From owner-freebsd-www Wed Oct 21 14:33:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14472 for www-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:33:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-www) Received: from baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (baerenklau.de.freebsd.org [195.185.195.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14436 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:32:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id XAA24074; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 23:31:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by campa.panke.de.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA03775; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 05:47:56 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from wosch) Message-ID: <19981021054754.A3756@panke.de.freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 05:47:54 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Doug White , cyber Cc: www@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [cyber@intervisual.dk: Regarding FreeBSD website] References: <19981017014804.A338@panke.de.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 11:41:33AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 1998-10-17 11:41:33 -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > > I just looked at your website, which i actually have done a few times, > > but i really think that you should do somethign with the design. Make > > a little more apealing to people. > > I don't know, I think it looks pretty good now, athough it's time to > rotate the front page articles. Agreed. On a scale from 1 to 10 I would give www.freebsd.org a 6 (1 = useless, 8 = best for a free project, 10 = best for a 20,000,000 Euro budget). > > The thing i was wondering if you where interested in maybe having me > > design a new looking FreeBSD website for you. For free ofcoruse since > > it goes to a good course, namely promoting FreeBSD. > > By all means! Build up a prototype somewhere and point us at it. Don't > forget to change the subpages to mesh with the rest of the design (you > don't have to change *everything*, just enough to give us the flavor). We have a prototype for a better homepage at http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber/bsd/ > My only gripes are: > > . Keep the animated GIFs down. > . Make sure it's operable under Lynx, ie no fancy java navigators and no > sound. :) > > Doug White -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.freebsd.org/~w/