From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jan 3 21:14:26 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA24371 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 21:14:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA24359 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 21:14:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.0) id QAA17331; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 16:13:39 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19990104161332.62077@welearn.com.au> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 16:13:32 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: Malartre 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> <3690441F.2DF78A10@aei.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <3690441F.2DF78A10@aei.ca>; from Malartre on Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 11:31:27PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 11:31:27PM -0500, Malartre wrote: > 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 :-) You have some good ideas there. I particularly like the "Quick Answers" in whatis.html, but I fear that while they will make good sense to microsoft refugees they will cause seasoned FreeBSD users to cringe :-) I'd love to see something short, direct and windows-understandable like this, close to the web site's entry point. My other approach was to give the misunderstanding strays something more readable that will keep everyone out of each other's hair long enough to get a few things into perspective. Draft: http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/win.html -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message