stéphane ducasse wrote:
Hi guys
I'm wondering why we are still pointing to this crappy web site and not the new one? http://www.squeak.org:7777/
Stef
The old site is not "crappy" and the new site is still inferior compared to the old one. If anything is "crappy" it is the home page of the new site.
To repeat it to your deaf ears: This home page is a doorway page. It has almost no text but mainly links to other sites. From a search engine perspective such a change from the old to the new page indicates that someone wants to prop up the page ranking of the linked sites.....
But the opposite will happen, Google's internal page ranking of such a page will drop severely and the linked sites will not benefit, especially if they link back.
The visitors perspective looks similar, a visitor of squeak.org wants to be informed about Squeak and not be sent away.
Regarding the style I have to say that I like the old site much more. It has an idiosyncratic charm, the new site looks like thousands of other sites. Even the font and font size of old "crappy" squeak.org is more inviting for a further read.
Martin