From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 3 04:59:40 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 2F73C16A4E2; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 04:59:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (ms-2.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC50E43FDF; Wed, 3 Dec 2003 04:59:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@unixpages.org) Received: from r220-1 (r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.31]) by ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.12 (built Feb 13 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HPB00445KWZV3@ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de>; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:48:36 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.RWTH-Aachen.DE ([134.130.3.1]) by r220-1 (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:48:35 +0100 (MET) Received: from haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (postfix@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.92]) hB3CmYsU029114; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:48:34 +0100 (MET) Received: from gondor.middleearth (gondor.middleearth [192.168.1.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16DE1D; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:48:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by gondor.middleearth (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E5579461C; Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:48:32 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:48:32 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer In-reply-to: <20031202211030.1631d5be.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Tom Rhodes Message-id: <20031203124832.GI71732@unixpages.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary="FUFe+yI/t+r3nyH4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-PGP-Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D References: <20031202160640.1df85804.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20031202232141.GG71732@unixpages.org> <20031202211030.1631d5be.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> cc: FreeBSD-www@freebsd.org cc: FreeBSD-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Round two of the front page structure changes... X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 12:59:40 -0000 --FUFe+yI/t+r3nyH4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:10:30PM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 00:21:41 +0100 > Christian Brueffer wrote: >=20 > >=20 > > I like it, but I think there are still way too many links in the > > sidebar. >=20 > Yes, too many can be overwhelming. I'm thinking of ways to get > around this. If we do site cleanup, then perhaps we can break > things up a bit. Like this: >=20 > Front page > Support ---- America -- links, documentation, ... > Other -- links to sites, translated docs, ... >=20 I have to think about this some more, I don't think your example above catches it quite right. > >=20 > > As you already notes, the 'Vendors' section actually belongs to the > > 'Software' section. 'Documentation' and 'Support' could be consolidated > > into a 'Resources' section. >=20 > That was kind of what I thought too, and I think Mark noted that > in either private/public mail to me. Like on the IBM/Microsoft/Intel > site, you visit the support section (usually support.domain.xxx) and > they have downloads, documentation, software/hardware errata, > bug/knowledge base... There may be something to that idea... >=20 Yes, something like that would be nice. >=20 > >=20 > > Maybe we should put the links to language specific web pages in a more > > prominent position (and list all available languages on the front page). > >=20 > > In general, we should unclutter the side bar. IMHO, NetBSD and OpenBSD > > have done a good job in this regard. 4 or 5 big subsections which > > roughly categorize the links to subsection pages, which can contain all > > the other stuff. >=20 > My goal explained! A good one or two 'key words' which link to a > large area containing everything they would want. Easy to navigate, > tons of useful information, no hunting around an endless wave of > links to find one simple answer... Not that our site is that bad, > yet... >=20 Good to see we're on the same line on this one. Haven't read most of the other thread, so if I just parrotted what you already said, sorry about that one :-) - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --FUFe+yI/t+r3nyH4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/zdugbHYXjKDtmC0RAnrsAKD/MHu9PdDow3Ip6tbC3IdBrL/8pACdEiYN 93nX8+zmKqfGjsFUatZA7pc= =boxR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FUFe+yI/t+r3nyH4--