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- design and appearance (nice looking, but not too complicated)
- ease of navigation
- A more standard set of top-level pages (we are very flexible on how this is done, the end goal is a better site). For example (in no particular order):
- Download
- Products/Solutions
- About Us
- News/Events
- Support
- Initiatives
- a plus: willing to help install/integrate new site into our Subversion tree
- See also the SiteContestDiscussion
Caveat
We had a very successful logo design contest and the winner was used, but we do reserve the right to declare the current site the winner if none of the submissions are better than the current site. We very much doubt that will be the case...