gittip/www.gittip.com — pull request #1457 by whit537 (2013-09-14 19:20:35+00:00)
Title: Better landing page request

I am running a project, which has a website with relatively big enough volume of visitors. (thousands per day). I would like to let them know about the possibility to donate money to the project by using gittip.

My intention was to explain briefly what gittip is and provide a link to my gittip landing page. However, my gittip landing page looks like this:
https://www.gittip.com/Tomas-M/
Please review the landing page when you are not signed in to gittip - as like 100% of my users will see it, since they are NOT signed in to gittip. What is the problem? The landing page is very confusing for a person who never saw it. It provides NO donate button (or similar). It provides no explanation for NEW users (who never saw gittip) what to do next. Probably the next step is to register / sign in, but users will not understand that.

I believe this is very important issue. New user must easily understand what to do next.

Suggestion: at least, if nothing else, please put there BIG wording like
Tomas-M RECEIVES
$0.00
per week, and gives $0.00

(the numbers are currently not there if I am not receiving anything yet. Providing the numbers will show the user that this is the place where money matters). And put there a wording which explains to the non-registered user that in order to donate, he should sign-in or register. I am also missing some wording which explains briefly what gittip is to the new visitor. This all will increase chances that a visitor sent to my landing page will easily understand what to do next in order to contribute.

Better will be of course to offer donations for non-registered users as well (to actually ask them to register/signin later, during the donation process, after they selected the amount to donate), but this may be more complicated. I'll be perfectly happy with the suggestions mentioned above. I am ready to start sending thousand visitors daily to my landing page.

Thanks