Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:28:58 -0500 From: Seth <seth@psychotic.aberrant.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Web page suggestion Message-ID: <20010214092858.A71708@psychotic.aberrant.org> In-Reply-To: <20010214081413.A331@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@freebsd.org on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:14:13AM %2B0000 References: <20010213104922.A70178@psychotic.aberrant.org> <20010214081413.A331@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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I think it's great. One thing I'd add in the "Current release" box
is a link to a page I drafted & set to Jordan yesterday. Under
"Announcement/Release Notes/Errata", how about a "Download Now" href?
I've attached my original draft; there's some redundancy in there since
I had the current version w/ announcement, etc. on the secondary page.
Maybe it makes sense to repeat it; if not, trash the top part.
Again, please forgive the HTML -- I'm not a web designer.
Seth.
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 08:14:13AM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:49:22AM -0500, Seth wrote:
> > I'm not suggesting that the information isn't there already -- it is.
> > But the release information is completely separate from the downloads,
> > and it makes sense to me to have all that relevant information in
> > one place, highlighted for quick navigation.
>
> Attached are two files that implement a first, quick, cut at this.
>
> The first is a patch to www/en/index.sgml. Apply this and test if you
> have a local copy of the www repository.
>
> The second is the index.html that this generates, for those that don't
> have a repo to hand, and just want to see what it looks like (keep in
> mind that you won't get any of the images).
>
> Comments?
>
> N
> --
> Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95.
> Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission,
> hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless.
> Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard.
> -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery
> Index: index.sgml
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/www/en/index.sgml,v
> retrieving revision 1.102
> diff -u -r1.102 index.sgml
> --- index.sgml 2001/01/25 22:20:23 1.102
> +++ index.sgml 2001/02/14 08:11:30
> @@ -128,8 +128,26 @@
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