[R] Problems in Recommending R
Ajay ohri
ohri2007 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 14:52:04 CET 2009
For redesigning functionality , some input must be given to the path
of web pages followed by users. This would rely on the current
analytics software installed on the main website (?) .
I use a software called called clicky from www.getclicky.com and use
the user input to tweak pages,posts including time of pause at web
pages.
I can also in addition to the coding of the HTML, CSS help with the
online analytics for the website- It is actually best if someone who
knows the users is given the row level records ( which is done in
clicky but not in Google Analytics)
Some websites offer a choice at the entrance - light HTML version and
heavy Flash version.
This can be done as well just for the main pages (2-3) ,and then link
to the same cran page .
Given that next website upgrade (after this one!) would take some
years- There could be section for leading R blogs/practitioners, as
well as some social networking links (Twitter) and a Journal /Books
Recommended page .There could also be spaces for Video Tutorial (
Embed only in HTML ) from other sides.
This group can also meet /talk via voice talk ( using skype or Gtalk)
if possible on getting this project ahead- chaired by Moderator and
Co-ordinator of the project.
Best Regards,
Ajay
www.decisionstats.com
Doug Larson - "Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city,
it might be better to change the locks."
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Martin Maechler
<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> [coming late to an interesting thread ...]
>
>>>>>> "Ao" == Ajay ohri <ohri2007 at gmail.com>
>>>>>> on Mon, 2 Feb 2009 18:14:03 +0530 writes:
>
> Ao> Plain HTML coding is simple enough for this list ( I think)...but aesthetic
> Ao> design....hmm
>
> I tend to agree. A few months ago, we had volunteers to improve
> the ESS homepage (http://ess.r-project.org/), and I had asked
> for a similar .. but different! .. restriction :
> Yes: the result should be maintainable by SVN
> BUT: it can depend on server-side functionality
>
> Consequently, the two volunteers, Domenico Vistocco and Wilmar
> Igl, confined the code to using PHP (+ HTML + CSS), and while
> the result is not as if it had be done by (highly paid!)
> professional designers, it is a big step forward, and we've been very
> grateful for Domenico's and Wilmar's initiative and its result.
>
> Ao> But a contest would the best way to get the best design and can be
> Ao> publicly asked from the graphics community ( not just the R
> Ao> community)..remember Tom Sawyer and the fence :)
>
> I would find it fun to have a contest on this...
> with the restriction of "ASCII-files (+ a few pics) maintainable by SVN"
> but *not* restricting it to "no-server-side modules required".
>
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
>
> Ao> - I volunteer in both cases :)
>
> Ao> Winner of Design Contest should get
>
> Ao> some bragging rights in a small hyperlink (with nofollow tag -so no seo)
> Ao> on main page ,French Wine in the user conference location ,
> Ao> etc etc...
>
>
> Ao> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:26 PM, <friedrich.leisch at stat.uni-muenchen.de>wrote:
>
> >> >>>>> On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:44:21 +0100,
> >> >>>>> Thomas Petzoldt (TP) wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> > you are probably right, though I must say that I like *spartanic and
> >> > efficient* homepages and I don't think that the example given by the
> >> > first mail is a good prototype for the R homepage. But, yes, occasional
> >> > face lifting may be adequate. Anti-aliasing is of course simple, but
> >> > that's probably not the point. (And I know that there are graphics
> >> > experts with a masters in psychology between us.)
> >>
> >> > So, why not a new Homepage Graphics Competition 2009? There is still
> >> > some time until useR!2009 in Rennes:
> >>
> >> > http://www2.agrocampus-ouest.fr/math/useR-2009/
> >>
> >> Perhaps we should extend that to a competition for the complete design
> >> of the homepage?
> >>
> >> We often get emails like the first in this thread that R could do with
> >> an update on homepage design (I fully agree) ... but actually nobody
> >> volunteers to do it. Hence, we still have what I did when the
> >> worldwide number of R users was probably less than 1000.
> >>
> >> For technical reasons there are some conditions: the homepage is
> >> maintained via SVN like the R sources, so all should be plain HTML, no
> >> content management system etc.
> >>
> >> Ad frames: the main reason that I used them in the first place is to
> >> have the menus etc in only one file, no need for updating several
> >> files when a link changes. Today I would probably use iframes, but any
> >> other soultion is fine, too.
> >>
> >> Another plus would be if we could use the same design for CRAN, and
> >> that means no server-trickery like server-side includes etc (because
> >> we do not control the server setup of the mirrors).
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Fritz
> >>
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