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From: schneider@zib.de (Wolfram Schneider)
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To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Web page needs more thought
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Julian Elischer writes:
>I can never find the information I'm looking for on the web pages
>because nothing is where I'd expect it to be..

Well known problem. Not only on our FreeBSD home page.


>the top level page doesn't give enough hints as to where things are..
>for example..
>I just spent 5 minutes looking for the CVS tree  web interface..
>I know I've found it before under some 
>arcane paragraph but I've just given up because I can't find it..

It took me 10 seconds to find the CVS tree  web interface.
Go to the home page, click on 'Quick Index' and search in
your browser for the string CVS. Done.


>the  top level page is REALLY cryptic in that there are not enough
>examples of what is under what.

'Quick Index' is a dirty hack, but the index should help
in most cases.

Wolfram