. Friedrich Leisch > >> > >> Institut für Statistik Tel: (+49 89) 2180 3165 > >> Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Fax: (+49 89) 2180 5308 > >> Ludwigstraße 33 > >> D-80539 München http://www.statistik.lmu.de/~leisch > >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Journal Computational Statistics --- http://www.springer.com/180 > >> Münchner R Kurse --- http://www.statistik.lmu.de/R > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >> PLEASE do read the posting guide > >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >> > > Ao> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > Ao> ______________________________________________ > Ao> R-help@r-project.org mailing list > Ao> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > Ao> PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > Ao> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
