Login from website or forums?

When you log into sgdotnet, do you usually log in from the website or from the forum?

From what I notice (don't whether it is true or not), most people tend to log in from the forum. And forget about the website.

Is there anything that we can do to make the website more interesting to make users (esp new users) notice the website?

We will need to try and make the site more dynamic. Cos all the activities are now centered at the forum... It doesn't make sense to anyone to make our homepage their homepage...

Precisely.. I hope more users will post their ideas to tell us what they like to have or see in the webpage.

We are making plans to change the structure of the website in one to two months time. Need to get as many ideas as possible, to make the website more attractive and more informative..

Plans for the website are as follows.

Articles
Blogging (for my unusual rantings)
Events + slides and demos
Extraction of interesting snippets from the forum to the website, i'll call it Forums Snippets


Anymore suggestions?

triplez wrote:

Articles Blogging

If you look at other community sites, these basically are the things people come back for. There's value in reading and learning as long as there're high-calibre folks to dish them out well-cooked.

And unfortunately this is precisely where i fail miserably. I have recognised very early on that i simply cannot teach or instruct. Be it verbal or written. It is exceedingly difficult for me to identify the knowledge level of the "student" and instruct with syllabi. I do not know how to control the "steps of the baby" and gradually bring him/her to speed.

I can only discuss. Meaning i need peers roughly at the same level so we can talk without that type of disruption. I'm the scientist in the lab, not the lecturer in the theatre.