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Exceptional has several brands:
Exceptional.io
Airbrake.io
RedisToGo
others?

We need to meet with Ben Arent, Exceptional's Product Guru, to determine which brands should be represented and how they should look within dev.rackspace.com.

The current style.css is ~255KBs and uncompressed. Minify-ing this or even CDNing this via Cloud Files / bootstrapcdn.com

~Jason

Bring over all blog posts from the DevOps Blog and put them in http://domain.com/blog. Images need to be corrected.

Let's make sure that we have the correct projects in the community projects page.

Feedback: focus on the speed at which users can get up and running on RAX cloud.

With a dedicated SDK page; we can put in tabbed content on the landing page to show a quick/short example to hook users; each language should be a tabbed piece of content, and the code example an embedded gist

We lost all the code samples on the front page. I liked those ...
Can we find something interesting to put back up?

We've already got a comprehensive site at http://redistogo.com/documentation?language=en

This is general redis stuff, so would be good to add to the site.

Looks like GA was on the homepage but not the blog pages. Core Metrics (Marketing Analytics) also need to be added to the entire site.

After discussing traffic with Kord, how hard is it to add "visits" to the page so that people can see how many others are visiting? Thoughts?

Is this something that we can add by Friday, or do we add it at a later date?

Thanks,

For docs.rackspace.com we just point over to the rackspace.com 404 page. So you go to docs.rackspace.com/loadbalancer and it tries to search for loadbalancer on rackspace.com.

Feedback from Lew is that this was not a clear choice, we should look into making more of a distinction for this selection tab.

Let's pin the navigation bar at the top of the page to assist with nav.

We need to start tracking basic google analytics type of information on the site:
Unique visitors
Time on site
What gets clicked
When we link off to another site track that we sent them that traffic (Private Cloud downloads or public activations)

A publicly-consumable version of the SDK API coverage matrix would be useful to developers to see on the site (cf. https://one.rackspace.com/display/DRG/SDK+API+Coverage+Matrix). If we have individual SDK pages, then a variant showing only that SDK (but still all product features) could be used.

I see a "list of events we are going to" on other dev portals - do you guys feel it is something we should add?

I would like to be able to perform A/B tests on changes to the site to determine our impact over time to the user experience.

Eric brought up the idea of using feedmagnet to help collect data from social media feeds. This could allow us to pull in online conversations about various projects.

Placing a link to the repo for the site itself will serve a few purposes, including streamlining bug reports and feature requests. It also indicates we are all about Open Source.

Feedback: these tabs were not obvious, we could potentially add logos rather than tabs.

Feedback from Lew, use more OpenStack language, Example: "Build Great Apps on an OpenStack Cloud".

From a quick preview, it looks like this is a smattering of our products. Until I did a hover I found out it was actually linking to docs. Should we update that to 'Rackspace Public Cloud Service Docs' or 'Rackspace Cloud Docs'

Not sure if this is connected to the other DevOps bug but here is what you get at least in Chrome:

Removing the blog from launch; currently we can't parse the atom feed due to the access-control-allow-origin (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy) this makes it pretty much a non-starter to parse it using javascript for now.

Need to revisit once we get the names/cnames/etc in place - or put in an alternative feed url, or move the php files from php templates into jekyll/octopress and combine the code base.

drop down menu turns red when you select an SDK, then go back to the menu to select another SDK.

It's on here:
http://docs.rackspace.com/

It should be on here:
http://developer.rackspace.com/

Show us some love!

I would like to think how we can get dedicated servers represented here. Talk to Ev (Mailgun founder), he is a dev AND a big believer in dedicated gear. Right now we present the option as Private or Public but there is a 3rd component we leave off - Baremetal.

Can we add Airbrake to the dev site. We can help exceptions in app, on backend processes and even help capture chef errors. Let me know how I can help and what content we need for it.

Conrad would like to see the Rackspace footer removed from the Dev site.

Need to focus on one site and redirect other sites to it. Examples:

devops.rackspace.com -> developer.rackspace.com/blog
dev.rackspace.com -> developer.rackspace.com

Managed Cloud includes a $100 account fee and may not be the best fit for the Developer market. If you feel Core Cloud is a better fit, is there a way we can link to the signup page WITHOUT Managed Cloud radio button selected?

http://gtmetrix.com/reports/166.78.14.200/L5RTCIv3

Currently loads in > 2.5 seconds; our target is < 1 second. There are 70 HTTP requests and 1.4MB of content for the page. Hopefully we can improve this, but I wanted to make sure that there's an issue to track performance.

From Niki Acosta:
This one is questionable: Our open source and fully supported developer tools help you get started using any OpenStack cloud in minutes.
This is a clear violation: Rackspace can help you install OpenStack® on your own servers in minutes.
Suggestion: Deploy Rackspace Private Cloud powered by OpenStack free in minutes!

ASK:
Have Sabina in legal review all the places where we use OpenStack.

The developer search function (from the current http://developer.rackspace.com) is not on the current iteration of the developer site.

It seems we have lost some of our support of the "baby" devs (devs not already immersed in cloud). Part of the reason people choose Rackspace is because of the perception that we are easier to use than AWS. How do we get the we are easy AND friendly message across:

quickstart guides
walkthroughs
videos
etc

The buttons all act slightly differently on hover and click (except the green and blue ones). They also have different gradients and shadows. Just make them match the ones on Rackspace.

This may help with styling:

Theming Octopress

Do we still want this? Too Web 2.0-y? Either way, it's broke right now.

The RSS feed is an Atom feed, available at http://whatever.domain.com/atom.xml

Videos are totally broken in firefox.

Margins on the headers for the sections would look better, especially when you click on the links at the top to navigate down.

h1.section-title {
margin-top: 20px;
}

To view 'issue', click on http://developer.rackspace.com/#home-services and notice the lack of white space from the top of page to the header text.

the getting started tab gives an error unless you access it from the blog.

Hey, not sure how I become a member of Rackerlabs. Could one of you guys set me up?

Thanks,

Jeff

Should we add some text over the public cloud button, similar to the private cloud one? Maybe something like "Use our cloud anywhere - in minutes, without lock-in"