From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 13:24:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0FFC16A4CE; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:24:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from tatiana.utanet.at (tatiana.utanet.at [213.90.36.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E9C043FA3; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:24:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from josef@daemon.li) Received: from patricia.utanet.at ([213.90.36.8]) by tatiana.utanet.at with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1AMDGV-0000Tk-00; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:20:03 +0100 Received: from dsl-26-93.utaonline.at ([81.189.26.93] helo=jenny.daemon.li) by patricia.utanet.at with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1AMDDi-0000sL-00; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:17:11 +0100 Received: by jenny.daemon.li (Postfix, from userid 1005) id DF5E027D; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:17:50 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:17:50 +0100 From: Josef El-Rayes To: Tom Rhodes Message-ID: <20031118211750.GA930@jenny.daemon.li> References: <3FBA5699.707@potentialtech.com> <20031118123758.507c4a96.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20031118203630.GA401@arthur.nitro.dk> <20031118154615.3484bd1e.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031118154615.3484bd1e.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Reply-Path: j.el-rayes@daemon.li X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE cc: Ceri Davies cc: doc@FreeBSD.org cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" Subject: Re: Redirecting the "Send a bug report" link to the article on filing PRs X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: j.el-rayes@daemon.li List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 21:24:13 -0000 Tom Rhodes wrote: > Perhaps the front page could do with a bit of cleanup, like you mentioned. i agree here, it is really a bit too much of information and links on the frontpage. in my opinion we should try to reduce the number of links on the left and right columns. do we really need all of them? what if we just link News, Software, Documentation and so on, which are itself subfrontpages with some introduction and then further references to these parts of the homepage. imho the introductionary words on the homepage, is also a bit too much. i would reduce it to "what is freebsd" and a summary of the other points. the included links in the text give the opportunity to acheive more information where/when the visitor wants too. > I've been tossing around the idea of adding a technologies menu, and > then listing some of the ports (ports as in ia64, etc) below it. if i have not missunderstood releng, the "production release" block will vanish soon, then there would be some free space which could be used for these ports. > Perhaps I'll whip up a replacement and send out a patch, see what > everyone else thinks of it. Sound reasonable? i am looking forward to see your patch :) greets, josef