From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jan 3 20:33:45 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA21291 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 20:33:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA21286 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 20:33:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (ppp-109-132.mtl.aei.ca [207.107.109.132]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA29985; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 23:32:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3690441F.2DF78A10@aei.ca> Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 23:31:27 -0500 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sue Blake CC: Wolfram Schneider , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Nik Clayton , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible change to first page on site References: <12300.915050871@zippy.cdrom.com> <368D5457.B4FD24F5@aei.ca> <19990102130428.B26221@panke.de.freebsd.org> <19990102234426.42040@welearn.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sue Blake wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 01:04:28PM +0100, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > > On 1999-01-01 18:03:51 -0500, Malartre wrote: > > > > > One last thing, why not changing Getting FreeBSD to Installing FreeBSD? > > > I'm not an English expert(hehe), but "Installing" or something with > > > "Install" would be better than "Getting". > > > > Good idea. > > Getting FreeBSD sounds safer to me. > > First timers won't follow the link about installing. They think > download-then-install so it seems obvious to them that they have to > "get" it first, or at least check out where it is and how big the > freebsd.zip file is :-) Remove "get" and expect more of them to write > to -questions asking how to get it. Leave "Getting FreeBSD" there, and > we can trick some of them into actually going to the installation > instructions. > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- Ok Sue, I'll follow that way: I have a demo of what it could be to really answer "damn, where do they hide freebsd.zip!". http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/var/ http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/var/newbies/whatis.html http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/var/newbies/nozip.html The two first link in the FreeBSD! section are made by me, and are not perfect, but has I said, this is just a demo :-) -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.lowrent.org/freebsd/malartre/ [LowRent.Org is down...] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message