Australians will probably recognise Doctor Karl S. Kruszelnicki, the rest of the wwworld probably won't, basically he is a TV and Radio Scientist dude who works for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and as his email signature reads........ (Full version at bottom of this page ;0)--~ http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2 currently has over 1,000,000 words in it!
G= That is the correct and only way to measure activity, mostly because you can code extra activity in, for example, the cyber structure of the 1996-1997 web zone www.gasgroup.com/bbt (which, by the way, was constructed BEFORE frames layout was "invented.") is designed so that all pages in it are accessible from the index/home page as well as from the header and footer of each individual page, this layout tends to "loop" visitors thru the index/home page and this style is where the big numbers come from and is pretty much standard web layout. The current design concept at PPP is totally different, it is a linear zone, rather than a loop zone, by linear I mean, that I assume ALL visitors to gg/ppp have never been there B4 (I also work on the theory that you only get one chance to make a first impression ;O) First Time visitors MUST click thru gg/ppp/entrylevel/????.htm to get to main body of the web zone (gg/ppp/centralhub/????.htm) If they don't make it to the /centralhub the first time they visit, then it is highly likely that the zone DOESN'T contain the content they are looking for or hasn't aroused their interest sufficiently. I no longer write to this audience, instead I prefer to concentrate my talents on the dudes who WANT the specific content I provide. Once a Newbie has decided to become "A member" they then enter thru www.gasgroup.com/peacepipe99 (another GjG innovation ;O)--~ How ever, activity is one thing and "membership another", by this I mean that when a member downloads a page they read it, discuss the content with their friends etc, with a newbie well, it's like a hotel lobby with a well known piece of Art in the foyer, heaps of dudes will walk in off the street to look at it, (if it's free and not out of their way,) but not many will want to book a room in the hotel or peruse / purchase a back catalogue of other works by the same artist. In fact to continue with the hotel analogy, launching a web site is exactly like building a hotel in the middle of a desert, first you build and decorate it, and THEN you build the roads to it. In short I believe that a well balanced web zone requires a Newbie zone, a NOW zone and an ALL zone and each zone requires a different dynamic and interpretation..... Dear Peace Pipe, G= Hmmn, opinion on the popularity of audience generated content / bulletin board / guest books as opposed to popularity of Artist generated content or opinion as to why self serve is the busiest section? Second part is easier to answer, the self serve section is pretty much the only section where dudes can interact with your content (& see their own name up in lights) not to mention the fact that the underlined text sublink to it is also featured near the top of the index page blurb, so it's not exactly buried. As to the first part, well, audience generated
content usually only Dear Peace Pipe, Karl S. Kruszelnicki, |