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Originally Posted by Kal
A spash screen can never be the main www.planetarion.com page.
While I agree the portal needs significant work to become user friendly and attractive, a splash screen simply does not fulfill the potential of the space and makes advanced Search Engine Optimisation techniques impossible and directly limits our ability to use advertising efficiently. |
Fine search engine ranking may be important but when the portal looks like some half arsed PHP Nuke website that thousands of people have thrown together then it doesn't help. Especially when over and over again the people involved with running it decided the key is to select people to write regular 'columns' but as its official they are so watered down and bland that no-one really cares what they have to say and anyway after about 3 they get bored or run out of things to write.
This is supposed to be a portal for a Professional product that you are asking people to pay for and it shouldn't be resembling some amateur looking fan site. Do we see Eve's portal looking unprofessional and littered with user content,? no you don't, what about WoW? again no. Even take a look at Jolts website and again it looks professional and lacks all the ametuer 'modules' that your average persons "first portal installation" would have enabled.
The only parts of the portal that should be requiring regular 'post' should be the news page and a dev blog that all developers can post to and which someone does a couple of times a week to show some active development is being done
I mean come pretty much every PATeam member there's been over the years has gone through at least one attempt at producing a portal in their time (and normally multiple) and every time the same mistakes are made in that they try and make a fan site when they should be making a official gateway into the game that appealing and makes them want to check it out further