Open bits-of-static opened 5 years ago
SinghJN
commented
5 years ago Is this the ‘about’ text? We need a longer text to explain to people what we’re all about. Generally: Sorry, I’m really having difficulties working with GitHub. I can see the issue but can’t work out how to locate the issue the text you’re referring to on the website.
lblissett
commented
5 years ago We dont have a working "about" text at the moment: http://drupalize-da.de/en/about is filled with wrong information. Thext was just used as a filler. This about page needs a complete rewrite.
What peter was refering is the text at the frontpage. You have a big headline, a subtitle and three smaller texts under the symbols.
So we need a shorter subtitle than the one proposed from Johannes (which we have not included at the dev site now, but peter posted it above).
And we need texts under the symbols which has a similar length. You can check this at the current dev webpage and you will see it looks strange, if the variation of lenght is too long.
Please take a look at this site: https://www.researchgate.net/ to get an idea of a good example (and also, to check that we are not too close with our texts to them).
bits-of-static
commented
5 years ago In a coupleof hous, you can look at the wording I propose:
DiscourseNet: International Association for Discourse Studies
We are an open network for anyone active in the field of discourse studies. We aim to create an open, multilingual, inclusive and non-hierarchical space.
Connect with your colleagues
Connect and collaborate with discourse researchers from around the world in all scientific disciplines.
Connect with your colleagues
We collect not yet published papers - find cutting-edge research and connect with the authors.
Make your work visible
Create groups to facilitate communication and create a personal profile to increase your visibility in the community.
lblissett
commented
5 years ago I just made a new update to our last version. You can see the new proposal of the wording on our test site online.
SinghJN
commented
5 years ago Great, thanks. I feel this works. To my taste, it sounds a bit corporate, as if we provide a service to the discourse research community. But perhaps, our Board members will have comments about this. You can leave it as it is for now. We might ask for changes at a later stage.
Generally, for the English version, please take out all instances of the word 'scientific'. In Anglophone countries this means 'natural sciences' (naturwissenschaftlich) and it is not an accurate translation of German 'wissenschaftlich', which refers to both Geisteswissenschaften and Naturwissenschaften. Can you replace 'scientific' with 'academic' please? Thanks
lblissett
commented
5 years ago Yes, thanks this is a very valuable remark. You should feel comfortable with the wording we used and it is probably more geared into corporate style than the old page.
Good, we gonna change this to academic.
jangermuller
commented
5 years ago I agree and perhaps let’s not sound too corporate!
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Great, thanks. I feel this works. To my taste, it sounds a bit corporate, as if we provide a service to the discourse research community. But perhaps, our Board members will have comments about this. You can leave it as it is for now. We might ask for changes at a later stage.
Generally, for the English version, please take out all instances of the word 'scientific'. In Anglophone countries this means 'natural sciences' (naturwissenschaftlich) and it is not an accurate translation of German 'wissenschaftlich', which refers to both Geisteswissenschaften and Naturwissenschaften. Can you replace 'scientific' with 'academic' please? Thanks
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jangermuller
commented
5 years ago What about the following presentation?
The Discourse Studies platform by DiscourseNet
We create an open, multilingual, inclusive and non-hierarchical space for anyone active in the field of Discourse Studies.
Connect
Collaborate with discourse researchers from around the world in all disciplines.
Publish
Disseminate events, find research, share work.
Join
Create a profile, join a group and become part of the community.
bits-of-static
commented
5 years ago I find it looks great. Satisfied?
jangermuller
commented
5 years ago Looks great, yes! A scroll-down invitation (so that people realise there is more below) is the only thing still missing!
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I find it looks great. Satisfied?
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The current wording for the frontpage proposed by Johannes needs review.
Subtitle:
The text needs to fit into the given space otherwise it will not work. Long text does not animate people into reading it and it does not integrate into the design.
From content, it should talk about what it is and not what it offers. What is on offer, is intended to be presented in the section below. Those three texts (unique selling points) must be of approximately same length. The title and the text should work well together. The third one currently repeats itself.
Connect with your colleagues
Read and discuss publications
Make your work visible