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Footnote Home Pages

A history of different home page designs on Footnote.com

Created 01 Feb 2007

First one

10 Jan 2007

Where: Lindon, UT

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This was the design we launched with in Jan 2007. The idea was to simply introduce Footnote as place to experience historical documents in a different way. The emphasis was more on the things you could so with documents rather than the documents themselves.

Updated 07 Jun 2007 (Created 01 Feb 2007)

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A focus on content

31 Jan 2007

Where: Lindon, UT

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This home page was a response to the constant challenge of explaining the sorts of discoveries that can be made in Footnote titles.

 Most of our titles are filled primarily with handwritten text, which is not readable, and therefore, cannot be automatically searched by computers. The annotation tools were designed to help make documents more easily findable by letting Members tag or label people, places, dates and other text they've found.

 In short, with millions of handwritten documents, no one know for sure exactly what interesting stuff is contained within.

Updated 07 Jun 2007 (Created 01 Feb 2007)

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The Headline Approach

26 Mar 2007

Where: Lindon, UT

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This design was simpler than the last and used a large headline and slicker graphic content promos, which definitely improved site visits. 

Updated 07 Jun 2007 (Created 28 Mar 2007)

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from: Lindon, Utah, USA
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