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Date:      Wed, 29 Dec 2004 19:30:55 +0100
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com>
Cc:        Josef El-Rayes <josef@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Rework of the FreeBSD website [was: FreeBSD's Visual Identity:Outdated?]
Message-ID:  <20041229183054.GE69078@eddie.nitro.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20041229182119.GB90957@freebsdmall.com>
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On 2004.12.29 10:21:19 -0800, Murray Stokely wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:25:19AM +0100, Chris Zumbrunn wrote:
> > >looks very interesting, is the grey border,
> > >which carries the links to subcategories,
> > >under the headline image an image or created via css?
> >=20
> > Could be either. CSS would be better - but an image would maybe be=20
> > easier/quicker to implement. The grey bar could also be a background=20
> > image in a table cell. Eventually, it certainly should be CSS (just=20
> > like everything else).
>=20
> The top navigation bar does look very nice, but we've still got the
> very ugly orangeish vertical boxes on either side of the main page.

But if you remove the orange boxes something has to replace them...

> There are too many links for one thing, so I imagine a large number of
> the sublinks on the left hand side should just go away.  Is there any
> chance you can try to keep working with this design and improve the
> presentation of the links currently in the left hand navigation bar on
> the main page?

That is actually exactly what I have been looking into, removing
redundant stuff on the front page.

My work-in-progress is at http://simon.nitro.dk/freebsd/webexp/ ,
though this is still far from complete.

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Simon L. Nielsen

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