Karen Cravens wrote:

>The new templates needed fine-tuned; alt tags and so on were 
>added during the chat.

Some pages still don't have the new template, like the Banner Exchange
(and although this is another subject, there's a lot of broken banners
out there - presumably people on free web providers that don't allow
graphics to loaded to external pages)

>The menu needs some feedback, especially from people new to 
>the Phoenyx.  What needs to be on it that isn't, and are the things 
>that are on it clear enough?

Can't think of anything that ought to be there that isn't

>The Site Summary paragraph needs a rewrite.  Presently, it's "The 
>Phoenyx is an Internet service dedicated to building a roleplaying 
>community online. It offers free email discussion groups (with web 
>and newsgroup interfaces), IRC channels and MU* servers for 
>gamemasters wishing to run online roleplaying games." Informative, 
>but slightly inaccurate, and deadly dull.



>The Phoenyx News is a new feature, making the page more 
>dynamic. Of course, if we only have internal news, it's not that 
>compelling, but I really don't want to become a general news site 
>(there's plenty of that).  I'd rather have periodic articles and 
>columns to put in there.  A lot of you write occasional how-to's and 
>whatnot; I'd love to host them on the Phoenyx and formalize it into 
>a mini-zine (okay, micro-zine).  Nothing fancy or high-maintenance, 
>just occasional articles, mostly on internet roleplaying (though I'm 
>*still* going to do that food column Real Soon Now).

Sounds like it's a matter of 'volunteering' people to write things.
Could also try things like interviews with GMs or features on games
(by interviewing the players).

>The "Where to Start" section is the main content of the page, and 
>(as discussed in the chat) was a slapped-together placeholder 
>that's been holding its place for *way* too long.  We need a "Start 
>here" intro page (we have one, but it's presently trapped on a laptop 
>with a shorted power cable, so a rewrite is probably in order).  But 
>mostly we just need to figure out what needs to go in this section.

What's currently there is an expanded table of contents, plus the
banner exchange.

>The main page doesn't have a sidebar presently (well, it does have 
>the 9-11 link, but that's another placeholder).  I don't want to make 
>the page too busy, but we could put something there if needed.
>
>Thoughts?  Comments?  Does anybody ever read the main page?

The 'Phoenyx News' summaries mean little or nothing if you're not a
phoenyx regular. - could do with some framing words.   (Bit like I've
done on the front page of www.kalyr.com - no 'real' content, but a few
words on each new link).
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