RE: [phoenix-epic-dev] EPIC Homepage Prototype

["Ian Skerrett" <ian.skerrett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,

 

My comment was in response to Todd’s request to make sure the most active and highest ranked plug-ins were not on the right side.   My use of the term ‘balance’ was more from a home page design perspective to indicate we will look at a way to give more prominence to the most active and highest ranked.  

 

Btw, my comments about trying to create more awareness for other plugins is in response to the themes and priorities we agreed to last fall, one being ‘Increase visibility of Member plug-ins.’  I think we can do this, while at the same time not diminish the attention for the top 20.

 

Ian

---

From: Mike Taylor [mailto:mike_taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 11:12 PM
To: ian.skerrett@xxxxxxxxxxx; The EPIC component of Phoenix
Cc: 'Todd Williams'
Subject: Re: [phoenix-epic-dev] EPIC Homepage Prototype

 

 

On May 4, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Ian Skerrett wrote:

However, we have also been trying to give exposure to more member plugins; the goal being to drive up the number of click thru’s for all member plugins.  The last time I did an analysis, a disproportional amount of activity is directed toward about 20 plugins.   I think it would be beneficial to the entire community to see this number increase.   We are hoping to accomplish this by given more prominence to the new and update and the featured plugin category.   However, I think we can look at creating more of a balance.

This comment concerns me. IMHO the top 20 plugins probably earned the attention they get. Doing things to artificially "balance" this might really backfire. I'm guessing that at least one of the "top 20" plugins belongs to Instantiations, so I admit my bias. If we felt that we were being "balanced" it would dramatically diminish our zeal for EPIC. A level playing field is one thing, trying to find ways to "balance" the success of some plugins so that they get more (or less) attention than they earn is unappealing. 

MikeT