User talk:CzechOut

Hi CzechOut.

Thanks for contacting me.

As a matter of fact, I thought about our main/start page too and how to make it look more appealing. It looks very basic and 70s style right now. But first I've concentrated on the contents of the countries to improve, then the intro page. But I collected some ideas throughout the year of how to improve it too.

NAME: I would not change the name. Reason: Our WIKI is about prepaid SIMs with data for mobile (GSM) devices. "prepaidwithdata" sounds just right. People know the name by now. Just to call it prepaidsim or something like that would mean that we cover voice and text messages too, what we don't and what we should not do. There are other sites on the web for that like www.prepaidgsm.net. But we are the only page specializing in prepaid data which gets more and more important and is still absolutely overcharged when you travel internationally.

"Here's what this wiki is about" (grey box, should remain at the start, but could look better): You may better call it our "mission". I don't like that two Apple products are specificly named. It should be neutral, without brand names of any company. So may be we should rephrase it....

This is what I have in mind to improve the start/head page: I know a lot of people who are interested (in buying a local SIM card when travelling) but are afraid because they don't understand the subject. And others who did, were frustrated, because it didn't work for one reason or the other.
 * to make it graphically more appealing with colours and easy to understand graphics linking to sub-pages
 * to make it easier for Newbies to understand the topics and special terms which are used in the countries section
 * to create a general part to introduce people better to the subject of this WIKI

Problem: To archieve all this, it would "overload" one starter page. So I think it would be good for instance to link to a kind of glossary which explains the most terms on linked sub-pages to the main page of the WIKI

My proposals are: The thing is: Someone needs to write the basic structure of this, others can contribute. But according to my experience from the countries section, you get a better result if it is not a patchwork of all but a general proposal with subsequent corrections or contributions by others.
 * 1) to better describe our subject: MOBILE DEVICES (which?), PREPAID (PAYG, what is this?) WITH DATA (why only data?) and to draw a clear line: We don't cover voice or SMS.
 * 2) as we get more and more countries listed, the countries section may need to be rearranged according to region or continent  in alpha order (like prepaidgsm.net) for a better layout
 * 3) there should be a general part about the two prerequisites: UNLOCKED PHONE and FREQUENCIES and a short introduction for Newbies about GSM, 2G, 3G and 4G without going too much in detail.
 * 4) there should be a kind of glossary of terms used frequently in the sections: WIFI; tethering, default data rate, data packages, VoIP, SIM card sizes, APN settings, reloads, Blackberrys........ (only the words should appear on the main page linking to sub-pages explaining or giving links where it is explained)
 * 5) there should be a general troubleshooting: may be in a way of Q&A
 * 6) and last but not least a request to contribute to this WIKI and how to do it.

I have some sections of my proposals already written, some graphics of my ideas already drawn. May be you can think of the formidable task to enhance and implement it graphically. I don't have a lot of experience in graphics of wikia.

May be we can cooperate on this and give a proposal for a better introducing page(s) to the community. Is there a way I can contract you personally? So we can talk about it in more detail.

Greetings from Berlin (will be travelling through Asia end of January) to the Czech Republic

Wolfbln (talk) 10:04, January 8, 2015 (UTC)