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Once again, I’d like to give a bit “hi five” to all of the team, for the nice new design! Hope you’ll soon reach the critical mass of users, where EDO can start to “rock’n'roll”! Helping responsible travelers, based on the work of a fully remote team, is the best thing to start the 21th century with 
About 36 hours ago our new site design went live on Earth.org with tons of usability improvements. Besides positive feedback from the team and friends, we’re also seeing the results already showing up in our Google Analytics overview. Just to give you an idea of the big step we took forward I’ll share some metrics with you:
- Pageviews are up by 93%
- Time on site is up by 43%
- Pages per visit are up 48%
- Bounce rate is down by 11%
These are some really impressive numbers which give us a fantastic view on the effects of the improvements. We have clearly chosen a right path and these numbers are great motivation to keep improving!
Thanks again to everyone who worked so hard to get this done!
Great stats!!
thanks for following up on this Rob. have always ‘meant’ to do it, didn’t get around to yet. i’ll make it a point to get into Analytics periodically as well. but pls let me know if you need help deciphering any numbers..
Congratulations, to ALL of you! I’ve just checked the new design, and it is very impressive! I wish you can get a lot closer to your dream with this much better structured UI!
@tech: few more things for redesign after more discussions:
1, Location left nav: come to FINAL agreement with Mathias and Otto. Pls help REMOVE inactive grey links on the left nav for all locations.
2, Homepage: replace blocks in the left nav with content (mentioned in separapte thread already)
3, Location page: Right column, Add to guide block, remove the 3 links and Other topics button. Only have the following remaining:
There’s still plenty of XXX to be filled out. <– in button on second line.
Pt 1.and 2. should be done with higher priority before launch, Pt 3. is of lower prio. pls let me know if there are questions.
thanks
thanks for coordinating alfreda glad to see you back in full swing!!!!
pt1, pt2 – done.
pt3 – 3 links, Other topics button and “Contribute?” from text – removed. @alfreda you mean that this text should be in button? link of this button should go to edit page? And I think it would be too much text in button. May be create just text link?
@dmitry: meant for only “Contribute?” word in button. just to be consistent as it seems like all other contribution call to actions are in buttons. would you need button from @Tristan?
button “Contribute?” added. @alfreda when user click this button, what action should be?
Just saw it guys. Love it! Just want to say big kudos to the tech team for realizing the design changes. Still details here and there to be worked out, but it’s looking great! thanks!
@teresa quick question are you already on updating the static pages in the redesign? let me know.
you mean Internal Pages? I am working on new texts for several pages (CC for example); the current version (About us, ..) needs some updates as well (text wise); but I can only do that step by sep.
what else do you need from me?
mitch mccann is discussing. 
kalmanp, 
Alfreda, and 
Imogen are discussing. 
dmitriy, 
valentin are discussing. 
mitch mccann 3:34 pm on December 7, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi five,
and High five!
The new site has attracted my attention, and kudos. I was not familiar with the previous edition.
Where do the advertisements come from? Are they as ethically selected to be compatible or at least benighn to the goals of Earth.org. Perhaps, the ads are counter productive?
Case in point -
Type in destination Grand Canyon.
Which leads to Grand Canyon Village, which is in the park, and has a least one high priced historic hotel in addition to many camp sites, some with coin operated shower rooms.
The motel ads shown with our content, however, are for motels in the “gateway community of Tusayan, which repeatedly rejects incorporation to provide public facilities. Our website listing does little to point out options for ethically oriented travelers, IMHO.
I just finished editing the listing fro Flagstaff, and am only slightly less dissatisfied. Which tour buses run on bio-deisel? Flag city buses are mostly ecologically fueled.
Traveler who approach from Cameron would have a different impact on the local economy, which is one of the things we are concerned with, is it not?
Perhaps we could influence the content of the ads, “We don’t excessively change th sheets on multi day visits.” or something.
The ethical high ground is the big long term selling point, (after survival of course!)
cactusmitch:)