Denise (![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png)
denise) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
getting_started2010-05-09 11:48 am
denise) wrote in getting_started2010-05-09 11:48 am
Entry tags:
Site tour for new users
So, I figured this would be a good place to start brainstorming :)
I'm in the process of putting together a site tour for new users: a simple overview of what DW is, how it works, what you can do, how you can find interesting things to read, etc.
I have a very vague idea of what it should include, but I haven't yet decided anything about how it should be structured. I thought that before I come up with anything, though, I'd toss it out to y'all and see what you thought, so as to avoid prejudicing the conversation and brainstorming with my ideas.
So:
* Putting yourself into a new user's shoes -- both someone coming from LJ and someone coming to DW from other backgrounds -- what would you expect to see in a "getting started" type site tour?
* How would you expect it to be structured?
* What would be the most effective things to include that would make you say "oh, wow!"
* For those of you who are relatively new, what were the first pieces of information you sought out? What were the most helpful things to know? What were the things that drew you to DW in the first place?
I'm in the process of putting together a site tour for new users: a simple overview of what DW is, how it works, what you can do, how you can find interesting things to read, etc.
I have a very vague idea of what it should include, but I haven't yet decided anything about how it should be structured. I thought that before I come up with anything, though, I'd toss it out to y'all and see what you thought, so as to avoid prejudicing the conversation and brainstorming with my ideas.
So:
* Putting yourself into a new user's shoes -- both someone coming from LJ and someone coming to DW from other backgrounds -- what would you expect to see in a "getting started" type site tour?
* How would you expect it to be structured?
* What would be the most effective things to include that would make you say "oh, wow!"
* For those of you who are relatively new, what were the first pieces of information you sought out? What were the most helpful things to know? What were the things that drew you to DW in the first place?
no subject
1) Tell people stuff (so this is journal entries; and access and getting-started and crossposting and tags and joining communities would all be a subset of that)
2) Find things to read, so subscribing and finding communities and the reading page and the latest things feed
3) Talk to people, so all about comments, comment tracking/notifications, and again about communities and how to join them/find them
4) Make their journal look the way they want
I would leave out info on site schemes, on viewing things in one's own style, the navigation bar, anything that isn't directly related to the four things above.
no subject