Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:09:25 +0100 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> Subject: Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated? Message-ID: <41CC3F35.7010304@sitetronics.com> In-Reply-To: <41CBE567.9080006@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCENBEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <41CBE567.9080006@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> I think there's more FreeBSD installations than Apple installations, >> way, way more. Obscurity is in the eye of the beholder. And talk is >> cheap. The FreeBSD documentation team has already asked the FreeBSD >> community to do a site redesign, see here: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/current.html#website-css >> >> Nobody has stepped up to do it. Since your so hot to redesign the >> site why don't you e-mail them and get going on doing it instead of >> talking about it? > > > Errr... Not so. Admittedly, this was posted just a few days ago, but > people are working on CSS-izing the FreeBSD.org web site: > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2004-December/006616.html > > Elsewhere on this thread there has been some talk about organizing a > design competition to see who can come up with the best concept for the > site. Strikes me that a good way to do that would be along the lines of > this competition to redesign the W3.org site: > > http://w3mix.web-graphics.com/entries.php > > ie. take the existing content and write a style sheet to present it in > the best possible way. > > Cheers, > > Matthew I'm going to be drawing up the rules for the competition soon. I think the best way to do it would indeed be to just create an HTML 4.01 Strict-compliant page and ask people to do CSS for it -- as might be done for csszengarden.com. Kind regards, Devon H. O'Dell
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