Re: new website: initial comments

[Graham Percival]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:53:14AM +0200, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote:
>
>> It's always tricky finding a balance between appealing to users
>> and warning them about the text.  I'm not going to claim that the
>> balance in the new website is perfect, but I think it's worth
>> trying.  Let's try it for a few months; if we still have new users
>> sending bug reports about having no menus or toolbars (also
>> assuming that lilypad in 10.5 is fixed :)  , then we'll revisit
>> the webpage design.
>>   
> Well, it is not a really good measurement. We should use Google  
> Analytics for example to find out user's behavior, to know when and how  
> they get scared or appealed.

I don't think that even The Almight Google (tm) can distinguish
between a person ceasing to browse lilypond.org because they got
scared vs. ceasing to browse because their cat just brought in a
mouse.  But I'm willing to be proven wrong; what does google
analytics tell you about our current webpage?

Cheers,
- Graham