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Date:      Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:31:25 +0100
From:      Nicholas Wieland <nicholas_wieland@yahoo.it>
To:        freebsd-www@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Rework of the FreeBSD website [was:FreeBSD'sVisualIdentity:Outdated?]
Message-ID:  <20050104113125.GB18684@pixie.subbacultcha.home>

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 - Giorgos Keramidas :
> True true :)
> 
> Ideally, we can add the interesting shaded bar by modifying just one
> file: `www/share/sgml/includes.header.sgml'.
> 
> Chris, can we see the source, please?

IMHO one of the problems of freebsd.org is that content is not well
organized, the homepage presents a lot of links and people can be
confused.
I'm not criticizing Chris' work of course, but I'd like to point out
that probably we need to rewrite the page _structure_ and discuss about
content organization before _adding_ things.
The grey bar is ok (and simple to implement with an inline list and a
background-image) but IMHO it duplicates something that doesn't need to
be duplicated, just improved.
What are the goals of the redesign ? I'd argue that first of all FreeBSD
needs a _simple_ site, usable by everyone, and an accessible site (I've
seen a blind system administrator working with FreeBSD and I assure you
that he works 10 times faster than me, so there's no reason to slow him
down with a non-accessible website :)).
Making the site "more professional" is just _one_ possible goal, as far
as I'm concerned not even the most important.

HAND,
  ngw

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