<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Eric,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks for the explanation. The number
could be interpreted another way. That is that we need to improve the website
for people outside California so those numbers go up. The layout should
not only reflect the desires of the people visiting but he mission of the
earthquake program. I realize there is a balance here and I'm not going
to stress if California gets a box around it.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Paul</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Eric M Martinez <emartinez@usgs.gov></font>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Paul S Earle <pearle@usgs.gov></font>
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<td valign=top><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Cc:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">EHP Web <ehpweb@geohazards.usgs.gov></font>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">12/16/2009 11:46 AM</font>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:</font>
<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Re: [EHPweb] Ideas for linking to California/Nevada
from homepage</font></table>
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<br><font size=3>Yes people <i>can</i> click through to California, however
people who live in- or are interested in California information compose
the largest majority of traffic to our web site and may be under-represented
on the home page. See the attached image for some numbers. You
can see that California generates nearly 6x more traffic than its nearest
competitors and the numbers drop off drastically after that. Also
note visitors from California view more pages per visit, and stay longer
per visit.</font>
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<br><font size=3>For even more startling numbers; we get more visits from
California in a given month than all of Europe, Asia, Oceania, and Africa
combined (~765,000). If we are trying to meet the wants and needs
of our visitors it would seem more pressing to ask:</font>
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<br><font size=3>"Why do we have a map of the world on the home page?"</font>
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<br><font size=3>This question isn't posed to start further discussion
about moving the world map as I think the world map is not going anywhere,
but rather to give some perspective on who our users are and to suggest
we think about trying to meet their needs rather than our own.</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="Helvetica">Thanks,</font>
<br><font size=1 face="Helvetica">~Eric.</font>
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</font><img src=cid:_2_2AEC94E82AEC929000693D6C8725769B width=631 height=195>
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<br><font size=3>On Dec 16, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Paul S Earle wrote:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks Jeremy,</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
I don's see why this needs to be done can't people just click on the US
map to get to California?</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
-pse</font><font size=3> <br>
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<td width=87%><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Jeremy M Fee <</font><a href=mailto:jmfee@usgs.gov><font size=1 color=blue face="sans-serif"><u>jmfee@usgs.gov</u></font></a><font size=1 face="sans-serif">></font><font size=3>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">To:</font><font size=3>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">EHP Web <</font><a href=mailto:ehpweb@geohazards.usgs.gov><font size=1 color=blue face="sans-serif"><u>ehpweb@geohazards.usgs.gov</u></font></a><font size=1 face="sans-serif">></font><font size=3>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Date:</font><font size=3>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">12/15/2009 06:38 PM</font><font size=3>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Subject:</font><font size=3>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">[EHPweb] Ideas for linking to California/Nevada
from homepage</font><font size=3> </font>
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<td><font size=1 color=#5f5f5f face="sans-serif">Sent by:</font><font size=3>
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<td><a href="mailto:ehpweb-bounces@geohazards.usgs.gov"><font size=1 color=blue face="sans-serif"><u>ehpweb-bounces@geohazards.usgs.gov</u></font></a></table>
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</font><tt><font size=2><br>
During the weekly web team meeting we discussed ideas for highlighting
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California on the earthquake.usgs.gov home and earthquakes pages, for <br>
both short and long term. If anyone has any suggestions, please send
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them to this list or directly to </font></tt><a href=mailto:lisa@usgs.gov><tt><font size=2 color=blue><u>lisa@usgs.gov</u></font></tt></a><tt><font size=2>
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One idea, for the short term, is to add an image map to the small us <br>
map that would link either to<br>
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</font></tt><a href=http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latestfault.htm><tt><font size=2 color=blue><u>http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latestfault.htm</u></font></tt></a><tt><font size=2>
or<br>
</font></tt><a href=http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/special/California_Nevada.php><tt><font size=2 color=blue><u>http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/special/California_Nevada.php</u></font></tt></a><tt><font size=2><br>
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Here is a sample of what it might look like, with the white border <br>
corresponding to the link hotspot to show users there is something <br>
they can click.<br>
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[attachment "us_index.gif" deleted by Paul S Earle/GD/USGS/DOI]
[attachment "us_index-1.gif" deleted by Paul S Earle/GD/USGS/DOI]
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Any feedback is appreciated,<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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