Re: [Haskell-cafe] New slogan for haskell.org

On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 09:44 -0500, David Menendez wrote:

On Nov 26, 2007 1:44 PM, Thomas Davie wrote:

But the point is that this section of the site is the bit that's meant to be an advertisement -- we're trying to encourage people to read more,

Are we? I thought Haskell.org was intended to describe what Haskell *is*. There are plenty of articles and blog posts and wiki pages out there that advocate Haskell. I don't see why the main web page needs to be polluted with marketing.

If someone hears/reads someone talk about Haskell they're probably not going to browse through all the blog posts to find out bits and pieces. They go to the first hit that comes up whan typing "Haskell" into Google, which is www.haskell.org. The very basics of web-usability include that users have to find what they're looking for very, very quickly or they're going somewhere else or simply lose interest. That is why the contents of the home page are very important. Let's not miss this opportunity. / Thomas