Archive for January, 2009
Website usability testing at EclipseCon
Lynn and I will be conducting a Website usability test at EclipseCon this year. Because I (and most of the people I work with) know our website quite well, the goal is to find out how folks use our website so we can make improvements to the structure and content. So, for instance, if you [...]
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Eclipse.org gets a new face (again)
If you haven’t visited www.eclipse.org recently, now would be a great time to do so. After gathering some feedback on our recent simplistic design, I think we’ve come up with a great new homepage that balances simplicity for newcomers and information for our regular audience.
Nathan, our web designer extraordinaire, has also designed a new skin [...]
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Eclipse.org News on iGoogle
Some of you probably use iGoogle, Google’s personal portal site. For those who don’t, it’s essentially a personalized portal site with information from many sources and sites all displayed in a single page.
It turns out that it’s quite trivial to add RSS feeds as Google gadgets on your page. So what if you wanted [...]
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Karl and I will be at EclipseCON
Karl and I will both be at EclipseCON this year, representing the Eclipse Webmasters. Karl will be there for most of the systems support (download mirror, registration system, badges, etc) and I’ll be there for Phoenix (Eclipse website), infrastructure and Babel talks and BoFs.
EclipseCON is always a fun time, and I always attend as many [...]
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to all, from the Eclipse Webmaster team. 2008 was a great year, with growth in the community (and our bandwidth), the release of Ganymede, great EclipseCon and Summit Europe conferences, new projects, new members, and new committers. Here’s to 2008 and for a great 2009 to come!
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