OpenID Site Revamped
9. October 2007 – 20:04 byLast night the OpenID.net website has been revamped and eventually it is looking nice to end users as well. It is running on WordPress now, clean but not sterile layout and the familiar orange colour is still there, of course. Good job by the folks at Vidoop.
Though even more important than obvious things like colour and layout is content; especially content for end users. The old site was targeting mostly developers. If you were looking for an OpenID provider you had to dig deeper in the wiki. I always felt a little bit uncomfortable linking to that site in my articles on OpenID because people who are new to OpenID and want to know more about it could have been easily overwhelmed with the tech stuff and probably been alienated. The new site provides links to a page explaining what OpenID is about, a list of providers and a page explaining where people can use OpenID.
People who are looking for the old content of the site will find it at wiki.openid.net.
All in all well done and definitely an important step to provide a resource for end users.
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