From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Oct 29 19:33:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA24398 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 19:33:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Raccoon.ChipChat.com (Raccoon.ChipChat.com [206.2.228.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA24377 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 19:33:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mrc@ChipChat.com) Received: from Piman-Orange.ChipChat.com (Piman-Orange.ChipChat.com [206.2.228.146]) by Raccoon.ChipChat.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id DAA01121; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 03:33:15 GMT Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 03:33:15 +0000 (GMT) From: Marty Cawthon To: Wolfram Schneider cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New prototype for the FreeBSD homepage In-Reply-To: <19981028151508.A8115@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > A first prototype for the new FreeBSD homepage layout ist available > at http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/data/index3.html > -- > Wolfram Schneider http://freebsd.org/~w/ Guten Tag, Herr Schneider COMMENT I like the looks of this new page. The layout is easy to follow and find things. IDEA FOR CONSIDERATION Perhaps it is worth testing the new pages using "http://validator.w3.org" I was particularly impressed with the idea of "automatically generating an outline" using the HTML headings. As people rely more on search engines to find things, having a search engine 'understand' the logical layout of your web page will become more important for returning and presenting meaningful "hits" to the searcher. The validator site has an "automatic outline" creation option to test the "logical layout" of your web page. A reason to validate to the w3 specifications is to support the concept of Internet Standards that are independent of control by vendors (specifically Microsoft and Netscape). It seems that Open HTML standards might be agreeable to many in the FreeBSD community, and one that the FreeBSD web page might want to explicitly support, perhaps by displaying the "Validated HTML 4" icon. I LIKE THIS IDEA I am working on redesigning our own web pages to be HTML4 valid. The new HTML 4 specifications are forcing me to learn style sheets, and to separate the logical (HTML) markup from the display (style sheet) markup. It is extra work, but for my company's pages I have believe it is the right direction to go. Perhaps also good for FreeBSD... This idea is offered for thought. The new page layout is very handsome, and reflects much thought and work. Marty Cawthon ChipChat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message