From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 21 11: 9:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from servo.sjmarketing.com (adsl-64-173-218-10.dsl.renocs.nvbell.net [64.173.218.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE31637B435 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:08:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.95] (lan95 [192.168.1.95]) by servo.sjmarketing.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g2LJ8fg52358 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:08:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bean@freebsd.org) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.1.3108 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:08:36 -0800 Subject: Re: Review of the FreeBSD advocacy site From: Bean To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3C9A24D0.8624ABF8@dnr.state.ak.us> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I agree about leaving out any fancy crap, we don't need it for this type of content-driven site, and I would never dream of putting flash or DHTML or anything on it either. I do this for a living (mostly backend stuff), I test in all browsers I have available to me on Mac/Winduhs/BSD/etc..., and I won't make it all girly and pink, I promise :) -Bean > From: Brian Raynes > Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:22:08 -0900 > To: freebsd advocacy , Bean > Subject: Re: Review of the FreeBSD advocacy site > > Johnson David wrote: >> >> On Thursday 21 March 2002 10:01 am, Bean wrote: >>> I think the entire FreeBSD project site needs work... And I've been given >>> the go-ahead to start working on it in my free time (what's that?!), with >>> final approval from the core of course. Do you guys have any suggestions on >>> features/design you'd like to see in a redesign? >> >> Make sure it works in Konqueror. No fancy Java, Javascript, Flash, etc. We >> want it to look pretty, but content is what counts. >> > > I would strongly second that request. When I want information, I like > fast, relevant and current. Fancy graphics and pictures that slow > things down are irritating and do not usually add information. > Within those parameters, anything you can do to make it attractive is > good. If you can add real content that helps with advocacy, and make it > easy for visitors to find, that would be even better. > > Brian Raynes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message